Criminal

January 17, 2020

The following post was originally included as part of our recently published memorandum “Selected Issues for Boards of Directors in 2020”. SEC Disclosure and Reporting Developments Recently, the US Securities and Exchange Commission continued to move forward with a number of disclosure effectiveness and simplification initiatives, the details of which are available in our Disclosure Simplification Tracker. Although many of these changes are administrative in nature, collectively they represent an ongoing shift…

Sentencing Law and Policy

The Sentencing Project reports briefly on “Top Trends in State Criminal Justice Reform, 2019”

By Douglas Berman

January 17, 2020

The folks at The Sentencing Project have this helpful new short brief reviewing “Top Trends in State Criminal Justice Reform, 2019.” The four-page document starts and ends this way: The United States is a world leader in incarceration and keeps nearly 7 million persons under criminal justice supervision. More than 2.2 million are in prison or jail, while 4.6 million are monitored in the community on probation or parole. More punitive sentencing laws and policies,…

Simple Justice

Seaton: News You Need To Know

By Scott Greenfield

January 17, 2020

You’re going to hear enough about the impeachment trial all week next week, so I thought today we’d go through some various items of interest you might have missed. Chief Justice Roberts used the phrase “OK Boomer’’ during oral arguments before the Supreme Court this week. According to court watchers, this was a test run for Roberts’ attempts to make Supreme Court opinions more accessible to millennials. Expect the Chief Justice to begin adding “yeet,”…

Simple Justice

The “Predator Pipeline” Fallacy

By Scott Greenfield

January 17, 2020

Come up with a cute name and people will believe anything. It usually involves a phrase that either rhymes or is alliterative, and that’s more than sufficient to get the unduly passionate on board. This time, it was USA Today that came up with the phrase, and Congresswoman Donna Shalala who’s pushing the syllogism. The NCAA will review its stance regarding athletes accused or convicted of sexual assault, the college sports organization said…

Criminal Lawyer Illinois

What is domestic battery under Illinois law?

By Sami Azhari

January 17, 2020

NOTE: This article was updated to reflect 2020 changes in Illinois law with passage of Public Act 101-0130. These changes became effective on January 1st, removing the Illinois statute of limitations for criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, and aggravated criminal sexual abuse. State law provides that domestic battery is a Class A misdemeanor offense. The maximum penalty for this offense is up to one year in jail in addition to a fine of…

Sentencing Law and Policy

Georgia parole board commutes death sentences shortly before today’s scheduled execution

By Douglas Berman

January 16, 2020

As reported in this AP piece, “Georgia’s parole board on Thursday spared the life of a prisoner just hours ahead of his scheduled execution, commuting his sentence to life without the possibility of parole.” Here is more: Jimmy Fletcher Meders, 58, had been scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Thursday at the state prison in Jackson. But the State Board of Pardons and Paroles released its decision granting him clemency around…

Sentencing Law and Policy

Rounding up some notable recent criminal justice discussions

By Douglas Berman

January 16, 2020

A busy week has meant less than the usual time for me to keep up with criminal justice news and commentary, and so I am here going to round up a number of pieces I quickly flagged that I am looking forward to finding time to read and reflect upon: From Esquire by Charles Pierce, “The Road to Real Criminal Justice Reform Goes Through Public Defenders: They are some of the only true heroes …

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East Boston – Assault & Battery – Dismissed

By Alexander Conley

January 16, 2020

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Salem – Assault & Battery, Larceny, Witness Intimidation – Dismissed

By Alexander Conley

January 16, 2020

Sentencing Law and Policy

“The Defender General”

By Douglas Berman

January 16, 2020

The title of this post is the title of this notable new article authored by Daniel Epps and William Ortman now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: The United States needs a Defender General — a public official charged with representing the collective interests of criminal defendants before the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court is effectively our nation’s chief regulator of criminal justice. But in the battle to influence the…