JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two cases involving one of its own precedents regarding felony firearms possession. The post Supreme Court hears arguments in firearms possession cases appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. Two years ago in Rehaif v.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2021

The Switzerland Office of the Attorney General (OAG) on Tuesday dropped a decade-old money laundering investigation exposed by Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died under suspicious circumstances in a Russian jail in 2009. Hermitage and any other parties involved have 10 days to file an appeal against the order dropping the charges.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of paralegals and legal assistants is projected to grow 12 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations. Paralegals and legal assistants held about 345,600 jobs in 2020. 1 Paralegals and Legal Assistants: Occupational Outlook Handbook: U.S.

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The Crime Report

MAY 20, 2021

Only 11 states report having minimum qualifications for lawyers who represent impoverished people facing a lifetime behind bars, according to the nonprofit Sixth Amendment Center. South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 13, 2022

Criminal defense lawyer Dennis Riordan died two days ago at 73. ” Among many other honors, Riordan is one of only five attorneys inducted into the California Lawyers Association’s Appellate Lawyer Hall of Fame. ’ ‘He’d get a wry smile on his face.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Experts from around the country say the court process is still influenced by outdated ideas about abuse and abusers — held not just by judges but by lawyers and social workers who assist victims. They found that half the cases resulted in joint legal custody, requiring victims to cooperate in decision-making with their abusers.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 3, 2021

Judges, juvenile justice experts and lawyers say arrests traumatize children, ensnare them in the legal system and increase their chance of recidivism. In 2019, New York State completed a phase-in that raised the age at which teenagers can be charged as adults for misdemeanors and most felonies from 16 to 18 years old.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

The burden of the chronic “Initial Appearance Crisis” falls disproportionately on Black people, who are far more likely to be detained before trial than white people because they lack money for bail or for legal counsel. People who are in jail cannot work or meet their family obligations,” the authors write.

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A People's Choice

JULY 30, 2020

While not all criminal charges are eligible for expungement, even if you have been charged with a felony, you do have options. Plus, you may not need to hire a lawyer to help with your petitions! Read on to learn more.

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MyCase

AUGUST 12, 2022

Legal record management is a vital aspect of any law firm. Though legal record keeping is part of daily practice for law firms, it is often disorganized. On top of that, lawyers risk losing their license if they fail to comply with laws that protect client information contained in records. . The type of case and practice area .

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

He served Williams a summons ordering her to report to criminal court on a felony battery charge. Many of the patients who were charged had legal guardians, meaning that a court had previously found them unable to handle their own affairs. Williams, records show, is far from the only patient to have faced criminal charges.

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JURIST

APRIL 28, 2021

Palomar revolves around Palomar-Santiago, a Mexican national who was deported in 1998 due to what was, at the time, a crime of violence under federal law and therefore an aggravated felony that results in deportation under Title 8. That felony has since been declared not a crime of violence by the US Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

What’s more, legal experts say that these shortages have been the operational norm for years across our country as a whole, Law360 reports. . hours per workday, and lawyers in Oregon would need to put in 26.6 However, for public defenders in these states to provide effective counsel, attorneys in New Mexico would need to clock 25.4

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2021

For example, a collection of evidence about a single felony offense will be broken down into separate misdemeanor offenses labeled as separate “acts.” Lies about law involve lawyers twisting statutes until they no longer represent the original law. Such cases degrade trust in the system, Johnson argued.

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ALPS

AUGUST 4, 2022

So really involved in the South Dakota State Bar, American Bar Association, and the Young Lawyers Division. We had a judge and I was his lawyer. We sat in the cafeteria and they told me what it was like to be a lawyer and what it meant, and just always stuck with me. We had about 25 young lawyer volunteers.

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The Crime Report

MAY 11, 2022

Some of the accused have been jailed without a lawyer for months on charges of rape, sodomy, child sexual abuse or attempted murder. Judges have dismissed nearly four dozen cases in the Portland area alone and have threatened to hold the state public defender’s office in contempt of court for failing to provide attorneys.

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SimplyLawJobs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Tip 7) Public speaking and writing: Speaking in public will take you far in the law sector, which is an important quality of any lawyer. Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash – Author Holly Clarke – There are ways to get your felony expunged for free in Oregon , and the best way for that is to get a good lawyer.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

After lingering on the court’s docket for more than a year, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal , ruling in an unsigned opinion that death-row prisoner Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective performance at sentencing by failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

If they don’t fix it, it just gives more ammo to try to take people’s legal guns away,” Boyce says. “If If the legal people keep their legal guns locked up and they don’t get stolen, it’s going to stop crime.”. Lawyers for the city of Edmonds say the case can set a legal precedent. “In Messaging vs Law.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

DECEMBER 9, 2022

” That instruction relates to the “felony-murder rule,” which generally allows a court to hold a defendant responsible for a murder that occurs during the commission of a crime, even if the defendant didn’t commit the killing. But her exonerating statements were never handed over to Burton’s lawyers.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The still unraveling story of Alex Murdaugh, the once powerful South Carolina lawyer, became even more bizarre this week with reports of the arrest of a man, Curtis Edward Smith, 61, accused of shooting him in the head. at the request of Murdaugh. However, the shot only grazed Alex Murdaugh’s head on Sept.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I think part of the problem is that these legal tools are very much under the radar,” Beckett said. The banishments require the consent of the defendant, but some lawyers question whether defendants really have any choice but to sign. When neighborhood orders of protection are employed in St. Gardner succeeded Joyce in 2017.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The court ruled that Georgia’s prior citizen’s arrest law is only applicable if a person sees a felony committed and acts without delay. The judge ruled Friday afternoon that the prior citizen’s arrest law requires that the arrest would have to occur right after any felony crime was committed. Here is the prior law: O.C.G.A.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He has been reinvented by his lawyers and public relations team so many times he now seems like a Sybil witness with carefully constructed alternative personalities. Most recently, the “ Dark Biden ” emerged as his legal team pledged to attack witnesses and critics against him. Hunter the Hunted.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2010

What has not been addressed are the potential legal issues that this "third party" money may pose for broadcasters during the course of political campaigns. In fact, the Communications Act forbids a station from censoring a candidate ad.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

A story in Houston has everything you would want in a legal controversy: a murder, a mysterious figure known only as “D”, a missing Bengal tiger named India and even Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame. His lawyer, Michael Elliott, insists that he was on his way to surrender to police when he was picked up.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. TCR: The first part of your book focuses on the roots of the current legal system in English Common. Plea bargaining coincided with overt classism in the legal system.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The lectern and tables for lawyers arguing cases have been pushed to the back edge of the bar section, which is otherwise devoid of the many chairs where bar members would sit. The transcript on Oyez suggests that the lawyer, John Silard, used a polite “May I just finish the thought?” Energy Action Educational Foundation.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.” ” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.)

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The Crime Report

MAY 14, 2021

Indigent and without any means to secure adequate defense representation, I wrote an attorney I had consulted with a year or so earlier to help the mother of my child address a legal entanglement. Wainwright , ruled that every person accused of a felony should be guaranteed adequate defense representation, even if that person is indigent.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2023

However, it is also a case study of the perils of legal gluttony. The six misdemeanor charges and three felonies carry a potential sentence of 17 years for alleged tax evasion and filing a false return. The scandal was capped off legally and the media was running cover for Hunter. It could have been worse.

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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.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

A 2013 study that examined 413 civil and criminal cases brought forward after Roe found that Black women were “significantly more likely to be arrested, reported to state authorities by hospital staff, and subjected to felony charges,” according to VICE News.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A person held in state prison can challenge the constitutionality of their criminal conviction in federal court through a legal tool known as a writ of habeas corpus. The failure to comply with these requirements is a felony under Florida law. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The MAGA-world “Kraken” lawyer Sidney Powell will not face any discipline from the Texas Board of Disciplinary Appeals. But the Texas Board of Disciplinary Appeals confirmed they dismissed the motion for compulsory discipline brought by the state’s Commission for Lawyer Discipline in June, after Powell’s guilty plea.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

What is missing is any cognizable legal strategy in waiting until the first day of the trial to make a “naked plea” when it offered the least possible benefit to him. This decision may still be based more on political than legal calculations. It was not the plea but the timing of the plea that was the surprise.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Last May, in an ongoing legal challenge to Becton’s authority first filed in 2020, five white female prosecutors — Mary Knox, Alison Chandler, Mary Blumberg, Rachel Piersig and Jill Henderson — filed a federal lawsuit against Contra Costa County and its DA’s office. I never met a lawyer until I was somewhere in adulthood.” .

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