Felony Law School Statute 
The Crime Report
MARCH 7, 2022
More than 60 crimes fall under the hate crime statute in New York, from simple menacing to possession of a biological weapon. The state data shows that the more serious felony arrests for hate crimes yielded felony convictions — whether as a hate crime or not — in 19 percent of the cases closed citywide between 2015 and 2020.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
United States felt like a legislation class in law school, with various canons of statutory construction being bandied about. Dubin concerns the reach of the federal aggravated identity theft statute and whether a person must steal another’s identity to commit the crime. But Fisher did not stop there.
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The Crime Report
APRIL 14, 2022
Proponents of the Second Amendment note that the Constitution expressly makes clear the right to bear arms “shall not be infringed,” and opponents continued to challenge the law. Before attending law school, Smotherman was a police officer. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Idaho with a B.A.
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.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. It reportedly includes claims of felony and misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint, but didn’t name individual suspects. That may be the meaning of opportunity to some, or the definition of insanity to others — but it is no kidnapping.
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. So, the courts do an about face, give up that strategy, and begin prosecuting individual workers, instead of groups, under broad statutes like drunk and disorderly or vagrancy.
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.
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