JURIST
JUNE 27, 2023
Three Virginia citizens disqualified from voting due to felony convictions joined a nonprofit organization to file a lawsuit Monday in federal court against Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and several state elections officials. The action challenges the felony disenfranchisement provision of the Virginia Constitution.
The Crime Report
APRIL 14, 2022
These amendments would also allow federal prosecution of those individuals legally carrying a firearm in a school zone but engaged in other felonious activity with which the GFSZA was concerned, such as drug dealing, gang activity, or criminal violence. “In He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Idaho with a B.A.
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The Crime Report
MARCH 3, 2022
Pardons are also the only state relief mechanism in America recognized by federal immigration law that would allow “a non-citizen convicted of an aggravated felony to avoid mandatory deportation and remove the conviction-related bar to citizenship.”. The full report can be accessed here.
The Crime Report
JANUARY 9, 2023
In Virginia, the minimum age to charge someone with a felony is 14 years old. In 2021 in Rigby, Idaho, a 12-year-old girl shot three people during a planned attack at Rigby Middle School. In many states, the legal system assumes that young children are not capable of the thought and planning that goes into committing a violent crime.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 8, 2024
Tori Madden) In recent years, property rights disputes have made headlines at the court — notably last year’s dispute between Idaho homeowners Michael and Chantell Sackett and the EPA, in which the justices sided with the property owners and curtailed the Clean Water Act’s protections for wetlands. Smith was charged with five felony counts.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 23, 2022
Four states—Kansas, Utah, Idaho, and Montana—have eliminated the defense entirely and only an estimated one percent of all felony cases involve an insanity plea. However, the defense argued that this was not indifference but insanity. It is fairly rare to win a case on the grounds of an insanity defense.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2023
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Idaho Wednesday to prevent the enforcement of its law criminalizing doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors. The lawsuit names Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, the prosecuting attorney for a county in Idaho and members of the Idaho Code Commission as defendants.
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