JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

If HB 285 is passed into law, public librarians could be guilty of misdemeanors for violating the state’s criminal obscenity provisions. This means that state governments are free to pass laws that limit obscene speech. However, the bill keeps the exemption for college and university libraries.

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JURIST

MARCH 20, 2024

The passage puts the midwestern state on track to join Texas in enforcing state immigration laws that operate independently of the federal immigration system, meaning they are not directly tied to or governed by federal immigration policies. In some instances, such as having prior convictions, this state crime could escalate to a felony.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2024

In her dissent, joined by Justice Jackson, Justice Sotomayor argued that the Texas law “upends the federal-state balance of power that has existed for over a century, in which the National Government has had exclusive authority over entry and removal of noncitizens.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

While the case appeared before the court on a First Amendment challenge, the justices argued the central issue actually dealt with “the general question of whether a district court may enjoin a government from enforcing a law against non-parties to the litigation.” ” The case at issue , Griffen v.

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JURIST

JULY 16, 2023

There, the Court held that when the plain language of the Second Amendment covers an individual’s conduct, the government must affirmatively demonstrate that the regulation is “consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” Violations of the law are considered a misdemeanor.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2023

Director Nils Muižnieks issued his statement after Greece’s Court of Appeal of Mytilene dropped some of the misdemeanor charges previously laid against the volunteers. The statute of limitations for the remaining misdemeanor charges against the two will expire in February. All we want is justice. We want this to go to trial.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Share A divided Supreme Court on Thursday denied Florida’s request to allow it to temporarily enforce a law that makes it a misdemeanor to allow children at drag performances. The brief unsigned order means that the state cannot apply the law anywhere in the state while a Florida restaurant’s challenge to the law continues. Florida Gov.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Local government opposition, high taxes and competition from unlicensed businesses are complicating California’s push to build a thriving legal market. Many in the industry say that the current penalty of a misdemeanor and $500 fine is simply too low to dissuade illicit activity.

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CourtTechBulletin

MAY 17, 2022

With technical assistance support from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Government Criminal Justice Innovation Lab,3 the teams met over several months to review findings from the court and jail data, evaluate the available research, and examples of innovation, and develop consensus local solutions.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The law creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. It avers that the law “unconstitutionally intrudes on the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate the entry and removal of noncitizens and therefore is field preempted.”

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 7, 2022

According to the Justice Center of the Council of State Governments, despite making up only 1.4 The Justice Center made several policy recommendations, including reclassifying lower-to-mid-level felony drug possession into misdemeanor offenses. White people, on the other hand, often were charged with heroin sale or possession.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Several veterans are among the far-right extremists charged with plotting coordinated attacks on the Capitol, including Oath Keepers members who marched up the Capitol steps in a “stack” formation used by military infantrymen, essentially using training they received by the military against their own government.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 23, 2021

.” And Samantha Hawkins of Courthouse News Service reports that “ Hot Pursuit May Still Require Warrant, High Court Rules; The government had argued that police in any kind of a chase don’t need a warrant to enter a house, regardless of whether the crime at issue is a felony or a misdemeanor.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The bill also gives the court jurisdiction over misdemeanors, violations of city ordinances and felony preliminary matters. They also argued that the law damaged the appointment power of local elected officials and took away one of the local governments key functions namely enforcement of its own laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Raymond Holloway cannot possess firearms because of a misdemeanor conviction for driving under the influence. Issue : Whether a lifetime firearms prohibition based on a nonviolent misdemeanor conviction violates the Second Amendment. . § Rosen and Folajtar v. Holloway v. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In hindsight, we also know that “broken windows” policing strategies that focus scarce government resources on arresting and prosecuting low-level offenders for public disorder crimes like vandalism, panhandling and vagrancy do not deter violent crime or make our neighborhoods safer.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

At the time, Democrats were complaining about a sudden move to rush forward a stopgap measure to keep the government funded and complaining that they did not have enough time to consider the bill. this would constitute a criminal misdemeanor. An investigation into why it was pulled is underway.” Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.)

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

require some type of government-issued license. Last month, The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center launched the Fair Chance Licensing Project , an unprecedented effort to track reforms that reduce barriers to employment for people with criminal and juvenile records across all 50 states. Nicole Jarrett, Ph.D.,

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) has pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor after he was caught on videotape pulling a fire alarm in the middle of a key vote to avoid a government shutdown. The misdemeanor was the charge that I discussed when this first arose.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

States and local governments have long contracted with private prisons as a way to outsource carceral needs to cheaper sources of labor. She added that private prisons often end up costing the government more in the long-run than what was saved in the short-run compared to the costs of public prisons. Photo via Not in My Lobby.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Nationally, about 100,000 people serve sentences for misdemeanors in jails on any given day, according to estimates from the Prison Policy Initiative, a criminal justice think tank. The lack of government attention to jail voting has persisted even as the number of pretrial detainees in the United States has more than tripled since the 1970s.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Moerschel is additionally charged with destruction of government property and aiding and abetting. Fifty-five people have been charged to date with crimes related to the attack on the US Capitol.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The JAMA editorial notes that there are few Park cases for two primary reasons: [The government] may lead. First, regardless of Park, under the FDC Act, any individual who commits an FDC Act violation can be held liable for a strict liability misdemeanor, regardless of whether the individual is a responsible corporate officer.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hong Kong residents in the US are not covered if they voluntarily returned to Hong Kong, have not continuously resided in the US, have been convicted of a felony or two misdemeanors, are subject to extradition, or have otherwise been determined by US officials to be unsafe to remain.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2021

From March to May 2020, bookings decreased by 41 percent, with a dramatic decrease in bookings for misdemeanors and lower level felonies. While inmate populations did not decrease, and actually made a gradual increase throughout the rest of the year, figures plateaued in October, and by Dec.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

One of the high points of last year is the fact that lawmakers in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government all collectively enacted 151 legislative bills that took action to restore rights and opportunities to people with an arrest or conviction record. Key Reforms from 2021. not disenfranchising at all).

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 27, 2022

Under RLUIPA, the government may not “impose a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person residing in or confined to an institution,” unless the government proves the restriction is “in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest” and is “the least restrictive means of furthering” that government interest.

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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.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2022

Government, despite their origins. “In The experts filing argued that ultimately, CFR courts are functionally tribal courts, just tribal courts that receive funding and operational support from the federal government. This tribal control was then strengthened by the “Indian New Deal,” or the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

cities experienced a 30 percent jump in killings in 2020, the biggest one-year increase since the federal government began compiling national figures in the 1960s. The focus on public safety in many city elections comes as large U.S. In many cities, the number of homicides continued to rise this year.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 15, 2023

Instead, almost all criminal convictions—about 98 percent of those in federal court and an estimated 94 percent of those in state court—are the product of guilty pleas, and data suggest s that the percentage of low-level misdemeanor convictions that result from pleas is even higher.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2021

That creates a dangerously fluid and subjective basis for criminal charge, even a misdemeanor. All persons guilty of an affray shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. . — Whoever shall resist, obstruct, or oppose any officer as defined in s. 775.082 or s. Here are the provisions: 870.01?

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“ Travis County judges can’t hear appeals from migrants arrested under Texas border security push, court rules ” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

922(g) , the federal statute barring people with prior felony convictions from possessing firearms, the government must prove that the defendant knew he was a felon at the time he possessed a firearm. .” Rehaif broke new ground by holding for the first time that, under 18 U.S.C. §

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 25, 2022

The notice explained that the gas-station incident, combined with Whitaker’s misdemeanor criminal history that had been evaluated in his originally approved application for a gun license, demonstrated a “propensity for violence or instability” unsuitable for a firearm owner. Whitaker v. Central Specialties, Inc.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A federal judge is set to hear arguments December 19 over a state-run court in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city of Jackson that the Justice Department says would continue the state’s long history of trying to suppress Black people’s right to participate in government, Emily Wagster Pettus reports for the Associated Press.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

At sentencing, the government sought an enhancement under the ACCA; it claimed that three of Borden’s prior felony convictions were violent felonies. He asserted that one of the felonies the government cited included recklessness, and, therefore, was not a violent felony. The district court ruled for the government and the U.S.

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