Constitutional Law Court Rules Criminal Law Washington 
JonathanTurley
MARCH 6, 2023
A video has gone viral of the owner of a Washington state dispensary unleashing a profanity-laced verbal attack on state trooper, Yasin Anwar, who pulled over a driver near the Green Seed in Moses Lake, Washington, a marijuana shop. The Supreme Court has routinely ruled that the First Amendment protects profanity.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule. That was the holding in the famous ruling in Yania v.
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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
MARCH 13, 2021
Courts have upheld the right of citizens to insult police, which is an unfortunate aspect of policing. Thus, in 2015, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that police could not arrest a 17-year-old who called them “pigs.”
JonathanTurley
JUNE 24, 2024
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. The court ruled that a jury had to decide this issue unanimously under a standard of beyond reasonable doubt. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 8, 2022
The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee called for the criminalization of “lies” about election results. Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections. In Brandenburg v.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The court has virtually invited Congress to pass laws giving people greater standing to sue the government. Yet this crisis is the result of decades of court rulings expanding executive powers while limiting the ability to challenge those policies.
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