SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

922(g) , the federal statute barring people with prior felony convictions from possessing firearms, the government must prove that the defendant knew he was a felon at the time he possessed a firearm. Common sense,” he continued, suggests that most people with felony convictions are aware of their legal status as convicted felons.

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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.” Even though a judge, prosecutor and defendant agree it was only one criminal act, the multiple misdemeanors would be honored to lessen the penalty, yet still get a semblance of justice.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 27, 2022

After Blankenship had already paid a $250,000 fine and served one year of imprisonment for a misdemeanor (the jury acquitted him on all felony counts), the government disclosed 61 witness interview reports. Issues : (1) Whether spending-clause statutes ever give rise to privately enforceable rights under 42 U.S.C.

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At the Lectern

MAY 4, 2023

” The court’s unanimous opinion by Justice Goodwin Liu notes that since enactment of the statute (Welfare and Institutions Code section 702), “we have thrice remanded for further proceedings to remedy noncompliance with its express declaration requirement.” In In re F.M. , ” It does so for a fourth time in F.M.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PETA and other groups have called the activists “heroes” f or their actions but prosecutors are seeking convictions for felony burglary and theft charges. The protester was engaged, at a minimum, in a criminal misdemeanor while be pursued by security. In my view, Wagner and McKinley had a right to tackle the protester.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The statement could effectively knock out the misdemeanor gun possession count — the one count that could still be in play for the jury after the prosecution’s case on the more serious offense appeared to collapse in court. It is also hard to instruct a jury on an ambiguous statute. I have a legal education.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2023

However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. It also is an appeal that would be made by the United States over the invalidation of a federal statute. That triggered the federal ban.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. It reportedly includes claims of felony and misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint, but didn’t name individual suspects.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

The punishment is a misdemeanor charge and fines of $500 to $2,000. The Lacey Act and other federal wildlife statutes could be charged for such conduct. If convicted of a felony, the maximum penalty is $20,000 and/or up to five years imprisonment. However, the penalties are notably higher.

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JURIST

APRIL 4, 2024

If signed, the adultery statute will be immediately repealed. ” The law stated that the offense was a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to three months imprisonment. ” The law stated that the offense was a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to three months imprisonment.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

Share Federal immigration law requires the deportation of noncitizens who are convicted of an aggravated felony, which includes offenses “relating to obstruction of justice.” Pugin pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to a felony, while Cordero-Garcia was convicted of dissuading a witness from reporting a crime.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The bill creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. billion in state funding for the costs of implementing the new criminal statute. An additional bill, Senate Bill 3 , was also signed into law to provide over $1.5

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2023

Wade , does not impact the statute’s constitutionality. 20-134 categorizes “employing means to cause an abortion” as a third-degree felony. Additionally, the statute makes women who undergo abortion treatment guilty of misdemeanors. Public Law No.

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2024

They first argue that the federal government has exclusive power to regulate immigration and that Iowa’s law conflicts with federal immigration statutes. Forbidden reentry is an “aggravated misdemeanor, punishable by up to two years in state prison.” ” The complaint also stresses the law’s impact.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 29, 2025

Facts of the Case The federal statute at issue, Title 18 U.S.C. Under Section 924(c)(3)(A), a crime of violence is defined as a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another. 924(c)(3)(A). In support of its decision, the Court cited United States v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 30, 2021

Hawaii enacted a law last week that removes the statute of limitations for sex trafficking and distinguishes sex buyers from people selling sex. Advocates also say decriminalization will reduce the stigma that surrounds people involved in sex trafficking, most of whom are poor women and girls, immigrants and LGBTQ people. .

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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. percent of total arrests and 20.2 percent and 25.1 percent respectively.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 29, 2021

Division Six concluded an erroneous felony-murder instruction was harmless. The unpublished opinion of the First District, Division One, affirmed the sustaining of a wardship petition for misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. Offley (2020) 48 Cal.App.5th 5th 588), in which no petition for review was filed. ” (Emphasis added.) .”

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

side without going through a designated port of entry, that same action becomes a misdemeanor or even a felony , depending on the circumstances. . When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S. Decriminalizing jaywalking was a measure of equity. In 1969, the Supreme Court held in Shapiro v. Thompson that U.S.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

I also raised the problem of an investigation that remained ongoing for years as the statute of limitations expired on major potential crimes. Two IRS whistleblowers recently confirmed that the expiration of potential tax felony crimes was raised with Weiss and the Department of Justice (DOJ).

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Mark McCloskey later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors to end the case, but was then granted a pardon. The department denied Guastello’s application for another liquor license based on the statute’s mandate that no person convicted of a liquor law violation could receive a liquor license. In Bill v. Boyer (Mo.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The six misdemeanor charges and three felonies carry a potential sentence of 17 years for alleged tax evasion and filing a false return. The Justice Department inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to run on the most serious allegations involving payments from years going back to 2016. It could have been worse.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

The legal foundation of the hush money case — weirdly bootstrapping a misdemeanor into a felony — may be bizarre, but it’s nonetheless exactly what the New York law says. The legislature may want to change it but as far as the “rule of law” goes, Trump violated this statute.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The First District, Division One, published opinion concluded the defendant could not be relieved from a mandatory lifetime sex offender registration requirement despite his felony conviction for attempting to distribute harmful material to a minor having been reduced to a misdemeanor. ” Forum selection grant-and-hold.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds. I maintained that perjury is a “high crime and misdemeanor” regardless of its subject.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

The statute is below. Here is the statute: 13-1202. Threatening or intimidating pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1 or 2 is a class 1 misdemeanor, except that it is a class 6 felony if: 1. Threatening or intimidating pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 3 is a class 3 felony. We have been here before with Trump.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Indeed, the Statute of Winchester states that citizens should “follow them with all the town and the towns near, with hue and cry from town to town until that they be taken and delivered to the sheriff.” ” The right still exists for any felonies (or certain misdemeanors committed in the presence of the citizen).

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2023

They also would have to deal with a charge brought seven years after the alleged offense, despite a two-year statute of limitations for the underlying misdemeanors (or a five-year period for a felony). Department of Justice.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

I have been critical of the indictment, which is reportedly based on a highly dubious use of a New York misdemeanor charge to revise a long dormant federal election law charge. A Section 175 charge would normally be a misdemeanor. Yet, there was no hue and cry for this type of prosecution in Washington or New York.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2023

The only crime that has been discussed in this case is an unprecedented attempt to revive a misdemeanor for falsifying business documents that expired years ago. Moreover, Bragg could face the same statute of limitation concerns on some of the issues previously investigated by the Justice Department.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

Given Bragg’s failure to even state the key offense allowing him to bring these 34 felonies, Merchan should have scheduled a hearing on the threshold legal questions in two weeks — not schedule all motions to be heard in December. That, apparently, is left to the suspension of disbelief.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

He had been convicted of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in October 2017. A second activist who filmed the action was convicted of felony conspiracy to commit criminal mischief and conspiracy trespass, a misdemeanor.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Yet at the press conference and Q & A following the arraignment District Attorney Alvin Bragg told the world that the 34 felony charges brought against defendant Trump were nothing more than the Manhattan office engaging in its everyday prosecution of “bread and butter” white-collar crimes.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the defendant was anyone other than Trump. That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

While the actual charges will not be disclosed until the release of the indictment, the underlying theory discussed for months is an effort to revive a dead misdemeanor offense of falsifying business records — years after the statute of limitations expired. They largely ignore that the misdemeanor is expired. Bragg caved.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The three cited statutes do not require classified status for a crime but two deal with the unlawful possession or handling of defense or sensitive information.) Trump has not fully explained how he allegedly declassified all of this material.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2024

Merchan has allowed the government to bring back into life a dead misdemeanor and convert it into 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Liberal commentators acknowledged the fact that Cohen had committed a far more serious offense than the converted misdemeanor against Trump (but was never charged).

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