SquirePattonBoggs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Court held that an Ohio aggravated-robbery offense, R.C. A)(1), does not qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act (commonly referred to as “ACCA”). A)(1) did qualify as a violent felony under ACCA. 2d 1038 (Ohio 2009), which held that the deadly-weapon element in R.C. 2d 26, 34 (Ohio 2010)).

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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. Returning Relists.

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At the Lectern

JULY 25, 2024

The unpublished Second District, Division Five, opinion rejected constitutional challenges to the statute that prevents parole hearings for defendants serving life without parole sentences for special circumstances murders committed between the ages of 18 and 26. The court denied review in People v. In People v. Hardin (2024) 15 Cal.5th

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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

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. The misdemeanors in this case, including falsifying these payments, expired with the passage of the statute of limitations.

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