JURIST

JUNE 21, 2024

The case concerns a Texas councilwoman who argues that she was arrested in retaliation for her speech critical of a city government official. The case originated when a Texas councilwoman, Sylvia Gonzales, petitioned to have a city manager removed. The US Supreme Court held Thursday in Gonzalez v.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 13, 2023

Texas Senator Joan Huffman has proposed a bill that would require a 10-year prison sentence for people who use a gun during the commission of a felony, William Melhado and Alejandro Serrano reports for The Texas Tribune. This bill arrives two years after the state widely expanded gun access.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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ABA Journal

JULY 19, 2022

A district judge in Dallas County, Texas, who presides in felony cases has been ordered to be recused from dozens of cases based on requests…

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Now-retired prosecutor Ralph Petty earned a living at the Midland County District Attorney’s Office in West Texas. As a subsequent ruling by the Texas Court of Appeals finally made clear, the arrangement was not a momentary lapse in judgment or a one-time offense induced under pressure. Wilson will face similar challenges in Texas.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Ochs and fellow defendent Nicholas DeCarlo of Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty to only one of seven charges in their plea agreements. The post Proud Boys HI founder pleads guilty to felony charges for Jan 6 riot participation appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2022

The man who sold the gun used in an attack at a Texas synagogue on January 15, 2022, Thursday pled guilty to federal charges. Henry “Michael” Dwight Williams pled guilty to felony possession of a firearm. Akram then used the pistol to hold four people hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Texas.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2024

Additionally, the individual must leave the state within 72 hours following conviction or release from custody, with subsequent offenses classified as felonies, punishable by up to two years in prison, a fine of up to $1,000 or both. Iowa also passed a similar law in March.

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The Crime Report

JULY 21, 2023

The Texas “ law of parties ” allow prosecutors to seek and secure the execution of individuals involved in what is more generally known as “felony murder” crimes—offenses that involve more than one person, all of whom can be prosecuted as equal participants even though one or more of the participants may have had no direct involvement in the murder.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

Texas Rule of Evidence 609(a) provides that Evidence of a criminal conviction offered to attack a witness’s character for truthfulness must be admitted if: (1) the crime was a felony or involved moral turpitude, regardless of punishment; (2) the probative.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The model law , developed by the conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council and adopted by at least ten states, including Texas, criminalizes protest action on “critical infrastructure” and holds the accused liable for any damage that may have occurred.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

On the same day, one man was sentenced to ten years in prison and a second pled guilty to felony charges. Kellye Sorelle, a Texas attorney, is charged with conspiracy to obstruct Congress’s certification of the Electoral College votes, and obstruction of Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 21, 2022

Advocates are pushing states to create updated felony standards, arguing that outdated laws, which vary wildly from state to state, are unfairly making felons out of people who committed minor crimes such as stealing a pair of shoes, reports Axios.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

He was convicted of all 24 counts brought against him, including terrorism causing death, four counts of first-degree premeditated murder, seven counts of assault with intent to murder and 12 counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. This is not the only litigation following the Oxford shooting.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Bloomberg Law News ] * Texas loses bid to bar DOJ from sending monitors to ensure the state abides by voting laws. AG Ken Paxton -- who settled outstanding felony charges against him earlier this year -- argued that Texas was fully capable of keeping things legal. American Lawyer ] * Latham & Watkins sanctioned. [

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The Crime Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Resolving the contradiction will require an amendment, according to a paper in the Texas Tech Law Review. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper. Tyler Smotherman will graduate from Texas Law Tech in May 2023.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In a Boston University Law Review article, Laroche argues that such felony disenfranchisement is tantamount to voter suppression — and, as Black women continue to face more barriers to electoral participation, demands urgent dismantling. . Black women are described as the ‘unsung heroes’ of the right to vote,” Laroche writes. Plenty of U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 29, 2021

The latest such case involves the arrest of two teenage girls in Texas after they removed a gold necklace off the chest of a dead man found in a drainage ditch. The state law states that a theft is a felony if: (A)?the We often discuss novel criminal charges or cases. The charge is “theft from a human corpse.”

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The Crime Report

MAY 20, 2021

In Texas, there’s a continuing dispute over whether the standards for death penalty defense apply if prosecutors seek life without parole instead. Only 11 states report having minimum qualifications for lawyers who represent impoverished people facing a lifetime behind bars, according to the nonprofit Sixth Amendment Center.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In 2005, 22 American states, including Texas, permitted executions of juveniles. In fact, Texas by far led the nation in killing juveniles with 13 juvenile executions. In Texas, as another example, a juvenile tried in adult court faces the same penalties as an adult, except for the death penalty and mandatory life without parole.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Case in point: Texas v. That case, which involved Texas’ challenge to a regulation that delegated governmental authority to an actuarial group to set standards for Medicaid reimbursement, had been rescheduled twice and relisted six times going into last Friday’s conference. Texas , a capital case from the Lone Star State.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

.” Recent rulings in lower courts across the country have mirrored Thomas’s guidance to stay consistent with how states have historically regulated gun ownership, striking down gun restrictions involving young adults, people facing felony charges, and makers of homemade guns.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

s life on March 24, 2023, in an adult Texas prison facility speaks volumes about the ineptitude of the nation’s penal system and the conservative ideological politics of its judicial system in dealing with juvenile offenders. That earned him five additional years in the Texas adult penal system. This tragedy is not confined to Texas.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2021

Warren borrowed the car from a Wolfforth, Texas dealer in the summer of 2019 before allegedly he driving the vehicle over to the bank and handing over a fast-food bad and a note reading “This is a f—— robbery. b) An offense under this section is a felony of the first degree. (c) Play with me and die. AGGRAVATED ROBBERY. (a)

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment (as incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment) guarantees criminal defendants the right to a unanimous jury, it meant a 12-person jury — not a six-person jury, which is all that Florida affords some felony defendants. rescheduled before the Dec. 1 conference; relisted after the Dec.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

Gun Safety pledge offered at Austin Texas program. I started looking at gun thefts,” Boyce said, adding that became alarmed after reading about the thousands of guns stolen each year in Texas. Indeed, more guns are stolen from Texas each year than any state in the country. 268,942 Guns Missing in Texas.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The trial of Kaitlin Armstrong, who is accused of murdering star cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson out of romantic jealousy on May 11, 2022, began in Texas Wednesday, Ethan Weinstein reports for VTDigger. Armstong has also been charged with felony escape after attempting to flee custody at the prison she is being held in.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, in Illinois, North Carolina and Texas, licensure boards are prohibited from considering arrests that failed to result in a conviction. States have implemented a variety of fair chance licensing reforms in recent years.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

The study cited a survey of people recently admitted to prison in Texas, which showed that 66 percent preferred incarceration over 10 years of probation. Additionally, from 1989 to 2017, there was a 46 percent decline in felony arrests. A special panel of three federal judges mandated downsizing the population to 137.5

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

Similarly, In 11 states — including Arkansas, Delaware, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas — ineligibility for jury service is permanent without a pardon. On a more broad spectrum, a pardon may be necessary to enable anyone to run for elected office, or simply secure a professional or business license.

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The Crime Report

MAY 25, 2021

Informing juries and judges about the cost of incarcerating a defendant would help reduce mass incarceration and recidivism, and curb “over-punishing,” according to a Texas law professor. This results in what commentators have accurately described as a ‘correctional free lunch.’.

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The Crime Report

JULY 18, 2022

in 2018, but Florida law requires that a jury determine a sentence of either death or life in prison for capital felonies, the Associated Press reports. Patrick Crusius, the suspect in the mass shooting that killed 23 at an El Paso, Texas shooting in 2019, is still awaiting trial. Most mass shooters do not live to go to trial.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , to be argued on Tuesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether a private individual can sue his state-agency employer for violating the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994. Le Roy Torres served as both a Texas state trooper and a U.S. Share In Torres v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 23, 2022

Under Rosales, people with multiple family violence charges and identifiable patterns of violence have been released from jail due to a section of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure that says people cannot be jailed past a certain period if prosecutors are not ready to take their cases to trial.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

Share The court handed a win to a former-city council member in Texas on Thursday, clearing the way for her federal civil rights claim to move forward. Almost all of the 215 felony indictments under that law, she observed, involved the use or creation of fake government IDs.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2022

Representatives of four sellers of body armor said they saw some rise in sales following recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., According to sellers, people convicted of a violent felony are banned from buying body armor, but regulatory enforcement of that law is lax. reports NPR. are few and far between.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury. . Texas , 21-6001. A short explanation of relists is available here. relisted after the Feb.

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