JURIST
DECEMBER 1, 2024
Cases involving Class F through I felony offenses and non-motor vehicle misdemeanors for 16- and 17-year-olds will remain in juvenile delinquency court. However, the law prohibits automatic suspension policies, requiring schools to make individualized decisions about students’ educational status during ongoing legal proceedings.
JURIST
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Molina was charged with a misdemeanor for violating Illinoiss Motor Vehicle Code requirement that “[n]o passenger may possess cannabis within any passenger area of any motor vehicle upon a highway except in a secured, sealed or resealable, odor-proof, child-resistant cannabis container that is inaccessible.”
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JURIST
MAY 21, 2022
The case traces back to 1993 when petitioner-appellant Daniel Doubek received a misdemeanor conviction for domestic violence after he broke into his estranged wife’s home and proclaimed threats. The DOJ found that his “conviction constituted a disqualifying ‘misdemeanor crime of domestic violence’ under federal law.”
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 23, 2021
Share The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that when police are pursuing someone for a misdemeanor, that pursuit does not automatically create the kind of emergency that allows the officer to follow the suspect into a home without a warrant. Once there, Weikert said, he smelled alcohol. But a California appeals court rejected that argument.
JURIST
APRIL 19, 2024
The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed House Bill 4156 on Thursday by a vote of 77-20, which proposes the creation of the criminal act of impermissible occupation, targeting individuals who willfully enter and remain in Oklahoma without legal authorization to be in the United States. Iowa also passed a similar law in March.
JURIST
JUNE 24, 2021
California that, under the Fourth Amendment, pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect does not always or categorically qualify as an exigent circumstance justifying warrantless entry into a home. The officer then questioned Lange and ultimately charged him with two vehicle code misdemeanors and an infraction.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 25, 2021
While California’s cannabis market is booming nearly five years after voters legalized recreational weed, the vast majority of pot sales are still underground, with the state’s illegal market approaching $8 billion annually, twice the volume of legal sales, reports Politico.
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