The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] announced Thursday that it has indicted [indictment, PDF] 12 Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) officers for hacking the emails of employees and volunteers of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, including that of campaign...
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ON AUGUST 1, 2017 over 400 new laws took effect in Louisiana.
LEGAL UPDATES:
The "Blue Lives Matter" bill is the first of its kind in the state, which makes it a hate crime to target any law enforcement officer, active or retired, or first responder in the state.
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In a memo dated September 24, 2014 - Guidance Regarding § 851 Enhancements in Plea Negotiations – Attorney General Eric Holder directed all federal prosecutors that such enhancements “should not be used in plea negotiations for the sole or predominant purpose of inducing a defendant to...
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The Sentencing Commission voted to retroactively apply its guideline amendment reducing the offense levels in the drug quantity table by two levels. The Commission’s decision includes a requirement that reduced sentences cannot take effect until November 1, 2015. Read the full text of the...
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The Court granted cert in Mellouli v. Holder (No. 13-1034) to decide the following question: Whether, to trigger deportability under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(B)(i), which provides that a noncitizen may be removed if he has been convicted of violating “any law or regulation of a State, the...
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The Supreme Court issued a unanimous, consolidated opinion in Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie (Nos. 13-132, 13-212), declining to extend the search incident to arrest exception in United States v. Robinson, 414 U.S. 218 (1973) “to searches of data on cell phones, and...
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The Supreme Court decided Abramski v. United States (No.12-1493) and granted certiorari in Elonis v. United States (No. 13-983).
In Abramski, the Court held that a straw purchaser can be convicted under 18 U. S. C. §922(a)(6) for making false statements about “any fact material to the...
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