Paralegal Mentor

MAY 15, 2014

Cooley Law School. We discuss the Innocence Project and the Post Conviction DNA Testing Statutes that opened the door for exoneration of the innocent around the country. In 2006, Professor Mitchell received the Justice For All award from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan for her Innocence Project work.

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Blackstone Career Institute

JULY 17, 2024

A Certificate in Legal Research to Advance in Your Paralegal Career Legal research is a fundamental skill for any paralegal, enabling them to support attorneys, draft documents, and ensure that all legal proceedings are well-informed and accurate.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 23, 2023

Both cases arise under the federal firearm statute, 18 U.S.C. § Enacted by Congress in 1994, Section 922(g)(8) criminalizes gun ownership by anyone subject to a domestic-violence restraining order. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. In both United States v. Rahimi and Garland v. Cargill , the government the justices to weigh in.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Justice Clarence Thomas asked whether CFR courts, if federal rather than tribal, were ultimately Article I courts, potentially raising the issue of their authority to enforce criminal law (but perhaps not raising a double jeopardy issue).

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Paralegal-Edu.Org

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in a law office, particularly when a high-profile trial sparks public interest? Maybe youve pictured a bustling room filled with endless paperwork, or youve imagined a stern-faced attorney pacing around, phone in hand. However, its still a serious responsibility. Sound glamorous?

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2023

First, there is the gifted attorney and expert on issues ranging from trains to energy. If he recalls these events and messages, he will not only contradict prior denials but face potential criminal charges for any factual misrepresentations. We will have to wait for the public hearing to see which Hunter will appear.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

to be charged criminally for transporting 36 people to Sacramento. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

One of the greatest threats to free speech is the chilling effect caused by ambiguous or vague standards like the one contained in this statute. Most concerning is the call for European style speech limits in this country. Free speech demands bright lines.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

” The language of the statute in my view is unconstitutional due to its sweeping criminalization of any “curse or abuse” that could “provoke a breach of the peace.” ” However, the appellate panel corrected noted that such laws are narrowly construed in light of controlling precedent. .”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

That is common in sexual harassment cases and hostile workplaces where you can get around statute of limitations when at least one case is recent or ongoing. However, as shown by the Bill Cosby case , such evidence can create reversible error in criminal cases. Indeed, if charged, Cuomo is likely to use a Cosby defense.

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MyCase

AUGUST 25, 2023

Lawyers can also leverage technology in criminal justice to analyze evidence, locate specific details among vast amounts of data, research case law and statutes, collaborate with clients in different locations, and prepare compelling trial presentations. Attorneys often rely on digital signatures to execute service agreements.

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JURIST

APRIL 21, 2024

The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office in California announced charges on Thursday against three City of Alameda police officers for involuntary manslaughter of detainee Mario Gonzalez. The District Attorney’s Office charged the officers with involuntary manslaughter under section 192(b) of the California Penal Code.

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JURIST

APRIL 9, 2024

This law was part of the Howell Code , a comprehensive set of laws enacted by the territory’s First Legislative Assembly, encompassing procedural regulations and establishing criminal laws ranging from bigamy to duels to mayhem. Though Planned Parenthood initially lost, the case was revived after the passage of Roe v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Two months later, Gonzalez was charged with violating a state law that prohibits intentionally destroying, concealing, removing, or otherwise impairing government records. The district attorney ultimately declined to pursue the charges against Gonzalez.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. But they were still frog-marched into a plea bargain by their defense attorney or the prosecutor or the judge or some combination thereof. Photo by Brandy Brewer.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

Even Justice Clarence Thomas led off the questioning by noting that Arizona’s position that the statute governs would render Martinez “pretty worthless.”. Share In Shinn v. In my oral argument recap , I discussed how several of the conservative justices seemed genuinely to struggle with that question.

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Blackstone Career Institute

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The program includes 14 volumes covering a range of topics from criminal law to legal research and writing. Criminal Law Our correspondence Advanced Paralegal course in Criminal Law takes a deep dive into the criminal legal system.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As expected, Weiss refused to answer most of the questions, but seemed perfectly Nietzschean in explaining obvious conflicts between the accounts of whistleblowers and the Attorney General. Indeed, after years of denial, some Democratic members and the journalists are now admitting that Hunter Biden clearly broke the law.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Farm Bureau and North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein ask the court to grant review and reverse the 4th Circuit’s decision. Criminal law We are now in the home stretch. Last among the First (Amendment) cases is Blankenship v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc. , relisted after the Sept.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Kevin Steele, the Montgomery County district attorney who convicted Cosby, issued a statement that was embarrassing in its evasion of responsibility. Roughly 30 states and the District of Columbia have statutes allowing for recovery for wrongful convictions and imprisonment. Pennsylvania is not one of them (which is quite surprising).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

This incident could well prove a violation of a statute or regulation making the act “negligent per se.” However, the statute of limitations in three years for personal injury cases. They need only to file to toll that statute so they have considerable time and any delay due to a prosecution will not undermine their case.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler are suing attorney Abbe Lowell over public allegations of criminal conduct on their part. Lowell was hit with a $20 million defamation lawsuit that alleges “clear malice” in public allegations of criminally leaking grand jury material and other offenses.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The court clearly views this prosecution as brought in bad faith, as claimed by Netflix: Section 43.25 [under which Netflix is prosecuted] is a child pornography statute, but the Court is unconvinced that Cuties contains child pornography. 3d 874, 880 (5th Cir. 2018) (quoting Younger, 401 U.S. Here is the opinion: Netflix, Inc.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2024

Even before the deal was cut, Weiss allowed major crimes to expire under the statute of limitations (despite having an agreement to extend that period). He also agreed to a deal that would have avoided any jail time and would have given Hunter an immunity bath that would have drowned the entire criminal code.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

In 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions ended a controversial Bush- and Obama-era practice that allowed corporations to settle financial claims by making substantial “donations” to pre-selected non-profits. Reviving the practice would violate the Article I Appropriations Clause and a statute known as the McDade Amendment, Larkin Jr.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Professors of Second Amendment law and the Bay Colony Weapons Collectors argue that the founders deliberately broadened English gun rights, which, The Firearms Policy Coalition at George Mason University writes, already provided for the right to carry a weapon in public for self-defense. Discriminatory Practice. Weakness Of ‘Proper Cause’.

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LexForti

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Before establishment of this statute, there was the absence of any special law which could be entirely designated for the offenses perpetrated against minors. Instead, the offenses were recorded under the Indian Penal Code, 1860, or the Criminal Procedure Code. Narrowly Construed Cases.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

” The responsibility for this theater of the absurd is Attorney General Merrick Garland who has again shown a lack of strength and leadership at a key moment for his department. Now it appears that the controversial “sweetheart deal” was not the first choice of US Attorney David Weiss. Why would that be?

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Oklahoma that Congress had not clearly disestablished a Creek Nation reservation covering much of eastern Oklahoma, and thus the area remained Native American territory for the purposes of a federal criminal law, eliminating the state’s ability to prosecute crimes there. Holcombe v. Florida , 21-53.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2023

Perhaps for that reason, the Biden attorneys were apoplectic in maintaining that the gun charge was inked and sealed. He was convicted of the lawful possession of a firearm due to his drug use and sentenced to four years in prison. Some of those crimes were allowed to expire under the statute of limitations.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2023

I was highly skeptical of the charges brought by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who was later removed from the case due to ethical concerns. 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.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Justice Department inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to run on the most serious allegations involving payments from years going back to 2016. After all, Attorney General Merrick Garland had refused the calls of many of us to appoint a Special Counsel to look into the corruption scandal. It could have been worse.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

That celebrated role continued this year when Cohen was called to testify in the New York fraud case brought by Attorney General Letitia James. Trump attorney Alina Habba then asked him: “So you lied under oath in February of 2019? There is a five-year statute of limitations on lying to Congress. Not that I recall, no.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

While the statute of limitations may protect some, Durham has shown that he can use the crime of lying to federal investigators (18 U.S.C. Dolan’s attorney now describes him as a “witness” in the investigation. 1001) as a handy alternative. Targets must admit to prior misconduct or face a new charge.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

He argues that the court is allowed to take “judicial notice” of the agreement in light of the fact that it has been used previously in court, including the voluntary dismissal of her battery claims against Epstein’s former attorney, Alan Dershowitz in a parallel case. See Giuffre v. Dershowitz , No. 19-cv-03377-LAP (S.D.N.Y.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Now, the Michigan Attorney General and others are suggesting that Republicans who oppose certification or even meet with President Donald Trump on the issue could be criminally investigated or charged. Chief Justice John Roberts eviscerated what he called the “boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute.”

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