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Court limits definition of “violent felony” in federal gun-possession penalty

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Share A fractured Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of a key phrase in the Armed Career Criminal Act, ruling that crimes involving recklessness do not count as “violent felonies” for the purpose of triggering a key sentencing enhancement. Justice Clarence Thomas did not join Kagan’s opinion but concurred in the result.

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Columbus Shooting Sparks Protests Despite Videotape Showing Knife Attack

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The videotape does appear to satisfy the standard for the use of lethal force under Tennessee v. ” That language is derived from Tennessee v. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Garner and other case law. Police told local media that, at 4:32 p.m., Garner , 471 U.S. ” T ennessee v.

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Supreme Court once again considers the “categorical approach” to sentencing enhancements

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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. Justice Neil Gorsuch filed an opinion dissenting from the denial of cert , arguing that the court’s 1970 decision in Williams v. Kentucky ex rel.

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Supreme Court takes Clean Water Act case

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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 justices’ lone grant of review came in City and County of San Francisco v. Nike has denied any wrongdoing.

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The Odor of Mendacity: 2024 Could Turn on Smell of Selective Prosecution from Georgia to New York

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Channeling Tennessee Williams in his play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Judge Scott McAfee wrote that, after their testimony, there remained “an odor of mendacity.” This came after the Justice Department had allowed the statute of limitations to run out on major felonies and scuttled efforts to conduct searches and interviews.

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Restrictions on gender-affirming medical care – and assault weapons

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Last year, Tennessee and Kentucky were among a group of more than 20 states that enacted laws that prohibit giving transgender youths under the age of 18 medical treatment to align their appearance with their gender identity. The Biden administration intervened on the challengers’ side in the Tennessee case. Skrmetti , L.

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