The Crime Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

justice system and reduce mass incarceration, argues a Washington and Lee University law professor. King in a paper published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Morefield Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law. justice system. Juries decided 8.2

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

The decision further indicated that longstanding firearms bans for felons were “presumptively lawful.” Raymond Holloway cannot possess firearms because of a misdemeanor conviction for driving under the influence. Yakima County, Washington. Under 18 U.S.C. § Holloway v. Rosen and Folajtar v. Rosen and Folajtar v.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 9, 2022

Several new states have joined those previously identified as reform leaders, and half a dozen other states have made “substantial improvements” to existing laws, according to the report. The survey and report card are the latest in a regular series of evaluations of progress in the nation’s restorative rights laws, produced by CCRC.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2022

In addition, the jury found Robertson guilty of the misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. They went to the Washington Monument area, attended a rally and then headed to the Capitol, where a mob was gathering. Both donned gas masks and approached the Capitol, where they joined an advancing group of rioters.

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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. The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

This year’s rich harvest brings the total number of criminal record reforms enacted in the past three years to over 400 separate laws,” the report said, celebrating what it said was a bipartisan commitment to end “unwarranted discrimination” against the formerly incarcerated. not disenfranchising at all).

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections. ” He would make such comments a gross misdemeanor subject to incarceration. What does that even mean? 6th insurrection.”

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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. People with felony or violent misdemeanor convictions, restraining orders, or serious mental illness are all included on the list.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

While progressive prosecutor Larry Krasner handily won his bid for re-election in Philadelphia, voters in the conservative suburbs of Long Island elected tough-on-crime candidates who opposed New York State’s new bail reform law. In Nassau, career local prosecutor Anne Donnelly upset Democratic state Sen.

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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. As part of the law, the reduced offenses came with relatively short and unsupervised local probations. student and Paul F.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

First, let’s look at the law. The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 25, 2022

Allen Whitaker is a resident of Washington, D.C., law allows the MPD to determine whether a person is a “suitable” applicant to own a handgun. Key to that decision was a fact absent here: a law passed in the interim by the state of New York that prevents any city or locality from reinstating a similar regulation.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Rittenhouse is facing six charges that range from first-degree homicide to a misdemeanor of being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. At this stage, the prosecution may celebrate even a misdemeanor conviction. It is either the product of systemic errors or systemic racism. Prosecution’s bumpy start, and finish.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 2, 2023

this would more likely constitute a criminal misdemeanor. In Bowman’s case, the criminal act is captured on videotape, but it is also likely a misdemeanor. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney. It could be a crime.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

The arrest appears to have been made under a state hate crime law that has long been criticized by some of us in the free speech community as dangerously vague. ” The law is similar to the type of vague speech codes that we have addressed on campuses but this is an actual criminal provision under state law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2023

He will plead to a couple of misdemeanors on tax violations without addressing how he actually made this money. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. It also has to be minor enough to get Hunter to take one for the team.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Louis’ extreme, particularly as a response to petty incidents, according to experts in law enforcement. I don’t think the actual terms of the neighborhood order of protection were clear to my client,” said Maureen Hanlon, an attorney for the public-interest law group ArchCity Defenders. “It But few have taken the practice to St.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

” However, the appellate panel corrected noted that such laws are narrowly construed in light of controlling precedent. The criminalization of speech has expanded in countries like France , Germany , and England though hate speech laws and speech regulation. Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416,

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

According to the Washington Post , after sending out the “freeze letter” to Citibank, Martin then tried and failed to get a federal magistrate judge to issue an actual criminal warrant: Interim U.S. Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she produces the Law and Chaos substack and podcast. magistrate judge in D.C.,

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Above The Law

APRIL 25, 2025

(Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Can Pauline Newman get a damned break? ” Judge Millett spoke conclusively, as though judicial impeachment requires the same “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” standard, but there’s at least a colorable argument that this isn’t actually the case.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

The new law allows those accused of a crime to ask for an extra court hearing if they believe they acted in self-defense. 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., The officer exhausted all other options.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Prosecutors also have faced policy and legal changes on decriminalization , parole opposition and other law-enforcement limitations. In some cities, like San Francisco, police largely stopped responding to shoplifting calls after state law was changed to make the theft of merchandise worth $950 or less just a misdemeanor.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

Restorative Justice programs can operate on various levels, IIP explains, noting that some communities defer to law enforcement, while others look to community-based organizations or nonprofits to work alongside state actors to implement change. Smaller Communities, Big Changes. Developing a Restorative Justice Program .

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2022

Ron DeSantis has signed a bill to outlaw protests outside private residences, making it a second-degree misdemeanor to picket or protest outside a person’s house to “harass or disturb” that person, reports the Washington Post. The law aims to prevent protests in Florida like the ones outside U.S.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Wisconsin Gun Laws. They had planned to engage in a lawful transfer of gun ownership when Rittenhouse turned 18, according to the Washington Post. Wisconsin state law clearly states that lawful gun owners can “generally open carry without a permit” as long as the person wielding the “dangerous weapon” is 18 or older.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. I am unaware of such a law in Pennsylvania, but these laws are rarely enforced.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2024

The controversial law came up in oral arguments over the access to the abortion pill in the Supreme Court. That 151-year-old law banned the mailing of materials that were deemed “obscene, lewd, [or] lascivious.” For some of us, this is a painful reminder that the law continues to linger on our books.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 26, 2023

As in the past, Garland continued to insist that the public must trust him and his department, because “You’ve all heard me say many times that we make our cases based on the facts and the law.” Once again, he reminded citizens that “these are not just words. Influence peddling may be lawful, but it is also corrupt.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2023

When I testified at the impeachment hearing, I maintained that it clearly does meet the standard of a “high crime and misdemeanor.” Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School. In my view, it did not matter the subject matter.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

. “We don’t have strong enough laws,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald told reporters at a Dec. That law doesn’t require the gun purchaser to use the safety device sold with their firearm. And, there are no federal laws mandating gun storage practices after the owner takes position of a legally purchased firearm.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The incident will trigger a new Georgia law on swatting and raise questions over legal responsibility for such lethal consequences from such crimes. ” Georgia’s new swatting law just came into effect on July 1st. It raised the crime for a first offender from a misdemeanor to a felony. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.,

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge despite massive unpaid taxes, gun violations, and work as an unregistered foreign agent, among other alleged crimes. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

After years of investigation, he and the DOJ agreed to a couple of tax misdemeanors, a papered-over gun charge, and no risk of jail time for the president’s son. Whatever interest — or ability — remains to prosecute Hunter Biden, Congress has a separate duty to confirm any high crimes and misdemeanors committed by President Biden.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Cities, too, are enforcing misgendering rules; for example, the New York City Human Rights Law allows for fines if employers, landlords or professionals fail to use a preferred name, pronoun or title. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2023

” While this has long been the favorite form of corruption in Washington, the Bidens are in a class of their own. Not only was the Justice Department allowing the statute of limitations to run on some offenses, but they would likely cut a plea deal for a couple of misdemeanors without any jail time.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The Democratic nominee was exposed recently by the Washington Post in streaming sex acts on a site called Chaturbate for money. Indeed, the site shows a long-standing anomaly in our criminal law. It would be illegal for Gibson to offer sex for money on the street under our prostitution laws. The Criminal Allegation Daniel P.

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