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.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. She never specified any particular crime, just promising to bag Trump.

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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.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

We have never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before any election in 2024. The misdemeanors in this case, including falsifying these payments, expired with the passage of the statute of limitations.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations. The limit is two years for a misdemeanor and, even if he can convert this into a felony, it is not clear if he can meet the longer five-year limitation.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

In April, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg related to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election. Nevertheless, Comey chose this month to declare that, in the 2024 election, “it has to be Joe Biden.”

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