The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A mental health therapist in Washington D.C. has been indicted by a grand jury for 20 alleged crimes including felony fraud and first-degree theft for allegedly stealing more than $263,000 from the city’s Medicaid program through fraudulent claims, Keith L. Alexander reports for the Washington Post.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Limits Sweep of Law on Mandatory Minimum Sentences; Violent felonies committed recklessly do not count in deciding whether 15-year terms are required under the Armed Career Criminal Act, the justices ruled”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” Jordan S.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 21, 2023

The Washington, D.C., resident had fled the scene of a felony hit-and-run and ignored repeated police commands to remain calm. Keenan Anderson died after being repeatedly tased by Los Angeles Police Department officers.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2021

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested in Washington, DC, Monday on a misdemeanor count for burning a Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag last month. Upon a search incident to the lawful arrest, DC police found high-capacity ammunition feeding devices on Tarrio and subsequently also charged him with two felony counts.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 15, 2021

Years of convictions could be at risk following a Washington Supreme Court decision that struck down the state’s felony drug possession law. The state supreme…

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Florea had previously been convicted of a New York state firearms-related felony, so he was charged as a felon in possession of ammunition. Such statements included: “We need to all come to an agreement … and go armed … and really take back Washington,” and “Tomorrow may very [well] be the day war kicks off ….”.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Measure 114 will close this loophole, allowing law enforcement time to complete background checks and preventing people with a criminal felony record, domestic violence conviction, stalking offense, or for any other disqualifying condition from buying a gun.

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JURIST

JUNE 29, 2022

In December the US Department of Justice (DOJ) added charges of obstruction of justice, misprision of a felony, and wire fraud against Sullivan to an earlier indictment for obstruction of justice. states and Washington, D.C., Around 600,00 driver’s license numbers were also leaked. that it was too slow to disclose the hack.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The trial followed an FBI investigation and prosecution by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Colombia.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Yet criminal law has historically excluded Black women from voting by regulating when a person convicted of a crime may be eligible to vote, argues Washington and Lee University School of Law professor Carla Laroche. The policy had a disproportionate impact on Black women — a group that has historically helmed the fight for voting rights.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2022

The jury found Robertson guilty of five felonies: obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds while carrying a dangerous weapon, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building while carrying a dangerous weapon and tampering with a document or proceedings.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

they found a stash of weapons along with more than 10 fake federal badges and credentials, some of which had Downey’s name and photos, according to the Washington Post. A felony conviction would force Downey out of office. After authorities executed a search warrant on Brian Downey, a deputy mayor in Rockland, N.Y.,

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 17, 2023

16, 2021 and staffers took photos with the baby while she was passed out on the floor, María Luisa Paúl reports for the Washington Post. Caswell is now serving a 15-year sentence for felony endangerment in Julia Tutwiler Prison in Wetumpka, Alabama.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 23, 2021

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “ Supreme Court tightens, slightly, rules for police entering a home without a warrant.” ” David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “ In two very different California disputes, Supreme Court affirms private property rights.”

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Michael Jackson-Bolanos, the man who allegedly fatally stabbed Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll on October 21st, has been charged with felony murder committed while in perpetration or attempted perpetration of a larceny and/or a home invasion in the first degree, Kelsey Ables reports for the Washington Post.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A new Office of Gun Violence Prevention in California will reduce gun violence by keeping guns away from “dangerous individuals” and promoting research and data collection, the Washington Post reports.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A new report from forensic consulting firm SNA International recommends that Washington D.C. Attorney’s Office, which prosecutes felonies, had pledged to conduct post-conviction reviews to determine if faulty forensics work contributed to wrongful convictions.

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2021

Further, penalties would not increase to the felony level with subsequent arrests. Across the nation, nearly 30 states and Washington, D.C. In cases where the offender possesses less than 14 grams, the fine would be limited to $100 with no possibility of imprisonment, even for repeat offenders.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2022

Take Alaska , for example, which the report ranks as the lowest-performing state in terms of nearly every law category analyzed — receiving “F” grades for pardoning, felony relief, misdemeanor relief, certificates of relief, employment, and occupational licensing laws. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. in the past 50 years. “We

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The Crime Report

JUNE 28, 2021

Because the pandemic paused jury trials, many defendants will have spent more time jailed pretrial than incarcerated for their sentence, The Washington Post reports. Superior Court on felony charges as of mid-June. Carroll of the University of Alabama School of Law. Some 582 people were detained awaiting trial in D.C.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 12, 2021

over the death of her teenage son who was fatally shot by police in 2017, Christina Lopez spent thousands on guns, law enforcement said, and gave them to another son, 14, who was selling them to fellow gang members, reports the Washington Post. After reaching a $4.9 million settlement with the city of Fresno, Calif.,

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JURIST

MARCH 25, 2022

According to evidence presented during the trial, Fortenberry lied to and misled authorities during an interview at his Lincoln home in March 2019 and a follow-up meeting four months later in Washington. Each of the three felony charges carry a statutory maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The nonprofit OnPoint NYC, which operates the city’s two existing centers in Harlem and Washington Heights, reports that its staff have intervened in more than 1,000 potentially fatal overdoses since opening in November 2021.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

According to court documents , Robertson, 49, and co-defendent Jacob Fracker were both officers with the Rocky Mount, Virginia, Police Department and were off duty when they headed for Washington, D.C. in Robertson’s car on the morning of January 6, 2021.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 13, 2022

In addition, the legislature passed a separate measure that creates a mechanism for tracking statewide gun crime data and classifies theft of a firearm as a felony and increases penalties for using a gun during a drug deal.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Six deputies at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta who, in 2018, Tasered, beat and pepper-sprayed inmate Antonio May to death have been indicted by a grand jury on five charges, including felony murder, aggravated assault, battery and violation of oath of office by a public officer, reports the Washington Post.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 1, 2023

d)) was a serious felony (id., §§ 667, subd. (a)(1), Washington (2004) 542 U.S. Code, § 243, subd. (d)) a)(1), 1192.7, c)(8)), despite the jury’s failure to reach a verdict on the attached allegation that petitioner personally inflicted great bodily injury (id., § 12022.7, See Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000) 530 U.S. 466; Blakely v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 15, 2021

New Frontier Data, a cannabis industry research firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Felony cannabis arrests dipped in the first year of legalization, when COVID-19, civil unrest and spiking violence stretched police resources thin, but this year’s numbers are now on pace with those recorded in 2019. billion this year.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

But a report released Wednesday by the Manhattan Institute found that the rate of felonies per million subway rides nearly doubled from 1.45 Between 2020 and 2021, subway ridership rose 19 percent — yet violent felonies also continued to rise, by 8 percent. in 2019 to 2.71

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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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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2021

One of those charged was Javon Washington, 30, faces an array of charges due to his role in playing music and encouraging defiance to the police. There were clearly legitimate arrests on that night as individuals destroyed property and assaulted police. However, Washington’s charges seemed based on his playing music at the scene.

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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. In Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Connecticut, a version of a proposal drafted by Cynthia Lee, a law professor at George Washington University, has been adopted.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

This was followed by California’s Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, which reduced six felony offenses to misdemeanors and lowered the population eligible for prison and more extended felony probation terms. Additionally, from 1989 to 2017, there was a 46 percent decline in felony arrests. percent capacity in 2019.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

” Dan Satterberg, Prosecuting Attorney at King County in Washington State, agreed. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a backlog of serious felonies, and prosecutors need to decide priorities when it comes to drug cases, the panelists said. “They were passed to get rid of the problem by locking up the problem.”

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2022

A large swath of Washington, DC shut down recently after a gunman fired dozens of rounds from an apartment window toward a nearby school. People in Washington like to talk about the importance of collaboration, and I can think of no better example of that spirit than the work the ATF does, day-in and day-out, with local agencies.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

d)) was a serious felony (id., §§ 667, subd. (a)(1), Washington (2004) 542 U.S. Code, § 243, subd. (d)) a)(1), 1192.7, c)(8)), despite the jury’s failure to reach a verdict on the attached allegation that petitioner personally inflicted great bodily injury (id., § 12022.7, See Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000) 530 U.S. 466; Blakely v.

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