JOYCE VANCE

Updated 05-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about JOYCE VANCE!

Spike in ‘needle-in-the-arm deaths’ prompts heroin summit in Birmingham: ”This is a public health crisis,” said U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance.

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: she served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017 . she was one of the first five U.S. attorneys nominated by president Barack Obama . she successfully prosecuted five Boaz, Alabama, police officers charged with Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights . she moved to the Appellate Division in 2002 and became the Chief of that Division in 2005 . Vance co-chaired the AGAC’s Criminal Practice Subcommittee . she charged the first Material Support of Terrorism case in the Northern District of Alabama in 2011 . the director of the Alabama Small Business Development Consortium was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison . he used his position to obtain funds meant for small businesses for his own use . in 2013, Vance successfully prosecuted the director her office arrested and charged more than 40 heroin dealers and traffickers in one week . her office aggressively prosecuted heroin traffickers throughout her time in office . she also held a community summit and initiated community-wide planning in 2011, she successfully challenged Alabama’s immigration bill, HB 56, on constitutional grounds . the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found key portions of the law unconstitutional . in 2013, the District Court entered a Vance launched a statewide investigation into inhumane conditions in Alabama’s prisons . she adopted a “smart on crime” approach to violent and recidivist crime . Vance prioritized qui Vance’s office took a zero tolerance stance on disaster fraud . she successfully prosecuted a ring of five people who conspired to make $2.4 million in fraudulent claims . Vance is the daughter-in-law of federal judge Robert S. Vance, who was murdered by a mail bomb in 1989 .