JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2021

We previously discussed how prosecutors in North Carolina, Georgia, Oregon, and other states have dismissed or downgraded many rioting cases, including cases of individuals who destroyed statues in broad daylight. The seven defendants were charged with felony counts of damaging property worth over $1,000.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee are among states where “reckless provision” of a firearm to a minor can lead to criminal charges. Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge? Shannon Smith and Mariell Lehman, defense attorneys for the parents, said in a Dec. That may be what it takes.”.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the Georgia trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, Judge Timothy Walmsley delivered a haymaker to the defense on the very eve of closing statements. The court ruled that Georgia’s prior citizen’s arrest law is only applicable if a person sees a felony committed and acts without delay. Here is the prior law: O.C.G.A.

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JULY 6, 2017

Allco is an owner, operator, and developer of solar energy projects throughout the country, including in Georgia and New York. New York Trial Court Set Parameters for Exxon’s Compliance with Attorney General’s Climate Change Investigation. The court indicated that the attorney general had broad power to propound the interrogatories.

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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 October, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the state’s six-week abortion ban. The grand jury responded by returning a no bill—effectively dismissing the case.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Jenna Ellis, one of former President Donald Trump’s ex-attorneys charged in the Georgia election interference case , pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. Ellis pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal , which reduced her charges from two felony counts to one.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2024

A Georgia judge on Wednesday dropped three charges pending against former US President Donald Trump as part of an ongoing election interference case. The post Georgia judge drops several charges pending against Trump in election interference case appeared first on JURIST - News. Kimbrough, 300 Ga.

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2025

The state also referenced trial Judge Juan Merchan’s intention of giving an unconditional discharge to Trump, which would enter a felony conviction on Trump’s record without the president-elect facing further penalties. Trump’s two federal criminal cases have been halted following his November election victory.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We recently discussed how figures like New York Times columnist Tom Friedman calling on people to move to Georgia to rig the vote in favor of a Democratic takeover of the Senate. It did not seem to matter to either the newspaper or Friedman that he was encouraging the commission of a felony. Yet, Friedman is not a lawyer.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 13, 2023

The civil lawsuit accuses Cohen of violating his attorney-client relationship by testifying as a key witness before a Manhattan grand jury, revealing “confidences” and “spreading falsehoods” which resulted in Trump being charged on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. As James D.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

Below is my column in the Hill on the recent decision in Georgia and the “odor of mendacity” raising out of various courtrooms across the country. District Attorney Fani Willis had described Wade as “ a Southern gentleman. It is the smell of not just selective prosecution but political bias in our legal system.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced Wednesday that six individuals have been indicted by a Nevada grand jury for falsely representing themselves as electors in the 2020 election. All six were charged with two felony counts for Offering a False Instrument for Filing and Uttering a Forged Instrument.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2023

This bargain had apparently involved dropping two of three felonies, but had not included an agreement on the sentence. Donald Trump will be convicted on numerous felony charges. The Georgia R.I.C.O Only if the attorney for the government states that it will not seek incarceration does this situation ease.

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JURIST

AUGUST 3, 2023

Former Republican State Representative Daire Rendon and former Trump-backed attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno were charged Tuesday over efforts to access and tamper with voting machines in Michigan following the 2020 US presidential election. Both politicians were arraigned in Oakland County’s Sixth Circuit Court.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 27, 2022

The list of civil cases includes the ongoing investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James into whether he falsely inflated the value of his assets in annual financial statements. Accordingly, they argued that Eastman could not withhold from Congress the subpoenaed evidence on the grounds of attorney-client privilege.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 21, 2022

Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe said the question was only what would be charged first, since Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” Attorney General Merrick Garland clearly is looking for evidence of criminal conduct and could seek an indictment.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

The scene from the 1931 movie “Frankenstein” came to mind this week as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg prepared an indictment of former President Donald Trump. The limit is two years for a misdemeanor and, even if he can convert this into a felony, it is not clear if he can meet the longer five-year limitation. It’s alive.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2022

In an on-screen world where the storyline of the central character has only gone from bad to worse and the plotlines have morphed into “good” versus “evil” narratives, the all-powerful superhero Attorney General Merrick Garland will sooner or later have to do battle with the all-powerful supervillain Donald J.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, in realpolitik we saw evidence of Trump’s victimhood of “rigged” elections starting to ebb in the defeat last week of Jim Jordan of Ohio for the House Speakership and in the guilty pleas of two of Trump’s attorneys and co-defendants Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro in the Georgia RICO case.

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