Constitutional Law Court Rules Felony Statute 
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 28, 2022
The federal government – which prosecuted Jones – says the 8th Circuit got the reasoning wrong but the outcome right: It urges the Supreme Court to correct the lower court’s error but deny Jones relief. 922(g) prohibits people with felony convictions from possessing a firearm. In 2019, the court ruled in Rehaif v.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
However, the most damaging moment came outside of the presence of the jury when the judge drilled down on the law. He told the prosecutors “I have been wrestling with this statute with, I’d hate to count the hours I’ve put into it, I’m still trying to figure out what it says, what’s prohibited. I have a legal education.”
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JonathanTurley
JUNE 24, 2024
Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. New Yorkers and the media insisted that such selective prosecution was in defense of the “rule of law.” Bragg did not bother to state clearly what that crime was, originally alluding to four different crimes.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 17, 2022
” ) In other words, the natural and probable consequences doctrine may apply to felony murder, but it is not properly applied to attempted murder. Indeed, such a claim would contradict controlling Supreme Court precedent. It must be proved, and it cannot be inferred merely from the commission of another dangerous crime.”
JonathanTurley
JUNE 29, 2022
In an unanimous 6-0 ruling, the Michigan Supreme Court held that her office committed a fatal and inexplicable error in prosecuting nine officials for the Flint water crisis, including former Gov. Nessel then restarted the prosecutions anew but ignored statutes that clearly do not allow the use of a single judge to issue indictments.
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