- Grilling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Felony Quotes
What a felony charge really costs, from inside the courtroom.
These felony quotes come from the courtroom itself: a trial lawyer's near-perfect record in felony jury trials, and a plea to stop branding people with a felony over what's really a personal weakness. It's a hard look at Court outcomes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Court Cases
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
- Court Cases
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony conviction makes finding gainful employment difficult, if not impossible.
- Cats
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.
- Often
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter if that felony happened three weeks ago or thirty-five years ago - for the rest of your life, you've got to check that box, knowing full well the odds are sky-high your application is going straight to the trash.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what poll taxes and literacy tests ultimately could not, because those laws were struck down. But felony disenfranchisement laws had been allowed to stand.
- Events
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
- Difficult Things
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- Nov 07, 2020