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Indiana House approves legislation to eliminate handgun licensing

JURIST

The Indiana House of Representatives approved legislation Monday that would eliminate handgun licensing in the state. Current Indiana law requires individuals to apply for a handgun license. “Unlawful carrying of a handgun” could also become a Level 5 felony under certain conditions. .”

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Public Defender Shortages Reaching Critical Levels: Report

The Crime Report

What’s more, legal experts say that these shortages have been the operational norm for years across our country as a whole, Law360 reports. . To that end, the reports did not reach conclusions about how many more public defenders were needed in Colorado, Indiana and Missouri, Law360 details.

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Appeals court rules father’s parental rights can’t be terminated because of his parole conditions

The Crime Report

In 2014, the father, who is not named in the opinion, was convicted of two felonies involving sexual conduct with a 14-year-old in Indiana. The State of Indiana Parole Board denied all of them. He spent three years in prison before being paroled in 2017. Click here to read the ruling.

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Injustice With Impunity: A Texas Tale

The Crime Report

Two decades later, Wilson’s felony record continues to block her lifelong dream of becoming a nurse in Texas—a state that denies licensure to people convicted of specific crimes, including drug offenses. Neither of these legal doctrines would stop the government from policing itself. Supreme Court.

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Chiefs: Dropping Gun Permits Threatens Public Safety—and Officers’ Lives

The Crime Report

The latest to sound the alarm was my good friend, Deborah Daniels, a former federal prosecutor in Indiana, which passed permitless carry earlier this spring. No law enforcement official I’ve spoken with thinks these policies are a good idea.

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The first relists of October Term 2022

SCOTUSBlog

Arizona he asks the Supreme Court to overrule a 1970 precedent holding that states can use juries as small as six jurors to try defendants for felonies. Currently, six states provide for criminal juries of six or eight jurors: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Utah. 28 conference). Khorrami v. 28 conference).