Blackstone Career Institute

DECEMBER 26, 2024

With a curriculum that covers general law terms, protocols, and ethics, the topics include an understanding of the process of criminal procedure, how partnerships and corporations are created, the essential elements of constitutional law, a knowledge base of law definitions, job search techniques, and ethics related to the paralegal industry.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

His victim was white Atlanta Police Officer Frank Schlatt and the jury found that both the felony murder and the killing of a police officer were “aggravating circumstances” that justified the death penalty. Both felony murder and the killing of an officer are commonly used as aggravating circumstances in capital cases.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

However, I am not confident that the claim would bar the subpoena in its entirety.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly. For example, in 1547, the court was faced with a law making it a felony of steal “Horses, Geldings or Mares.” It is called the “rule of lenity” and has been around in the English system for centuries.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He was charged with (and later acquitted of) a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. Another pending case is Novak v. City of Parma, in which Anthony Novak was prosecuted for posting a parody of the website of his local police department.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. Oberlin maintained in court filings that the son and grandson of the owners of Gibson’s Bakery “violently and unreasonably attacked” an unarmed student, but that is not how the police viewed it.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

He was charged (and later acquitted) of a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. Some of us have been following the Novak case as an important free speech case after Anthony Novak was prosecuted for a parody on Facebook to mock the police department in Parma, Ohio.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

922(g) prohibits people with felony convictions from possessing a firearm. More than two decades earlier, Jones was charged with violating the statute and, at his trial, testified that while he knew he had previously been convicted of a felony, he believed his record had been expunged. Here is the background: 18 U.S.C. §

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2022

The Oklahoma House of Representatives voted Tuesday to enact a law that makes it a felony to perform or attempt to perform an abortion, except to save the life of the pregnant woman in a medical emergency. 612 makes performing or attempting to perform an abortion punishable by a fine of $100,000 or up to ten years in prison.

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2022

” Conviction under the Act is a Class C felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $15,000.00.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2023

Rickey Kanter was convicted of one count of felony mail fraud for defrauding Medicare in connection with therapeutic shoe inserts. When Barrett was up for confirmation , I noted that the Second Amendment could prove one of her most interesting legacy areas of jurisprudence. Her dissent in Kanter v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

Rather than prosecuting Hunter Biden for a felony in lying on a federal gun form, it is sending him into a diversion program due to an addiction that he says he was able to break years ago. The Justice Department also appears to have latched on to the 7% solution.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2021

Those violating the law are subject to a charge of a fourth-degree felony with the possibility of up to 18 months in prison. What is odd about the law is that it turns on actual knowledge (“ the person has knowledge that the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion” due to an unborn child with Down Syndrome).

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2022

(A) It is unlawful to knowingly or intentionally aid, abet, or conspire with another person to violate the provisions contained in Section 44-41-830.

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JURIST

AUGUST 6, 2023

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an 1890 state constitutional provision permanently preventing people convicted of certain felonies from voting, Section 241, is unconstitutional. This end-justifies-means analysis has no place in constitutional law.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

In that opinion, the appellate court was dealing with the removal of guns from a person convicted of one count of felony mail fraud for defrauding Medicare in connection with therapeutic shoe inserts. I was struck, however, by the reliance on the dissenting opinion in Kanter.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

District Judge David Counts in Midland, Texas also struck down a firearms law that banned individuals under felony indictment from buying guns. Barr , 919 F.3d 3d 437, 451–53 (7th Cir. 2019) (Barrett, J., dissenting). In September, U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 17, 2022

She was less specific on the details: “It could be a felony , it could be a misdemeanor, but we know that CPS charge could harm your employment, could harm their education, because nowadays many people do a CPS database search before offering employment.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

It reportedly includes claims of felony and misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint, but didn’t name individual suspects. 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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Nevertheless, Rodrigues declared “it is a felony under Florida law to ‘knowingly provide material support … to a designated foreign terrorist organization.’” He quoted the national group’s declaration that “Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2022

It can go up to 10 yeas for felonies like manslaughter, which were the charges brought against two defendants. In order to restart the process for a third time, prosecutors would have to establish the basis for indictments more than eight years after the water crisis. juror) to charge them.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

The bill made it a felony to transfer the grandfathered firearm to ANY person without first going through a federal firearms licensee and having a background check conducted. The moment that law would have gone into effect, countless Americans would have become felons in the literal blink of an eye, countless numbers of times every day.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

” That advocacy is being used to suggest that the group is guilty of a felony under Florida law to knowingly provide material aid or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. 7 attack as the result of Israel’s “apartheid, ethnic cleansing, indiscriminate bombing” and other “provocations.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As felons are rarely protected by the Second Amendment, Congress is also normally entitled to require disarmament as a result of a felony conviction without engaging in an evaluation of each felon’s rehabilitation and likelihood to engage in further criminal activity of any kind. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 555 (1964) (“The right to vote.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I have long disagreed with the Justice Department policy as without foundation in the Constitution. There is no question that the best course in dealing with a felonious president is to first remove the president from office through the impeachment process and then indict the former president in the wake of the Senate conviction.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If it were intended to disrupt the congressional proceedings, it could be treated as a felony. this would more likely constitute a criminal misdemeanor. .” I previously noted that it could go down as the perfect epitaph for our age of rage. However, this is more than a good rave next to the House floor. It could be a crime.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. 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. Hunter Biden finally is important.

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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.” This week in the Supreme Court, a glimpse of the legal landscape outside of Manhattan came more sharply into view.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

In the Clinton impeachment, Democrats accepted (as ultimately did a federal court) that Clinton committed perjury – a clear felony – for lying under oath. My view was that it was clearly impeachable conduct and that it did not matter the subject matter of the perjury.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

a person is guilty of first degree murder when he or she specifically intends to kill another purposely with premeditation and deliberation, or kills while in the process of committing a felony. .” In Washington, D.C., See Section 22-2104.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2024

However, the federal government is not required to spend money on services where costs are rising at least in part because of resistance to federal law. Under constitutional law, the federal government cannot be a bully, but it does not have to be a chump.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is the column: Hunter Biden returned to court today on the felony indictment for his possession of a handgun, including allegations that he lied on an Oct.12, 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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2021

Justice Elena Kagan wrote the opinion for Justices Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch , with a concurrence from Justice Clarence Thomas — three liberal justices and two conservatives agreeing to limit the meaning of a “violent felony” for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

I testified in favor of Clinton’s impeachment because even Democrats (and later a federal judge) agreed that Clinton committed perjury in office, a felony crime. I have faced the same baseless criticism.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2021

Tribe however insisted that Trump could be impeached for the tweet , stating “Using power of WH to falsely accuse [Obama of an] impeachable felony does qualify as an impeachable offense whether via tweet or not.”. So just tweeting an accusation against a political opponent is an impeachable offense since it was done from the White House.

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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. It must be proved, and it cannot be inferred merely from the commission of another dangerous crime.” ” [Citation.]’ ’ [Citations.]”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

Trump also knows that while he cannot afford to lose one felony count, Smith cannot afford to lose one juror. 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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