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Can’t Just Commit Felonies On The Clock And Keep Your License In Tennessee

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Tennessee Justice Advocate Gets 40 Years for Concealing Weapons

The Crime Report

Alex Friedmann, a Nashville criminal justice advocate, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for hiding guns and other weapons in the walls of a Tennessee jail while it was under construction in 2019, reports Kirsten Ficus for USA Today.

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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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US Supreme Court rules reckless offenses do not qualify as ‘violent felony’

JURIST

The US Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that “reckless” crimes qualify as violent felonies for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). She also concluded that the ordinary meaning of “violent felony” requires knowing or intent behind the act.

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Felony Convictions Prevent 4.6 Million People From Voting: Report

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million people, will be barred from voting in 2022 due to state laws banning people with felony convictions from doing so, reports NPR. percent in Massachusetts to more than 8 percent in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, while Vermont, Maine, and Washington, D.C. ” Disenfranchisement rates range from 0.15

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Tennessee Rolls Out ‘Tough on Crime’ Package

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A number of new tough-on-crime laws are set to take effect in Tennessee starting Friday, July 1, the Chattanoogan reports. One law taking effect will require a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole —or the death sentence—for anyone convicted of first degree murder, rape or attempted rape and rape of a child.

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US Supreme Court hears first two cases of new term on water rights, ACCA

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Tennessee , an original case in which Mississippi claims that Tennessee is, through an unnatural amount of well-pumping on its side of the border, stealing groundwater from the Mississippi side of the border. Eight justices were present, with Justice Kavanaugh, who recently tested positive for the virus, attending remotely.

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