2024 Criminal Law Felony 
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 27, 2023
As such, the state law on the seizure of the weapons stands. Thus, McCloskey’s guilty plea, for which he obtained the benefit of the State dismissing a felony charge punishable by jail time, survived the pardon and importantly, with respect to the issue at hand in this replevin action, triggered the guns’ forfeiture.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 10, 2023
There is no question that the best course in dealing with a felonious president is to first remove the president from office through the impeachment process and then indict the former president in the wake of the Senate conviction. He could wait to see if Biden does not run for reelection or loses in 2024.
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JonathanTurley
MARCH 18, 2024
This came after the Justice Department had allowed the statute of limitations to run out on major felonies and scuttled efforts to conduct searches and interviews. As the plea agreement fell apart in court, the prosecutor admitted that he had never seen a defendant given such a deal over his long career.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 24, 2024
Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. New Yorkers and the media insisted that such selective prosecution was in defense of the “rule of law.” On the New Yorker map circa 2024, once you cross the Hudson River eastward, you enter a legal wilderness.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 10, 2025
By using federal violations that were never charged, let alone tried, Bragg turned a misdemeanor into dozens of felonies and essentially tried Trump for federal offenses. million New York votes, or 42.7%, in the 2024 election. Bragg took a long-dead misdemeanor and zapped it back into life with a novel and unfounded theory.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 15, 2024
After an absurd $450 million decision courtesy of Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will bring his equally controversial criminal prosecution over hush money paid to former porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. They’ve charged him with everything short of ripping a label off a mattress.
JonathanTurley
MAY 1, 2023
New leaks from the Justice Department investigation have indicated that prosecutors are considering four charges : two misdemeanor counts for failure to file taxes, a single felony count of tax evasion related to a business expense for one year of taxes and a potential felony count on falsifying a form linked to a gun permit.
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