Afternoon Briefs: First Step Act frees crack cocaine offender; judge vacates port-of-entry asylum rule
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Decision striking down part of sex offender law is ‘the talk of the prison,’ lawyer says
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Judge retires after appeals court removes her from sex offender cases, cites animus toward PD office
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Repeat offender who met with clients at bar association law library gets time for posing as attorney
A nonlawyer who brazenly offered his services as an immigration attorney and met with clients in the Brooklyn Bar Association’s law library, which he called… ABA Journal Daily News
First-time offender blames lawyers for 33-year DUI term, but judge points to beer pong video
Lawyers for Kenneth Richard Jenkins had hoped for a four- to eight-year prison term in his driving-under-the-influence case because he was a first-time offender and… ABA Journal Daily News
Posner opinion upholds lifetime GPS bracelet for sex offender who isn’t ‘just a harmless old guy’
A federal appeals court has upheld a Wisconsin law requiring convicted sex offenders to wear a GPS ankle bracelet for the rest of their lives… ABA Journal Daily News
Prep school grad’s lawyers seek to dismiss computer conviction putting him on sex offender registry
Lawyers for Owen Labrie, who in August was acquitted of raping a 15-year-old classmate, filed a motion Friday asking a New Hampshire court to… ABA Journal Daily News