Attorney Constitutional Law Court Rules Criminal Law 
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 29, 2022
In overturning the death sentence, the Supreme Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment guarantees a defendant the right to choose the objective of his defense and to insist that his counsel refrain from admitting guilt. After McCoy , Tyler unsuccessfully sought relief in Louisiana state courts. In Tyler v.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 19, 2021
The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. The law requires that individuals “shall as soon as reasonably possible notify the prosecuting attorney, law enforcement, medical assistance, or other public officials.” In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule.
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JonathanTurley
MAY 12, 2021
.” However, the appellate panel corrected noted that such laws are narrowly construed in light of controlling precedent. This includes Virginia state court rulings that the statute must be confined to speech that has “a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person to whom, individually, [the language is] addressed.”
JonathanTurley
JULY 24, 2021
As a criminal defense attorney, I have long been a critic of the degree to which the FBI often pushes defendants to take actions to trigger criminal charges. 540 (1992), the Court ruled that a Nebraska man convicting of receiving child pornography through the mail was entrapped. The answer is yes. In Jacobson v.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 26, 2024
It has been almost 50 years since the high court ruled presidents have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits in Nixon v. The court held ex-President Richard Nixon had such immunity for acts taken “within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his official responsibility.” Fitzgerald. Yet in 1974’s United States v.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 24, 2024
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) ran on a pledge to bag former president Donald Trump. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg also pledged to get Trump. However, the court denied him the right to have a jury rule on the key issue of whether these prior offenses occurred on different occasions.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 20, 2022
Officials then moved under “Red Flag” laws to seize four rifles and three handguns. Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey focused on his statement that “Chinese need to commit mass shootings against America for xenophobia and betrayal. Come on my Chinese folks, white graduating is open season for y’all.”.
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