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Ohio grand jury declines to charge woman with abuse of corpse after at-home miscarriage

JURIST

The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office stated that, after evaluating the case, they believed Watts did not violate the Ohio Criminal Statute of Abuse of a Corpse. Watts had initially been charged with felony abuse of a corpse in October after Warren County police found the remains of her pregnancy in her toilet and trash.

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Missouri Court: Mark McCloskey Pardoned But Still Guilty

JonathanTurley

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. banc 2016), Hill pleaded guilty to and was convicted of felony forgery.

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The Odor of Mendacity: 2024 Could Turn on Smell of Selective Prosecution from Georgia to New York

JonathanTurley

It is the smell of not just selective prosecution but political bias in our legal system. 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.

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A Criminal Case Fifty Years In The Making

The Crime Report

A very bold and impressive broad-gauged indictment that few, if any legal pundits, saw coming. Ergo, there were no misdemeanor charges, only first-degree felonies. I believe that all these cases if prosecuted pose serious threats to the viability of Trump’s presumed GOP candidacy for 2024. Kaplan rejected the merger.

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The Land that Law Forgot: The Supreme Court and the New York Legal Wasteland

JonathanTurley

With the Trump trial, Manhattan has become a type of legal wilderness where prosecutors use the legal system to hunt down political rivals and thrill their own supporters. Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution.

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US court dismisses Trump classified documents indictment on constitutional grounds

JURIST

None of the statutes cited as legal authority for the appointment … gives the Attorney General broad inferior-officer appointing power or bestows upon him the right to appoint a federal officer with the kind of prosecutorial power wielded by Special Counsel Smith. After careful study of this seminal issue, the answer is no.

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The Trump Trial in Manhattan is an Indictment of the New York Legal System

JonathanTurley

Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election. This week will highlight the damage done to New York’s legal system because of this unhinged crusade. The funding was hidden as legal expenses by then-Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias.

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