The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a result of the shortages of public defenders in New Mexico, attorneys have had to represent 156 cases per year and work about 13 hours per case, regardless of whether the case is a misdemeanor or felony, the report details. . hours per workday, and lawyers in Oregon would need to put in 26.6

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 19, 2022

And in July, Louisiana Gov. The Centers for Disease Control found that youth tried as adults are 34 percent more likely to be arrested for felonies than youth with similar prior records tried as juveniles. Connecticut’s House of Representatives passed legislation in April cracking down on youth accused of car theft.

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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.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Louisiana —a decision that effectively held Miller had to be applied retroactively to those juveniles sentenced to mandatory life without parole before Miller. Four years after Miller (2016), the Supreme Court continued its efforts to define juvenile justice in America in Montgomery v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Louisiana , the Supreme Court overruled precedent from the 1970s upholding nonunanimous verdicts in criminal cases. Arizona he asks the Supreme Court to overrule a 1970 precedent holding that states can use juries as small as six jurors to try defendants for felonies. Louisiana , 21-993. Two years ago in Ramos v. 28 conference).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Louisiana , 21-993. Issue : Whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. Issue : Whether a person commits aggravated identity theft any time they mention or otherwise recite someone else’s name while committing a predicate offense. 14 conference).

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Two decades later, Wilson’s felony record continues to block her lifelong dream of becoming a nurse in Texas—a state that denies licensure to people convicted of specific crimes, including drug offenses. Bonin failed to do this in the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in Louisiana. Judge Paul A. But Bonin went further.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Louisiana , the justices ruled that Miller also applied retroactively – that is, to anyone sentenced before 2012. Four years later, in Montgomery v. In light of Montgomery , Bassett sought post-conviction relief to determine whether his sentence was unconstitutional.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

My life in that underworld still widely unknown to many, began when I met an extraordinary man in the Death House at Angola, a Louisiana slave plantation turned into a prison in 1880. The Louisiana Pardon Board chairman and the prison official were convicted. Under Louisiana law, his crime was manslaughter.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

The Georgia House responded by passing a bill providing that anyone seeking to enforce Chisholm would be “guilty of a felony and shall suffer death, without benefit of clergy, by being hanged.”). Georgia , the Supreme Court relied on this language to allow a suit against Georgia by an out-of-state creditor.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Louisiana —a decision that effectively held that its Miller decision had to be applied retroactively to those juveniles sentenced to mandatory life without parole before Miller. Four years after Miller (2016), the Supreme Court continued its efforts to define juvenile justice in America in Montgomery v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Louisiana , 21-993. Issue : Whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. Based on his concurrence, it seems likely that this petition has Gorsuch’s close attention. Until next time, stay safe ! New Relists. Returning Relists. 28 and Oct.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

RGIS employees “were also implicated in stealing narcotics” from pharmacies in Kentucky, North Carolina and Louisiana and WIS employees “were implicated” in thefts from three Texas pharmacies. Not only was that employee caught diverting a schedule II opioid, they were given further opportunities to steal from pharmacies. a), 1307.03.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Louisiana , 21-993. Issue : Whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. relisted after the Oct. 28 conference). Returning Relists. 14 and Oct. 28 conferences). Khorrami v. Arizona , 21-1553. relisted after the Sept. 14 and Oct. 28 conferences).

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2021

Texas and Louisiana filed suit against the federal government Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, alleging that immigration authorities declined to take custody of convicted individuals who could be subject to deportation.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

Texas that Texas and Louisiana do not have constitutional standing to sue the federal government over a 2021 Homeland Security Memorandum that focuses immigration enforcement actions on non-citizens who are suspected of terrorism, committed serious crimes or are caught at the border entering illegally.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Rollins challenges a Massachusetts law that makes it a felony to secretly record the speech of anyone other than a law enforcement officer, irrespective of motive. In Louisiana v. Louisiana v. Two petitions ask the justices to take up novel First Amendment issues. Project Veritas Action Fund v. Project Veritas Action Fund v.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2023

Called the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, the law makes doctors providing gender-affirming healthcare to minors a felony, criminalizing prescribing puberty blockers, performing a mastectomy and operating on or removing any “nondiseased” tissue. Idaho Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 71 into law in April.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

And the court denied review to a group of 13 much-relisted cases that raised the question whether felony defendants have a constitutional right to a 12-person jury rather than just a six-person one. Amant, Louisiana. The court may soon decide to answer that question.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

All raise the same question: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when a criminal defendant is charged with a felony. The defendants in these cases argue that when the Supreme Court held a few years ago in Ramos v. relisted after the Apr. 12 conference) Cunningham v. 12 conference) Guzman v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

And over a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the justices declined to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. The question came to the court in the case of Natoya Cunningham , who was convicted by a six-person jury and sentenced to eight years in prison.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Louisiana’s Republican controlled Legislature has approved a constitutional amendment that would empower legislators to expand the number of crimes in which juveniles between 14 and 16 years old can tried as adults. The amendment awaits voters’ approval in a statewide election on March 29, 2025, to become Louisiana Law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Louisiana Federal Court Halted Work on Crude Oil Pipeline in Swamp Area. The federal district court for the Middle District of Louisiana enjoined work on the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. 16-35380, 16-35382 (9th Cir. The planned pipeline is to be 162.5

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In 1960, she experienced perhaps her most formative memory: watching on television as 6-year-old Ruby Bridges of New Orleans, Louisiana, flanked by white U.S. Becton’s office filed felony charges against Andrew Hall, a white Danville police officer and sheriff’s deputy, for the on-duty killing of Laudemer Arboleda.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

In states like Texas, Tennessee and Louisiana, many officers are worried. executive director of the Louisiana Chiefs of Police Association says, “We feel it was just another opportunity to get our officers hurt. Also, from 2008 through 2017, 22 police officers were feloniously killed with a firearm in the state. Across the U.S.,

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

.” Jess Bravin and Michelle Hackman of The Wall Street Journal report that “ Supreme Court Considers Challenge to Biden Policy Curbing Immigration Arrests; Texas and Louisiana say government should pursue all people in U.S. illegally rather than targeting those who pose safety risks.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Governor Kay Ivey announced Friday that Alabama would immediately ask the court to strike down “any legal barriers to enforcing” a 2019 law, HB314, that makes performing an abortion a felony. Performing an abortion or attempted abortion are felony offenses. Performing an abortion is a felony offense. Louisiana Gov.

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