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.” Notably, both Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va) and Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D.,

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

after her allegation that a witness lied under oath in opposing gun laws three years ago in a hearing. The Deputy Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Porter is also on the faculty of University of California (Irvine) Law School, though listed as “on leave.” Katie Porter (D., ” Porter was noting that Rep.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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

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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. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney. It could be a crime.

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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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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 29, 2025

Under Section 924(c)(3)(A), a crime of violence is defined as a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another. The post <strong>Causing Physical Harm Always Involves Use of Force</strong> appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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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. Since the Supreme Court refused to enjoin the Texas law in December 2021 in Whole Women’s Health v.

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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. ” 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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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 30, 2024

Facts of the Case After petitioner Damian McElrath killed his mother, the State of Georgia charged him with three crimes related to her death: malice murder, felony murder, and aggravated assault. The court vacated both the malice-murder and felony-murder verdicts pursuant to Georgia’s so-called repugnancy doctrine, and authorized retrial.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The government presented no such evidence at Jones’s trial – under the law at the time, it didn’t have to in order to sustain a conviction – and although he had 11 prior felony convictions, Jones testified that he believed his record had been expunged. Thus, Jones argues, he is serving a prison term for conduct that is not a crime.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

That appears to be the case of Emory law professor, Darren Hutchinson , who has claimed that the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was “basically a Klansman.” Hutchinson recounted on Twitter how he taught a difficult lesson at Emory Law School on how “Justice Scalia was basically a Klansman.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 2, 2021

Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association and the Law Enforcement Labor Services has taken the unusual (if not unprecedented) step of asking the University of Minnesota to investigate a student for her call to make the lives of campus police a living “hell.” 2b.Other felony offenses.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2023

We recently discussed a federal judge enjoining the new Illinois law banning “assault weapons.” ” Now a gun shop in Naperville, Illinois has made it to the Supreme Court in seeking injunctive relief and Justice Amy Coney Barrett has given the proponents of the law until Monday to respond to the request. Bruen (2022).

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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. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit this week upheld an Ohio law that bans doctors from performing abortions when they know the reason a woman is seeking an abortion is that her baby has Down syndrome. The new law, H.B. It is a major win for pro-life advocates but could face an appeal to the Supreme Court.

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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

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 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. The emphasis remains on the word “ material ,” not political support under these laws, and has not yet been shown in Florida.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2022

The South Carolina legislature is moving to enact a new law with deeply troubling free speech implications. In my view, the law violates the First Amendment and should be scuttled by the legislature. The language below is reminiscent of laws making it illegal to share information on committing suicide.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

million were sent to a law firm and another firm associated with Hunter Biden. 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. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.’”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Under the Government’s reading, Congress could remove “unordinary” or “irresponsible” or “non-law abiding” people—however expediently defined—from the scope of the Second Amendment. It further noted: Perhaps most importantly, the Government’s proffered interpretation lacks any true limiting principle. Political nonconformists?

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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. But the problem is the law, not the car.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

District Judge Patrick Wyrick in Oklahoma City dismissed an indictment against Jared Michael Harrison for violating a federal law that makes it illegal for “unlawful users or addicts of controlled substances” to possess firearms. ” It is similar to the broad rationale used unsuccessfully before the Fifth Circuit.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

Two IRS whistleblowers recently confirmed that the expiration of potential tax felony crimes was raised with Weiss and the Department of Justice (DOJ). 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

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The Supreme Court recognized that this is not an “unlimited” right under the Constitution while affirming the right of “law-abiding, responsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and home.” The law at issue is 18 U.S.C. § Unvirtuousness” based on the felony label is a mushy standard that sets no limit.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

In the law, the “designated defendant” is often a chump who is given some impressive title, a good salary, and the authority to sign reports or filings for a corporation. He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. Hunter Biden finally is important.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With their status as sanctuary cities, housing, law enforcement and social programming costs will continue to rise. 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. Many of those budgets are heavily infused with federal funding.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Once again, the media is silent on this clearly abusive use of the criminal code target members of the opposing party in their raising objections under state law. While it was gleefully presented by papers like the Washington Post, it ignored case law that rejected precisely this type of limitless definition of the offense.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

One of the longest standing debates in constitutional law is dismissed as ill-informed by some of the same experts. After host Lawrence O’Donnell said he believed a president could give himself a pardon, Tribe proclaimed such a view is “incoherent and incompatible” as a constitutional matter. That is the point of a pardon.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2023

There already are questions over special treatment potentially being given to Hunter in the form of alleged felonies being allowed to expire, warnings about planned federal raids, and sweetheart deals. If the same law is applied the same way as it was to Bannon, Hunter could find himself indicted within a few weeks.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

In my 1999, Duke Law Journal article on impeachment, I wrote that “[t]he Senate majority, however, was correct in its view that impeachments historically extended to former officials, such as Warren Hastings.” That is why I have repeatedly said that people on both sides are struggling to deal with this novel impeachment.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Stefanie Lindquist Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University, answers critical questions including: does an indictment – or even a felony conviction – prevent a presidential candidate from running or serving in office?

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2024

That alone will be an historic moment for Congress to declare that the son of a sitting president may have committed a federal felony. 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 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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