The Crime Report

JUNE 15, 2021

A Virginia couple on Monday pleaded guilty to demonstrating unlawfully in the U.S. Their sentence will likely act as a precedent for the more than 450 defendants also facing charges of misdemeanors — lesser crimes than the felonies that instigators are facing — in the Jan. Capitol during the Jan.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

Descano, says his office lacks the resources to hire attorneys to properly handle all of his office’s cases and, as a result, stopped prosecuting cases involving allegations of non-felony assault, larceny and other low-level crimes.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

In Virginia, the minimum age to charge someone with a felony is 14 years old. In many states, the legal system assumes that young children are not capable of the thought and planning that goes into committing a violent crime. Do schools need to start searching first graders?

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Above The Law

APRIL 18, 2022

Virginia law classifies the sexual abuse of animals as a felony. . * Kansas officers are taking liberties with filing reports on seized property. Didn’t expect to see a takings issue in criminal procedure! LawrenceKSTimes ]. I’m definitely going to be clarifying the next time I hear the phrase “heavy petting”. [

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The Crime Report

MARCH 7, 2023

Tracy Pennington from Ripley, West Virginia was charged with felony child concealment and conspiracy after police entered her home without a warrant and found her daughter hiding behind the dresser.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A suspended West Virginia lawyer who fled the country has pleaded guilty to a felony charge after being accused of overbilling for criminal defense…

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JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

.” The amended language if signed into law will now read that convicted felons serving a sentence of imprisonment shall not “have the right to register for or vote at any election in this state while he or she is incarcerated for such felony.” Governor Cuomo received the bill on Thursday.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 3, 2023

Tracy Pennington lives in Ripley, West Virginia. Prosecutors charged Pennington in state court with felony child concealment and conspiracy. The West Virginia Supreme Court denied her appeal. West Virginia , Pennington asks the justices to clarify whether “reason to believe” is equivalent to probable cause. Pennington v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2023

Congress extended the Immigration and Nationality Act, which regulates immigration into the United States, in 1988 to give immigration enforcement authorities, now the Department of Homeland Security, the power to automatically deport noncitizens convicted of an “aggravated felony” at the state or federal level.

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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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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. Florida and Moore v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In 2003, Justin Eugene Taylor sold marijuana in Richmond, Virginia. Under the so-called “elements clause,” a crime of violence is any felony that “has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another.”

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2021

In some examples cited in the paper, a Virginia defendant in Virginia charged with transporting marijuana pleaded guilty to trafficking a different type of drug altogether; a New York defendant charged with animal cruelty pleaded guilty to trespassing even though no trespassing was involved.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Its nearest competitor was Virginia with three juvenile executions. 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. Juvenile executions came to a halt in 2005 when the Supreme Court in Roper v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2022

For this action to be effective, the Senate would need to also vote on this bill to take the drug off Schedule I, which currently makes its possession and distribution (and the use of radio to promote it), a federal felony. Owners of a tower in Virginia were cited by the FCC Enforcement Bureau for tower lighting failures.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 28, 2022

Jacob Schuman argues in a forthcoming Virginia Law Review article. Mexico border and one-third of felony violations nationally, Schuman found after an analysis of data from the U.S. Revocations of supervised release for “criminal violations” are the primary drivers of incarceration in the U.S., Returning to the U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

Individuals charged with a felony or class A misdemeanor can ask for this hearing, unless they are accused of attacking a police officer. Virginia, and Connecticut, a version of a proposal drafted by Cynthia Lee, a law professor at George Washington University, has been adopted. In Washington, D.C.,

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

United States (involving the prosecution of the former Virginia governor), Kelly v. Issue : Whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. Think McDonnell v. United States (the “bridgegate” case), and this term’s cases Percoco v. 14 conferences).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

One of those four involves an issue on which the court already is considering 11 other relisted cases: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments require the use of a 12-person jury to try defendants accused of felonies, rather than the six-person jury Florida affords for many such offenses. relisted after the Apr. Florida and Moore v. 12 and Apr.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 27, 2022

Following an explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia that killed 29 miners, federal prosecutors charged Don Blankenship, then the CEO of the company that owned and operated the mine, with willfully violating safety regulations.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Its nearest competitor, Virginia carried out three juvenile executions. In 2005, 22 American states, including Texas, allowed for the executions of juveniles. In fact, Texas by far led the nation in killing juveniles with 13 such executions. Juvenile executions came to a halt in 2005 when the Supreme Court in Roper v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The government presented no such evidence at Jones’s trial – under the law at the time, it didn’t have to in order to sustain a conviction – and although he had 11 prior felony convictions, Jones testified that he believed his record had been expunged. Thus, Jones argues, he is serving a prison term for conduct that is not a crime.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

The Georgia House responded by passing a bill providing that anyone seeking to enforce Chisholm would be “guilty of a felony and shall suffer death, without benefit of clergy, by being hanged.”). In 2006, in Central Virginia Community College v. Chisholm was, not surprisingly, unpopular with the states.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Although the railroad’s principal place of business is Virginia, it is registered to do business in Pennsylvania as a foreign corporation, and Mallory sued there. Robert Mallory worked for Norfolk Southern Railway for almost 20 years and claims he developed colon cancer because of his workplace exposure to asbestos and other toxic chemicals.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Editor’s Note: Chadwick has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of murder. . Last year, the Winchester Police Department in northern Virginia detailed one of its cold cases in a podcast titled “Defrost.” And I hadn’t really thought about it that way.”. New Take on Popular Genre.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A reasonable conclusion to draw from these textual features is that an affirmative act of government is required to restore what the government has taken away by its affirmative decision to prosecute and convict a person of a felony. This latest ruling is part of a wave of legislation and litigation surrounding felony disenfranchisement.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

With the decriminalization of jaywalking in Nevada , Virginia and now California — the “ Freedom to Walk ” Act will take effect in Los Angeles in the new year — it appears that people understand this when it comes to jaywalking, but not when it comes to immigration. . When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

All raise the same question: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when a criminal defendant is charged with a felony. Before the case could go to trial, the Virginia general assembly repealed the statute. relisted after the Apr. 12 conference) Cunningham v. 12 conference) Guzman v.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Philadelphia joins Virginia , which became the first state to ban non-public safety stops earlier this year. Brendan Cox.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The West Virginia Senate has passed a bill that would make interfering with a police officer and causing their death a felony punishable by up to life in prison, John Raby reports for the Associated Press.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

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.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 17, 2022

” He then reported that he was miffed that he was on hold with child welfare to report Ramirez: “The Virginia State hotline for child abuse has a 43+ minute hold and is experiencing ‘high call volumes’ with 14 callers ahead of me. This is unacceptable. How many people try to report child abuse and hang up?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. What is disputed is whether it is just or legal to convict Ward of felony crimes for acting peacefully and responsibly to prevent greater harm to the climate.” DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The appeal was filed by Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, who in 2015 was convicted of conspiring to violate federal safety standards before a 2010 explosion at a West Virginia mine that killed 29 people. After his release from prison, Blankenship announced that he intended to run for the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2022

.” At issue is the plea agreement given burglary suspect Kevin Enrique Valle, who was charged with three misdemeanors for destruction of property and false identification, and two felonies for burglary. ” Valle reportedly has more than 40 cases that have been brought against him in various counties throughout Virginia.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. She locked into a debate with the man’s public defender about the concept of mass incarceration, which she does not believe in.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 19, 2023

Senate Bill S211 would seal conviction records automatically after three years of a completed sentence for misdemeanors and seven years for felonies. Texas, Missouri and West Virginia are considering their own version of the bill. The individual must also not be under community supervision or have any new convictions.

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