The measure is backed by the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Florida Public Defenders Association. The Florida Police Chief Association had opposed the measure at a previous committee stop.
“The government should have to meet the same standards and processes for accessing our personal information in the digital form as the constitution set out for information when it existed only in hard copy,” Vittorio Nastasi of the Reason Foundation told the panel.
SB 144 would establish as a legislative finding that Floridians “should not have to choose between using household technological enhancements and conveniences or preserving the right to privacy in one’s home.”
Senators Durbin and Grassley re-introduce Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act
Back in 2019, I was pleased to be able to blog here about a legialative effort to prohibit judicial reliance on acquitted conduct in the federal sentencing system. I am now pleased to now be able to again highlight that Senators Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley are again the bipartisan sponsors of the latest version of the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act. This March 4 press release from Senator Durbin s office provides these details:
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the lead sponsors of the landmark
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Caption The standstill in jury trials has resulted in a backlog of thousands of cases that judges and attorneys fear will take years to catch up. Credit: John McCosh/Georgia Recorder (file photo)
Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Melton said he’s planning to lift a year-long restriction Tuesday to allow jury trials to resume that have been on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The standstill has resulted in a backlog of thousands of cases that judges and attorneys fear will take years to catch up and leaves many Georgians facing criminal charges stuck in jail or in perpetual limbo waiting for their cases to get resolved.
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