The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That’s a lesson worth applying to current strategies addressing the epidemic of gun violence, writes Benjamin Levin , an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. The relationship between anti-gun and anti-drug initiatives becomes clear when looking at felony convictions.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Smotherman also recommends specific amendments that would allow federal prosecution—and thus generally higher sentences—of those illegally carrying firearms in school zones, punishing only those who are not “law-abiding citizens.”. Before attending law school, Smotherman was a police officer.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

United States felt like a legislation class in law school, with various canons of statutory construction being bandied about. Share In many ways, Monday’s oral argument in Dubin v. Dubin concerns the reach of the federal aggravated identity theft statute and whether a person must steal another’s identity to commit the crime.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 19, 2021

Earlonne Woods joins a growing group — including ex-judges, a prominent law school dean, a former U.S. The Supreme Court signed off on the commutation in 2018 , consent that is constitutionally required for prisoners convicted of multiple felonies.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 28, 2022

Schuman, an assistant professor of law at Pennsylvania State University Law School, argues that even if authorities accepted calls for an end to imposing prison terms for technical violations of probation or parole, criminal conduct would still account for as many as nine out of ten violations in some jurisdictions.

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ALPS

AUGUST 4, 2022

So I am a recent transfer to the law school, but I would say probably, more importantly, I’m a proud aunt, first-generation law student, and first-generation college student. Talk about law school, talk about the bar, and just let students know that this is an attainable goal. Introduce yourself.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

The Deputy Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Porter is also on the faculty of University of California (Irvine) Law School, though listed as “on leave.” While these ethical complaints are difficult to maintain under the generous rules of the House, Porter’s conduct warrants condemnation.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

It reportedly includes claims of felony and misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint, but didn’t name individual suspects. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

My practice areas include Family Law and Criminal Defense. On the criminal side, I handle low level misdemeanors up to felonies. I randomly received a phone call from an old friend from law school asking if I could analyze a murder case on Court TV. I handle anything from child custody cases to divorce to paternity.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Georgia will take the justices back to law-school basics – the case could be a question on a law-school examination in criminal law. Share Tuesday’s argument in McElrath v. The facts are simple. Damian McElrath was prosecuted for several crimes after he stabbed his adoptive mother, Diane McElrath, to death in 2012.

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OilandGasLawyer

JULY 7, 2022

In three trials in 1935 and 1936, three all-white juries convicted members of the gang of felony crimes against African American victims, based exclusively on the testimony of black victims and witnesses and the Rangers’ investigations. First, a little more about Allred. He served as Texas’ Attorney General 1931-34 and Governor 1934-39.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2022

The study by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School focused on the results of reforms introduced in Harris County, Texas, which was required by federal consent decree to change bail policy for misdemeanor charges five years ago. “We from 2015 to May 2022.

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The Crime Report

MAY 20, 2021

Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. In Texas, there’s a continuing dispute over whether the standards for death penalty defense apply if prosecutors seek life without parole instead.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2023

It instructed jurors that they would sit through witness testimony and review evidence by a prosecutor, and then “discuss with each other the evidence and the legal instructions” before voting on whether or not there is probable cause to indict each felony suspect. asked Mark Bederow, a criminal defense lawyer and former Manhattan prosecutor.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

Hutchinson recounted on Twitter how he taught a difficult lesson at Emory Law School on how “Justice Scalia was basically a Klansman.” Both felony murder and the killing of an officer are commonly used as aggravating circumstances in capital cases. ”

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. You have a situation where somebody who is a perfectly well intentioned student coming from the lower or the middle classes and wants to change the world with a law degree.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Indeed, after years of denial, some Democratic members and the journalists are now admitting that Hunter Biden clearly broke the law. The Weiss investigation, however, languished for years even as some of us were pointing out that the statute of limitations was about to pass on felonies. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Horvitz & Levy is co-counsel for amicus UC Irvine law schools Consumer Law Clinic.) The issues as summarized by court staff are: “(1) Does the Three Strikes law (Pen. b)(i), 1170.12) violate the separation of powers doctrine by requiring prosecutors to plead and prove prior qualifying felony convictions? (2)

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At the Lectern

MARCH 11, 2022

” The opinion also mentioned the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Covid Coverage Litigation Tracker website. It noted that the issue has been extensively litigated in the federal courts and in other states, and said its holding was consistent with “[t]he overwhelming majority of federal district court cases.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

Rather than prosecuting Hunter Biden for a felony in lying on a federal gun form, it is sending him into a diversion program due to an addiction that he says he was able to break years ago. The Justice Department also appears to have latched on to the 7% solution.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. She locked into a debate with the man’s public defender about the concept of mass incarceration, which she does not believe in.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

Sherif Girgis is an associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. Dobbs said early abortions were unlawful in a graver sense: They were treated like felonies under felony-murder doctrine — as the dissent quietly concedes (in footnote 3). Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Promising law school graduates who aspire to become a judge often feel pressure to go to a corporate firm or a prosecutor’s office to preserve that option. and spent 21 years as a Felony District Court Judge. We need to change that. Biden has embraced the need for more public defenders on the bench.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

Two IRS whistleblowers recently confirmed that the expiration of potential tax felony crimes was raised with Weiss and the Department of Justice (DOJ). Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School. Hunter Biden finally is important.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 27, 2022

. * A nice win before SCOTUS kills affirmative action: According to the ABA, this year’s class of entering law students is the most diverse in history, with about 37% first-years identifying as racial or ethnic minorities. A jury convicted rapper Tory Lanez of three felonies in the shooting of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. as “only jealousy.”. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 3, 2025

Superior Court , another case under SB 1437 , which limited criminal liability for felony murder and eliminated it for murder under the natural-and-probable-consequences doctrine. Murder resentencing dissenting vote. Justice Liu also recorded a dissenting vote from the denial of review in Price v. that the defendant should be resentenced.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Where Bowman’s offense was treated as a misdemeanor, Hunter’s offense is a felony. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) for pulling a fire alarm before a major vote. Here Swalwell played a key role in obstructing a major House investigation.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2023

There already are questions over special treatment potentially being given to Hunter in the form of alleged felonies being allowed to expire, warnings about planned federal raids, and sweetheart deals. One of the four most obvious potential articles of impeachment that I laid out in my prior testimony was obstruction.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2023

There is no question that the best course in dealing with a felonious president is to first remove the president from office through the impeachment process and then indict the former president in the wake of the Senate conviction. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2024

That alone will be an historic moment for Congress to declare that the son of a sitting president may have committed a federal felony. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that. ” ) In other words, the natural and probable consequences doctrine may apply to felony murder, but it is not properly applied to attempted murder. There are other crimes that have been proven. Those are plenty to start with.”.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Yes, the man who has routinely knocked down felony crimes to misdemeanors — or dismissals — actually suggested that he had no alternative but to charge Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records. He just filed the first charges against a former president and refused to specify the basis for the felonies.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

Trump also knows that while he cannot afford to lose one felony count, Smith cannot afford to lose one juror. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Others claimed Trump committed “felony bribery” by fundraising for Republican senators when he was about to be impeached. Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is the column: Hunter Biden returned to court today on the felony indictment for his possession of a handgun, including allegations that he lied on an Oct.12, Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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