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Researchers studying the effects of California's three-strikes law have found a puzzling trend: older adults are being arrested for felonies in droves, while felony arrests of juveniles are dropping. The trend can be attributed to an "enormous increase in drug abuse" by an aging population, according to Mike Males of the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, during a three-strikes symposium at the University of Southern California earlier this month.
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson on Tuesday pleaded guilty to two felony charges involving thousands of dollars in bribes he solicited as part of a "pay-to-play" culture that federal authorities say he fostered throughout his two terms in office. Johnson, who led Prince George's from 2002 to December and was the county's top prosecutor for eight years before that, entered his guilty plea in federal court in Greenbelt on charges of extortion and witness and evidence tampering.
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Virginia Tech place-kicker Cody Journell and two other Blacksburg men charged with breaking into the home of a Hokies basketball player were sent back to jail Thursday night after a Montgomery County judge denied them bond. Journell, a 20-year-old who graduated from Giles High School, Matthew D. Dunton, 23, and Matthew I. Brady, 21, are charged with entering the house of Dorenzo Hudson and Sean Allen with a weapon, with the intent to commit larceny, assault and battery, or other felony, according to warrants. Hudson, a starter on the Virginia Tech men's basketball team, played in Thursday night's game against Eastern Michigan.
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ELLSWORTH, Maine -- Personnel from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested an Ellsworth High School custodian Friday morning on two counts of felony aggravated drug trafficking. Frank Trundy, 53, of Ellsworth was charged with aggravated trafficking in two kinds of prescription painkillers, some of which were prescribed to him and others he allegedly purchased from an Ellsworth High student, according to Ellsworth police Sgt. Glen Moshier.
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A Kanawha County grand jury last week indicted 143 people on felony charges. An indictment is not a finding of guilt. It means only that a grand jury has determined there is enough evidence of a crime to warrant a trial by jury.
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A woman told police that her ex-boyfriend held her and her son against their will for about six hours Wednesday, reportedly beating her, cutting her hair and forcing sex, according to an Evansville Police Department affidavit. Willie Charles Steverson was held in the Vanderburgh County Jail without bond on seven preliminary felony charges.
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C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray appointed a campaign supporter and Facebook friend, Cherita Whiting, as a $65,000-a-year "special assistant" in the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) in January after being warned months earlier that she had not disclosed a prior felony conviction when she applied for previous city council employment, according to an e-mail obtained by The Washington Times. The e-mail's author, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the subject, confirmed bringing the matter to candidate Gray's attention because of concerns that undisclosed criminal convictions involving one of Mr. Gray's most ardent supporters and vocal opponents of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty could harm the campaign.
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In State v. Heemstra, the Iowa Supreme Court overturned nearly twenty-five years of precedent controlling the felony-murder doctrine by adopting the merger limitation as applied to felonious assault. In so doing, the Court brought ambiguity to statutory interpretation in the State of Iowa and created confusion in an area of criminal law that previously had been clear. This Note highlights the mysteries surrounding the felony-murder doctrine and its subdoctrines and provides analysis of Iowa's approach to the felony-murder doctrine. As a result, this Note critiques the State v. Heemstra decision and proposes that the Iowa Supreme Court show increased deference to the legislature and to precedent, especially when dealing with a criminal-law topic that Iowa courts have repeatedly stressed ...
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Under state law, if you are a convicted felon, certain rights are stripped from you, e.g. the right to vote. However, if at sentencing, adjudication on your sentencing was withheld, your conviction is lessened in the eyes of the state government. Nevertheless, under federal immigration law, a withhold of adjudication in sentencing is the same as a conviction. As a green-card holder, the consequences of criminal convictions can be severe and could result in deportation. Some persons are taken into immigration custody while on probation, others are taken from criminal prison or jail straight into immigration custody. A person in your friend's situation should definitely sit down with an immigration lawyer with his criminal file in order for his immigration situation to be clarified. Apply...
