JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It did not seem to matter to either the newspaper or Friedman that he was encouraging the commission of a felony. On the Republican side, Florida attorney Bill Price is facing a more direct and serious investigation than Abrams (who has not been personally implicated in such actions). Yet, Friedman is not a lawyer. It was Nov.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2024

In the immediate aftermath of the law’s passage, the families of three transgender teenagers sued Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, the state’s health department, its medical board, and several other officials. The law also curtailed then-ongoing gender-affirming care for minor patients.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. percent of violent felony arrests were of suspects with open cases in 2019. That is what is happening.”. Critic: Bail Reform Made Things Worse. percent and 25.1

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

With the Florida broadcast airwaves overrun with political ads in the last few days - the great majority of them attack ads - many ask why do broadcasters keep running those ads? Of course, there are revenue considerations. If the ads just violate someone's property interests, or could give rise to some sort of civil liability (e.g.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. In Florida, an amendment to enshrine abortion protections in the state’s constitution will appear on the state’s 2024 ballot.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

During the pandemic, federal jury trial rates fell as low as zero percent — meaning not a single case was moving forward in the court system, wrote the paper’s author, Brandon Marc Draper , currently Assistant County Attorney in Harris County, Texas. Similarly, Florida experts believe their backlog is up to one million cases.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

And the court denied review to a group of 13 much-relisted cases that raised the question whether felony defendants have a constitutional right to a 12-person jury rather than just a six-person one. Florida and Moore v. Greenwood represents the exclusive way of establishing juror bias. Smith , 23-167 Issues : (1) Whether Hall v.

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2025

Dauphin County District Attorney Francis Chardo announced that Balmer will be charged with attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson, and aggravated assault against an enumerated person. Trump also faced a similar attempt later in September at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida residence, but was unharmed.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

And over a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the justices declined to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. The justices should also weigh in, Avenatti contended, on whether an attorney can be held liable for extortion for his conduct during litigation.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

Trump was totally wrong and caught off guard by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Turns out Garland was playing chess and Trump and his attorneys were playing checkers. The new law upped the crime from a misdemeanor to a felony, and from a maximum of one year in jail to a maximum of five years in prison. Gregg Barak.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

The case is being prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for DC and the DOJ National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. In December, two individuals from Florida and Washington were sentenced for assaulting law enforcement. . Seditious conspiracy can result in a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court also temporarily enjoined two felony riot statutes because they went “far beyond” the State’s “appropriate interest” in criminalizing participation in a riot with acts of force or violence. The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed a lawsuit in federal district court in the Southern District of Florida claiming that the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 20, 2023

That statement by President Joe Biden last year to a Florida mayor seems more than just a boast this week after a whistleblower at the Internal Revenue Service surfaced. attorney for the District of Delaware. However, false statements to Congress are criminal acts and the allegations have to be taken seriously.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Bidens are suffering from legal exposure in actions concerning everything from withholding child support to peddling influence to federal felonies. Having had his driver’s license suspended in Florida , Frank nonetheless rented a Jaguar and had a younger man whom he had met at a Whole Foods driving him. When attorney John F.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

He had been convicted of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in October 2017. A second activist who filmed the action was convicted of felony conspiracy to commit criminal mischief and conspiracy trespass, a misdemeanor. Martin County, Florida v. 1:18 -cv-00333 (D.D.C.,

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Yet at the press conference and Q & A following the arraignment District Attorney Alvin Bragg told the world that the 34 felony charges brought against defendant Trump were nothing more than the Manhattan office engaging in its everyday prosecution of “bread and butter” white-collar crimes.

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JURIST

JULY 15, 2024

In November 2022, US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith to serve as special counsel with oversight of two investigations related to Trump. Second, he was to continue an investigation that had turned up multiple classified documents in various unsecured locations throughout Trump’s primary Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2022

Here is the column: The unprecedented raid on former President Trump’s home in Florida has set off firestorms of celebration and recrimination across the country. Although prosecutors reportedly wanted to file serious felony charges, Petraeus also was given a generous plea deal without jail time.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Avenatti claims that he did not defraud his client – he “at worst … abus[ed] his fiduciary duty as Franklin’s attorney by leveraging Franklin’s claims to pursue compensation for himself.” Avenetti argues that under the 2nd Circuit’s rule, what would normally be handled by bar discipline is converted into a 20-year felony.

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Above The Law

MARCH 26, 2025

Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc. Trump) What its about: In this case the Farmworker Association challenged Section 10 of Florida’s SB 1718, which regulates the transportation of individuals who have entered the U.S. James Uthmeier (SDFL 3/11/2025) Judge Roy Altman (R. unlawfully. Davis What its about: Houston v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Epstein pleaded guilty to a Florida state charge of felony solicitation of underage girls in 2008 and served a 13-month jail sentence. attorney Alexander Acosta was inexplicably made labor secretary under Trump. He was accused of abusing more than forty minor girls (with many between the ages of 13 and 17).

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 7, 2022

Here is the column: The conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell last week on five of six felony counts r epresented the first guilty verdict to come out of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal since his death. Epstein pleaded guilty to Florida charges of felony solicitation of underage girls in 2008 and served a 13-month jail sentence.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to mishandling classified White House documents that were recovered at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Smith’s case could end with a stroke of a pen.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Nor was there any discussion or even mention of the devastating ruling on Tuesday against Trump and his family confirming what attorney Michael Cohen –Trump’s former fixer — had testified before Congress on February 27, 2019 that the “business empire” was nothing more than a racket.

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