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Washington State Faces Defense Attorney Shortages

The Crime Report

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. Franklin County officials are looking to add $300,000 to the Office of Public Defense to attract more lawyers.

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Can Americans Keep Their Guns Safe?

The Crime Report

Although the Washington state cities of Seattle and Edmonds in 2018 succeeded in passing gun storage policies that impose substantial monetary penalties on firearm owners whose weapons aren’t stored in a gun safe, both cities have had to fend off challenges from gun rights advocates who say these policies violate state law. Messaging vs Law.

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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

SCOTUSBlog

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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St. Louis Can Banish People From Entire Neighborhoods – Police Can Arrest Them if They Come Back

The Crime Report

University of Washington professors Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert, who have studied Seattle’s efforts, said in their 2009 book, “ Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America ,” that banishment is “rarely debated publicly” and that cities’ tactics are “largely deployed without much fanfare.”. Gardner succeeded Joyce in 2017.

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The Domino Effect: How All Four Cases In The Death of George Floyd Could Collapse With A Chauvin Acquittal

JonathanTurley

The second-degree murder claim does not require intent to murder Floyd but still requires a murder committed in the course of another felony. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors. Follow him on Twitter: @JonathanTurley.

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What is the Impact on Broadcasters of Supreme Court Decision that Corporations Can Buy Political Ads? More Money, More Ad Challenges and the Return of the Zapple Doctrine

Broadcast Law Blog

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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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption

JonathanTurley

His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.” In the first few years of the scandal, Biden associates — and Hunter himself — emphasized that he was a highly educated lawyer with executive-level experience to offer these companies.

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