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The Crime Report
MARCH 18, 2022
Vigilante Justice Firearm Laws. The law professors detail that the small arms race arises from three main “troubling” legal implications, and it’s looking at the examples of Wisconsin and Georgia’s laws that “exemplify this perilous confluence.”.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 19, 2024
Below is my column in The Messenger on the unfolding Fani Willis scandal in Georgia. The Georgia courts have established that a district attorney should be disqualified when there is a personal interest in the defendant’s conviction ( Whitworth v. The Georgia case has a number of credible criminal charges against various defendants.
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JonathanTurley
AUGUST 30, 2023
Not only are defendants scattering, but some are seeking to go to federal court where the trial would not likely be televised, as the Georgia prosecutors reportedly want. Trump potentially faces four major prosecutions in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia and New York before the 2024 election. In Washington, U.S.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 15, 2023
Below is my column in The Messenger on the Georgia indictment. Here is the column from yesterday before the release of the indictment: “ Oh Georgia, no peace I find (no peace I find).” If indictments were treated like frequent flyer miles, Donald Trump would get the Georgia indictment for free.
JonathanTurley
JULY 5, 2021
From the prosecution of Bill Cosby to a federal lawsuit against Georgia, courts are dealing with cases where government lawyers repeat the same implausible claims with the same unconvincing results. The Georgia lawsuit. Likewise, Biden falsely claimed Georgia’s law prevents voters in line at polling places from getting water.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 24, 2022
A Georgia grand jury is looking into the separate possibility of state election fraud violations.). For a strong federal case, the charge would have to be based on proof that Trump believed these legal and factual claims were meritless. Not probably meritless but entirely, knowingly meritless. (A
JonathanTurley
JUNE 11, 2023
In a rally in Georgia, Trump declared : “They’ve launched one witch hunt after another to try and stop our movement, to thwart the will of the American people. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.
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