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US Supreme Court refuses to reinstate a Florida law targeting drag shows

JURIST

.” Anyone found to be in violation fo the law would be charged with a misdemeanor. Hamburger Mary also claimed that the law violated of the US Constitution’s First Amendment and that the statute was too vague to be properly enforced.

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Supreme Court will address discoverability of Facebook posts in criminal cases and will resolve an intra-division split about standing to enforce a city ordinance

At the Lectern

” The statute makes it a misdemeanor or an infraction to violate a city ordinance and says a violation “may be prosecuted by city authorities in the name of the people of the State of California, or redressed by civil action.” 2024) 16 Cal.5th Hardin (2024) 15 Cal.5th 5th 1003 (see here ). In People v.

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Missouri Court: Mark McCloskey Pardoned But Still Guilty

JonathanTurley

Mark McCloskey later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors to end the case, but was then granted a pardon. The department denied Guastello’s application for another liquor license based on the statute’s mandate that no person convicted of a liquor law violation could receive a liquor license. Stephenson (Mo.

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A Criminal Case Fifty Years In The Making

The Crime Report

Turns out the payments of hush money to at least two women—misdemeanor offenses—were not really what these indictments were all about. 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.

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

JonathanTurley

No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the defendant was anyone other than Trump. Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election. Dunne and Mark F.

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The Trump Sentencing: Curtain to Fall on Merchan’s Hamlet on the Hudson

JonathanTurley

Since Trumps conviction in May 2024, Merchan has contemplated his sentencing options. Acting Justice Juan Merchan will finally decide whether to be or not to be the judge to sentence Trump to jail. Spoiler alert: He appears set to avoid a jail sentence and likely reversal.) They will likely be disappointed.

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

JonathanTurley

Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. The only way to get beyond the passage of the statute of limitations on the dead misdemeanor for falsifying business records had been to allege that the bookkeeping violation in question occurred to conceal another crime.

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