JURIST

APRIL 19, 2024

Additionally, the individual must leave the state within 72 hours following conviction or release from custody, with subsequent offenses classified as felonies, punishable by up to two years in prison, a fine of up to $1,000 or both. Proponents of the bill argue that it is essential to uphold the rule of law and protect state borders.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Now-retired prosecutor Ralph Petty earned a living at the Midland County District Attorney’s Office in West Texas. He also moonlighted as a law clerk for the same judges who presided over his cases. Overall, Petty simultaneously served as a prosecutor and law clerk at least 300 times. Photo by Clyde Robinson via Flickr.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2022

The man who sold the gun used in an attack at a Texas synagogue on January 15, 2022, Thursday pled guilty to federal charges. Henry “Michael” Dwight Williams pled guilty to felony possession of a firearm. Akram then used the pistol to hold four people hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Texas.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

On the same day, one man was sentenced to ten years in prison and a second pled guilty to felony charges. Kellye Sorelle, a Texas attorney, is charged with conspiracy to obstruct Congress’s certification of the Electoral College votes, and obstruction of Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The protestors were charged under a new and highly controversial anti-protest law that activists say was designed specifically to target environmentalist protestors. The protestors faced up to two years in prison under the law and fines of up to $500,000.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Crumbley will be sentenced at a later date but faces up to 15 years in prison under Michigan law. In January, t he US Department of Justice issued a report detailing failures in law enforcement’s response to a May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. School shootings continue to be a problem in the US.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 21, 2022

Advocates are pushing states to create updated felony standards, arguing that outdated laws, which vary wildly from state to state, are unfairly making felons out of people who committed minor crimes such as stealing a pair of shoes, reports Axios.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Do state laws permitting individuals to carry concealed weapons undermine federal legislation banning weapons in the vicinity of schools? Resolving the contradiction will require an amendment, according to a paper in the Texas Tech Law Review. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Yet criminal law has historically excluded Black women from voting by regulating when a person convicted of a crime may be eligible to vote, argues Washington and Lee University School of Law professor Carla Laroche. Black women are leading the fight to secure and safeguard voting rights in the U.S. Plenty of U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 29, 2021

The latest such case involves the arrest of two teenage girls in Texas after they removed a gold necklace off the chest of a dead man found in a drainage ditch. The state law states that a theft is a felony if: (A)?the We often discuss novel criminal charges or cases. The charge is “theft from a human corpse.”

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The Crime Report

MAY 20, 2021

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

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An increasing number of Americans now believe US Supreme Court decision-making is based more on political ideology than the rule of law. In 2005, 22 American states, including Texas, permitted executions of juveniles. In fact, Texas by far led the nation in killing juveniles with 13 juvenile executions.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Ross , involving a dormant commerce clause challenge to a California law prohibiting the sale of pork unless the pigs from which it was made (virtually all of which come from outside the state) were raised consistent with the state’s restrictive standards. Case in point: Texas v. Texas , a capital case from the Lone Star State.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Since the Supreme Court struck down New York’s longstanding gun law, lower courts have ruled heavily against restricting guns, reports Jacob Gershman in the Wall Street Journal. . Bruen, held that New York’s law requirement of a license to carry concealed weapons in public places was unconstitutional. .”

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

s life on March 24, 2023, in an adult Texas prison facility speaks volumes about the ineptitude of the nation’s penal system and the conservative ideological politics of its judicial system in dealing with juvenile offenders. That earned him five additional years in the Texas adult penal system. That may be. Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment (as incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment) guarantees criminal defendants the right to a unanimous jury, it meant a 12-person jury — not a six-person jury, which is all that Florida affords some felony defendants. Returning Relists 74 Pinehurst LLC v. Maryland and Napue v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

I figured I could come up with a decent law and hopefully the federal government might work to make it national.”. That law brings the total number of states with some form of a gun storage law to eleven. Gun Safety pledge offered at Austin Texas program. 268,942 Guns Missing in Texas.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2021

Warren borrowed the car from a Wolfforth, Texas dealer in the summer of 2019 before allegedly he driving the vehicle over to the bank and handing over a fast-food bad and a note reading “This is a f—— robbery. b) An offense under this section is a felony of the first degree. (c) Play with me and die. AGGRAVATED ROBBERY. (a)

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

Even worse, those laws exacerbate labor shortages by taking willing workers out of the job market who could fill essential jobs in critical fields. During the 2021 legislative session, 10 legislatures made significant progress in adopting laws that expand licensing opportunities for people with criminal histories.

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The Crime Report

MAY 25, 2021

Informing juries and judges about the cost of incarcerating a defendant would help reduce mass incarceration and recidivism, and curb “over-punishing,” according to a Texas law professor. This results in what commentators have accurately described as a ‘correctional free lunch.’.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

There have been more than 250 new laws passed in that 18-month period alone — amazing state efforts to roll back the malign effects of the 30-year crime war,” the CCRC details. On a more broad spectrum, a pardon may be necessary to enable anyone to run for elected office, or simply secure a professional or business license.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

The study cited a survey of people recently admitted to prison in Texas, which showed that 66 percent preferred incarceration over 10 years of probation. As part of the law, the reduced offenses came with relatively short and unsupervised local probations. percent capacity in 2019.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

Share The court handed a win to a former-city council member in Texas on Thursday, clearing the way for her federal civil rights claim to move forward. Gonzalez’s complaint noted that she was the only person charged in the past 10 years under the state’s government records law for temporarily misplacing government documents.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

. “We don’t have strong enough laws,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald told reporters at a Dec. That law doesn’t require the gun purchaser to use the safety device sold with their firearm. And, there are no federal laws mandating gun storage practices after the owner takes position of a legally purchased firearm.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , to be argued on Tuesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether a private individual can sue his state-agency employer for violating the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994. Le Roy Torres served as both a Texas state trooper and a U.S. Share In Torres v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upholding a similar Iowa law. By contrast, the petition in Mallory v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 18, 2022

in 2018, but Florida law requires that a jury determine a sentence of either death or life in prison for capital felonies, the Associated Press reports. Patrick Crusius, the suspect in the mass shooting that killed 23 at an El Paso, Texas shooting in 2019, is still awaiting trial.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Gene Deveraux was sentenced to 100 years in Montana prison for multiple sexual felonies against his former wife and stepdaughter. Earlier this year, the court declined to hear an appeal by Kristopher Love, a Black man on death row in Texas who argued that the seating of a racially biased juror in his case was structural error.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2022

Representatives of four sellers of body armor said they saw some rise in sales following recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., According to sellers, people convicted of a violent felony are banned from buying body armor, but regulatory enforcement of that law is lax. reports NPR. are few and far between.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 15, 2022

On our Broadcast Law Blog, we wrote last week about the FCC’s current role in regulating the Internet ( Blog Post ). The Media Bureau deleted FM channels at Millerton, Oklahoma; Powers, Oregon; Mount Enterprise, Texas; Paint Rock, Texas; Hardwick, Vermont; and Meeteetse, Wyoming.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

That, the justices said, violated the Constitution’s requirement that Congress provide “uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.” Smith was charged with five felony counts. Texas , scheduled for argument on Jan. Does the U.S. But, before Smith’s case could go to trial, Rast left the department.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Supreme Court recently agreed to consider a case that is expected to define the scope of federal identity theft law. David Dubin was the managing partner of PARTS, a psychology practice in Texas. The post Supreme Court to Clarify What Constitutes Identity Theft appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Facts of the Case.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday against a physician for providing gender transition care to 21 minor patients, in violation of a Texas law prohibiting gender transition medical interventions.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2021

He was tracked down in Texas and arrested due to outstanding warrants for felony possession of a firearm, felony domestic assault, and felony drug possession. The police also previously stated that Hall gave a false name to officers after Floyd’s death and then left Minneapolis.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

We also have a much higher rate of plea bargain cases than the rest of the world: almost 20 percent higher than just about any other common law country. From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. DC: The law exists to protect capital.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

That court believed that Arizona’s sentencing law was sufficiently different from the others the Supreme Court had considered that Simmons did not apply. It relied on the fact that, under state law, capital defendants could receive a life sentence that would make them eligible for “release” after 25 years. Texas , 21-5050.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. percent of violent felony arrests were of suspects with open cases in 2019. When bail reform was passed in April, 2019, there were 7,800 people on Rikers Island.

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