The Crime Report

MAY 8, 2023

Franklin County in Washington state is facing a lawyer shortage as newly booked inmates are not being assigned defense attorneys for the last two months, Cameron Probert reports for Tri-City Herald. Judges also have the power to assign private law firm attorneys, with the counties having to foot the bill.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

The new law allows those accused of a crime to ask for an extra court hearing if they believe they acted in self-defense. Individuals charged with a felony or class A misdemeanor can ask for this hearing, unless they are accused of attacking a police officer. In Washington, D.C., The officer exhausted all other options.

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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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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2022

Several new states have joined those previously identified as reform leaders, and half a dozen other states have made “substantial improvements” to existing laws, according to the report. The survey and report card are the latest in a regular series of evaluations of progress in the nation’s restorative rights laws, produced by CCRC.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

they found a stash of weapons along with more than 10 fake federal badges and credentials, some of which had Downey’s name and photos, according to the Washington Post. A felony conviction would force Downey out of office. After authorities executed a search warrant on Brian Downey, a deputy mayor in Rockland, N.Y.,

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2021

Current Louisiana law imposes criminal penalties upon the first conviction of possession of 14 grams—a half-ounce—or less: a fine of up to $300, imprisonment for up to 15 days, or both. The proposed law seeks to reduce those penalties. Further, penalties would not increase to the felony level with subsequent arrests.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2022

The jury found Robertson guilty of five felonies: obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds while carrying a dangerous weapon, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building while carrying a dangerous weapon and tampering with a document or proceedings.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 12, 2021

over the death of her teenage son who was fatally shot by police in 2017, Christina Lopez spent thousands on guns, law enforcement said, and gave them to another son, 14, who was selling them to fellow gang members, reports the Washington Post. After reaching a $4.9 million settlement with the city of Fresno, Calif.,

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The Crime Report

JUNE 28, 2021

Because the pandemic paused jury trials, many defendants will have spent more time jailed pretrial than incarcerated for their sentence, The Washington Post reports. Carroll of the University of Alabama School of Law. Superior Court on felony charges as of mid-June. Some 582 people were detained awaiting trial in D.C.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

” The change coincides with a time when more people are recognizing the failure of draconian drug laws and the infamous war on drugs, said David Cloud, research director of Amend at UCSF School of Medicine. ” Dan Satterberg, Prosecuting Attorney at King County in Washington State, agreed.

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JURIST

MARCH 25, 2022

Under US law, foreign nationals cannot make contributions to a federal campaign. According to evidence presented during the trial, Fortenberry lied to and misled authorities during an interview at his Lincoln home in March 2019 and a follow-up meeting four months later in Washington. US District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

This year’s rich harvest brings the total number of criminal record reforms enacted in the past three years to over 400 separate laws,” the report said, celebrating what it said was a bipartisan commitment to end “unwarranted discrimination” against the formerly incarcerated. not disenfranchising at all).

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2022

A large swath of Washington, DC shut down recently after a gunman fired dozens of rounds from an apartment window toward a nearby school. No law enforcement official I’ve spoken with thinks these policies are a good idea. Indiana’s permitless carry law goes into effect on July 1. Photo by Jonathan Quilter via Flickr.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

According to court documents , Robertson, 49, and co-defendent Jacob Fracker were both officers with the Rocky Mount, Virginia, Police Department and were off duty when they headed for Washington, D.C. in Robertson’s car on the morning of January 6, 2021.

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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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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

But a report released Wednesday by the Manhattan Institute found that the rate of felonies per million subway rides nearly doubled from 1.45 Between 2020 and 2021, subway ridership rose 19 percent — yet violent felonies also continued to rise, by 8 percent. in 2019 to 2.71

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

This was followed by California’s Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, which reduced six felony offenses to misdemeanors and lowered the population eligible for prison and more extended felony probation terms. As part of the law, the reduced offenses came with relatively short and unsupervised local probations.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2021

One of those charged was Javon Washington, 30, faces an array of charges due to his role in playing music and encouraging defiance to the police. There were clearly legitimate arrests on that night as individuals destroyed property and assaulted police. However, Washington’s charges seemed based on his playing music at the scene.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 19, 2022

Earlier this year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposed rolling back his state’s raise the age law that, in 2017, had moved 16- and 17-year-olds out of New York’s violent Rikers Island jails and into its more rehabilitative family court. We have seen this movie before. s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 30, 2011

But, based on press reports and DOJ's own press releases, it looks like there has been at least some rethinking of the policies in Washington, DC as well. Both states are now reconsidering their laws that would otherwise allow for the operation of medical marijuana dispensaries. Broadcasters are Federal licensees.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A new Office of Gun Violence Prevention in California will reduce gun violence by keeping guns away from “dangerous individuals” and promoting research and data collection, the Washington Post reports. People with felony or violent misdemeanor convictions, restraining orders, or serious mental illness are all included on the list.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 13, 2022

Police departments in some Maryland counties have collective bargaining agreements that expire in June, and an extension could allow them time to sign a new agreement and not be required to adhere to the new law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

The decision further indicated that longstanding firearms bans for felons were “presumptively lawful.” Lisa Folajtar is barred because of a felony conviction for willfully making a materially false statement on her tax returns. Yakima County, Washington. Under 18 U.S.C. § Holloway v. Rosen and Folajtar v. 1326. . §

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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. Boyce acknowledges that Massachusetts is considered to have the strongest gun laws in the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 10, 2022

Since 2015 Congress has attached a rider to its appropriations bills barring the Department of Justice from using funds “to prevent [states] from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.” City of Kent, Washington v. Jacobo-Hernandez.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

As personal marijuana use becomes decriminalized in the states of Washington and Colorado, we once again repeat our warning to broadcasters who may be looking to pot sales as a new source of advertising revenue – remember that the Federal government still thinks that the drug is illegal. How does this affect broadcasters?

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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. relisted after the Feb. 25, March 4, March 18 and March 25 conferences).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

The court ruled that the Supreme Court had not formally overruled earlier case law supporting the theory that registration supports general jurisdiction. The law defines an animal facility as any place that houses or breeds animals used for food production, agriculture, or research. By contrast, the petition in Mallory v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 14, 2021

Free agent cornerback Richard Sherman has been arrested and notably denied bail in King County, Washington after a bizarre series of events overnight. Under Washington law, domestic violence can take the form of a variety of charges, including burglary. Those are hefty charges even as a Class B felony. Under RCW 9A.52.030

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Marshal David Singer told reporters, had generated attention from media outlets, armchair detectives and other law enforcement agencies. Editor’s Note: Chadwick has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of murder. . But in the wake of “Countdown to Capture,” other law enforcement agencies have embraced the medium.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 19, 2021

The second-degree murder claim does not require intent to murder Floyd but still requires a murder committed in the course of another felony. Rather, it found “ cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by law enforcement officer(s).” Follow him on Twitter: @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He was charged with (and later acquitted of) a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2010

Because the station cannot censor the candidate ad (except in the exceptionally rare situation where the airing of the ad might violate a Federal felony statute), the broadcaster has no liability for the contents of the ad. In fact, the Communications Act forbids a station from censoring a candidate ad.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

Roman is facing felony charges of reckless discharge of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon as well as child endangerment and violating probation. This incident occurred around 3 a.m., when two Chicago police officers confronted the 13-year-old and Roman while investigating gunshots in Little Village. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Louis’ extreme, particularly as a response to petty incidents, according to experts in law enforcement. I don’t think the actual terms of the neighborhood order of protection were clear to my client,” said Maureen Hanlon, an attorney for the public-interest law group ArchCity Defenders. “It But few have taken the practice to St.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Felony drug distribution carried a maximum sentence of 30 years and a fine up to $500,000 when I practiced as a prosecutor in DC. I saw this happen regularly throughout my 12 years as a prosecutor: a law passed under one stated objective is in practice applied differently, and harmfully—especially for Black and brown people.

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