Attorney Law School Misdemeanor Statute 
JonathanTurley
MAY 28, 2024
There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. It wasn’t hush money. It was consideration.”
JonathanTurley
MAY 27, 2024
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. For many of us, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has created a new school of abstract law where there is no need for objective meaning. The key is to avoid any objective meaning.
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JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
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. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.)
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
This was a story that you yourself talked about in a 2019 speech at New York Law School. When Attorney General Janet Reno and I and others first started this work, there was very little discussion about reentry. I thought it was politically astute. So in a relatively short time, it really took hold in an impressive way.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 2, 2023
Yet now Comey is heralding the effort of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg , who campaigned on a pledge of bagging Trump for some unspecified crime. Despite the widespread criticism of Bragg for reducing charges for an array of felonies by Manhattan criminals, he spent months working to convert a misdemeanor into a felony.
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?
JonathanTurley
APRIL 15, 2024
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. Here is the column: The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.” Dunne and Mark F.
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