The Crime Report

APRIL 5, 2022

In Ohio, where a doctor impregnating a patient with his own sperm without consent is legal in terms of a criminal offense, a bipartisan group of legislators have introduced House Bill 64 creating the crime of fraudulent assisted reproduction. There is also a potential prison time of up to five years.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided that the 65-year prison sentence given to a former nursing home aide who stole personal items from residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities should stand, Dan Trevas reports for Court News Ohio.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 7, 2022

Lindsay interviewed 50 formerly incarcerated men in Ohio about how they used their prison credentials in their job search strategies. In the article, Lindsay cites previous research that shows that white men with a felony are as likely to be called back by an employer as Black men without a felony record.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

Arizona also repealed a law authorizing suspension of driver’s licenses for failure to pay and authorized its courts to redesignate some felonies as misdemeanors, the report details. . We have come a long way in the past five years, but there is still a long way to go.”.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 30, 2022

There is no empirical support for rules banning diversion for young people who are considered to be at a higher risk of recidivism and those who have committed felonies, Mendel writes. Lower Recidivism Rates.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

The licensee had pled guilty to five crimes, consisting of one felony (criminal use of a communications facility) and four related misdemeanors, but received probation instead of a prison sentence. The Media Bureau also allotted FM channel 272A to Dennison, Ohio as its first local service.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, in Columbus, Ohio has sparked protests despite the police releasing a videotape that appeared to show Bryant moving to stab another girl. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. The incident has strikingly similar legal issues to the shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

City of Pharm in which an Ohio man was prosecuted for posting a parody of his local police department. Some of us have been following the Novak case as an important free speech case after Anthony Novak was prosecuted for a parody on Facebook to mock the police department in Parma, Ohio. Image from Supreme Court Petition.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 31, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court had rejected what should be Oberlin College’s final appeal of a verdict in favor of Gibson’s Bakery. Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. It voted 4-3 to end further litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Tyrance McCall, a Florida resident, filed suit in Georgia against Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Ohio, after a 2016 accident in Florida resulted from the alleged failure of a tire that Cooper manufactured in Arkansas.

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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. City of Parma, in which Anthony Novak was prosecuted for posting a parody of the website of his local police department.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

A grand jury declined to return an indictment Thursday against Brittany Watts, an Ohio woman facing an abuse of corpse charge after suffering a miscarriage in her home. The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office stated that, after evaluating the case, they believed Watts did not violate the Ohio Criminal Statute of Abuse of a Corpse.

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JURIST

APRIL 9, 2021

Ohio judge Alison Hatheway granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday which temporarily blocks an Ohio law banning telemedicine abortions. The post Ohio judge temporarily blocks ban on telemedicine abortions appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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At the Lectern

JULY 25, 2024

The 2018 legislation limited criminal liability for felony murder, eliminated it for murder under the natural-and-probable-consequences doctrine, and allowed possible resentencing for those convicted under pre-SB 1437 law. ” Two votes for review in Three-Strikes resentencing case.

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JURIST

MARCH 29, 2021

The case stemmed out of a dispute between Professor Nicholas Meriwether and a transgender student at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio. Alabama is on track to pass a bill that would make providing any gender-affirming treatment for transgender youth a felony.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In a case that prompted satirical news outlet The Onion to file its first-ever amicus brief in the Supreme Court, an Ohio man sued police for violating his constitutional rights when they arrested him for creating a Facebook page parodying the local police department. City of Parma, Ohio. Novak was acquitted at trial. In Novak v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit this week upheld an Ohio law that bans doctors from performing abortions when they know the reason a woman is seeking an abortion is that her baby has Down syndrome. It is a major win for pro-life advocates but could face an appeal to the Supreme Court. The new law, H.B.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Others present their analyses to prosecutors or enlist Tracy Harpster, the program’s creator and a retired deputy police chief from Ohio, to consult on cases. They have used it to help extract confessions. During Harpster’s career, he had almost no homicide investigation experience or scientific background.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

have emerged as a powerful political voice and exerted an influence that has distorted justice systems across the country, according to an Ohio State University Legal Studies Research Paper. As a result, for-profit prison companies in the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ames began work in 2004 as an executive secretary at the Ohio Department of Youth Services, which supervises the confinement and rehabilitation of children and teenagers who commit felonies. The post Ohio woman asks court to weigh in on requirements for reverse discrimination claim appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Miller was charged with assaulting Capitol police, a felony, and disorderly conduct inside the Capitol building, a misdemeanor. Garrett Miller was one of thousands of Trump supporters arrested in the aftermath of Jan. Seeking a higher sentence, prosecutors also charged Miller with violating Section 1512(c). Chiaverini v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

Beginning in the mid-1980s and carrying into today, immigration law has become increasingly intertwined with criminal law, resulting in a growing number of deportations, writes University of Denver law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, in an Ohio State Legal Studies research paper. From Drugs to Terrorism.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

” ) In other words, the natural and probable consequences doctrine may apply to felony murder, but it is not properly applied to attempted murder. It must be proved, and it cannot be inferred merely from the commission of another dangerous crime.” ” [Citation.]’ ’ [Citations.]” In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Others claimed Trump committed “felony bribery” by fundraising for Republican senators when he was about to be impeached. Ohio , where the Supreme Court said even “advocacy of the use of force or of law violation” is protected unless it is imminent. That simply is not true. The problem is free speech. Trump’s Jan.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

Ohio , 378 U.S. We have never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before any election in 2024. It was the criminal theory itself that seemed crafted around the standard for obscenity famously described by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the case of Jacobellis v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

.” This ridiculous legal claims is based on the bribery theory: The danger for Shirkey and Chatfield, then, is that they are being visibly invited to a meeting where the likely agenda involves the felony of attempting to bribe a public official. However, when Democrats like Sen. Barbara Boxer (D.,

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Above The Law

MARCH 26, 2025

Houston was convicted of two counts of murder and two counts of felonious assault in Ohio state court, and his habeas petition was dismissed as untimely under AEDPAs one-year statute of limitations. Davis involves Cardell Houstons appeal of the district courts denial of his habeas corpus petition.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Experts like Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe have previously declared Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” The Committee was playing to the same audience and knew that they did not have to produce such evidence to make their case. At 4:17 p.m.,

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

While these political vs. legal interpretations of reality capture the moment in the ongoing saga of Donald Trump, I do not believe that the label of victim is “baked in” nor that his narrative of victimhood will be the prevailing one.

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