JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2022

There is an interesting case out of Ohio where the state Supreme Court has ruled that Lake County Common Pleas Court Judge Eugene Lucci erred when he gave Manson Bryant, 35, an added six years after Bryant called him “racist as f**k.” Sentenced in March 2019, Bryant was respectful and remorseful before the court.

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JUNE 23, 2021

The paper’s author, Jacob Schuman , an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University School of Law, argues that the system of supervised release has become a “drug-control network focused on public safety” rather than rehabilitation. He studies criminal law, criminal procedure, and sentencing.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, in Columbus, Ohio has sparked protests despite the police releasing a videotape that appeared to show Bryant moving to stab another girl. The incident has strikingly similar legal issues to the shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago. ” That language is derived from Tennessee v. Garner , 471 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

Below is my column on the case of the ten-year-old rape victim who allegedly was taken to Indiana because an abortion was barred in Ohio. (A There remain, however, questions as to why the child had to leave Ohio, which has exceptions that would apply to the case. A shorter, edited version of this column ran in the New York Post ).

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

This is the flip side to lethal-force cases such as last month’s shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant , 16, in Columbus, Ohio, in which Officer Nicholas Reardon used lethal force to stop the stabbing of another girl. In 1855, the Supreme Court ruled in South v. For police officers, the city’s defense may seem as familiar as it is frustrating.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2021

Here is the column: The shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, has produced a torrent of objections to how police respond to armed suspects. Garner in 1985 and other Supreme Court cases. These and the prior cases capture the dangerously uncertain and chaotic context of such cases.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The charges, brought before a municipal court, stem from false claims made by Trump and Vance alleging that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were abducting and eating local pets. Vance, who represents Ohio in the US Senate, spread the false claims on social media, accusing Haitian migrants of abducting and eating pets.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who have already been told to preserve their phone records to be surrendered to the committee. The House has decided to subpoena them all and let God (and the courts) sort them out. The storm of secret subpoenas also seems to run against the thrust of recent Supreme Court decision, Trump v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Some of these questions are being addressed in the courts. According to the Washington Post , Dana Nessel “is conferring with election law experts on whether officials may have violated any state laws prohibiting them from engaging in bribery, perjury and conspiracy.” And yet, it’s back. In Kelly v. Chris Christie.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Some things are happily left out of the courts. One such case now in court was brought by Amanda DuVall, 28. She is asking for $75,000 but Walmart moved the case to federal court and is contesting the case. The court held that the reckless driving was a foreseeable response of teenagers to the promise of free concert tickets.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2024

While this was unfolding, Herridge was in court, fighting to protect her confidential sources. It is now subject to the same test that Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once used to identify pornography in the case Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. The files contained confidential source information. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 20, 2022

Ohio , the Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that even calling for violence is protected under the First Amendment unless there is a threat of “ imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”. That is legitimately concerning and chilling language. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

District Court for the Central District of California this week have electrified commentators across the networks and the Internet. The declarations by the court have led to a frenzy in the media and renewed calls for the prosecution of the former president. “The illegality of the plan was obvious.” Those words of Judge David O.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2022

Putting aside the court’s assumption of what Trump secretly concluded on the election, a sizable number of Americans still do not view Biden as legitimately elected. The court is not simply saying that they are wrong in that view but, because they are wrong, legislative challenges amounted to criminal obstruction of Congress.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. Such a result would eviscerate the claim that Trump was guilty of criminal incitement in his speech. Trump’s Jan. 6 speech would not satisfy the test in Brandenburg v. If we don’t, we cannot go away.”.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2023

Elias was recently severed by the Democratic National Committee from further representation and has been previously sanctioned in the federal courts in other litigation.) Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and said the dossier “hasn’t been discredited, in fact, it has been opposite, it has been corroborated.”

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Mike Vitiello: The core of the victims’ rights movement is rooted in a law and order push that happened during the 1960s when Frank Carrington, a right-wing lawyer, attacked the Supreme Court at the time, the Warren Court, claiming that they were coddling criminals and were responsible for the ongoing rise in crime.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This was not in a filing in court. ” These are both individual who have previously embraced sweeping criminal and ethics claims against Trump and others for the last four years, including ( in Eliason’s case) interpretations long rejected by the Supreme Court. Ohio as advocating imminent violence.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

That may be technically true in the sense of an actual defense to enjoin or bar impeachment in court. Ohio which are ultimately First Amendment cases. Understanding how such language would be viewed by the courts is relevant to weighing whether it should be treated as constitutional violation for the purposes of impeachment.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The House managers cited a letter from law professors declaring the argument “frivolous” even though some of those professors believe Trump’s speech may indeed be protected under cases like Brandenburg versus Ohio. At least not in a trial of Trump. In other words, it doesn’t have to meet the definition of incitement.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

It was due to the paucity of direct evidence of a crime that would hold up in court. LEXIS 1033 *, 2021 WL 633384, the court noted: Attempted murder requires a finding of specific intent to kill such that implied malice is insufficient to support a conviction for that offense. See People v. Gillespie, 2022 Cal. Indeed, in People v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2021

My problem with this criminal case is not the timing of an indictment but the basis for the indictment. For a court, the speech notably does not include a direct call for lawless action by Trump. I believe that they are fundamentally wrong on the controlling law. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It did not matter that the Supreme Court has roundly rejected such sweeping interpretations of bribery, extortion and related political corruption. One possible reason is that it would collapse in court. policy but instead is wrongfully demanding actions by Ukraine that would benefit him personally.” That simply is not true.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It also refers to a crime that would be difficult to prove in a court of law; the president’s speech likely would be found to be protected by the First Amendment, if not at trial then on appeal. The Supreme Court has routinely protected speech absent clear advocacy of violence.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

In my view, the lawsuit contravenes free speech as well as controlling case law from the Supreme Court. That claim runs directly counter to the controlling case law. The Supreme Court still overturned the conviction. The court has consistently rejected these types of arguments as a threat to free speech in our society.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

They knew that a court would throw out such an indictment and, even if they could find a willing judge, any conviction would be thrown out on appeal. The Supreme Court nevertheless overturned his conviction. Bush’s victory over Democratic challenger John Kerry in the state of Ohio. Indeed, it was protected free speech.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

(Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, once celebrated as a stalwart conservative and a crowning achievement of the Trump presidency, now finds herself under fire from the very base that championed her confirmation. Her recent vote in Department of State v. Lets unpack the data.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

That speech appears protected by the First Amendment and existing Supreme Court precedent. Ohio , the Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that even calling for violence is protected under the First Amendment unless there is a threat of “ imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.” At 4:17 p.m.,

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JULY 7, 2021

Beginning in the mid-1980s and carrying into today, immigration law has become increasingly intertwined with criminal law, resulting in a growing number of deportations, writes University of Denver law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, in an Ohio State Legal Studies research paper.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 22, 2021

Bundy of Roselle Park Municipal Court that she must remove the offending signs. ” In 1971, the Supreme Court handed down Cohen v. Indeed, the Supreme Court just handed down a ruling in Mahanoy Area School District v. The Court has been mocked for its ham-handed efforts to define pornography.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

However, Democrats may also be laying the foundation for Trump to claim vindication in defeating such cases in courts. Here is the column: With the acquittal of former President Donald Trump in the Senate, many are calling for criminal charges for everything from incitement to racketeering to bank fraud. In Brandenburg v. In Hess v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2022

However, I know of no case that would impose this affirmative duty on Tribe as a criminal legal matter. Indeed, such a use of the speech would contradict controlling Supreme Court precedent. 1112 , the courts have imposed an element that she does not mention even for involuntary manslaughter: proximate cause. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many criminal laws that do criminalize speech, and so the notion that the president of the United States somehow has a First Amendment right to be protected by the government for his speech doesn’t make any sense. .” I have previously criticized the calls to criminalize Trump’s Jan.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2021

criminal code. Indeed, it would be considered protected speech by the Supreme Court. When I testified in both the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings, I noted that an article of impeachment does not have to be based on a clear crime but that Congress historically has looked to the criminal code to weigh impeachment offenses.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

It was the criminal theory itself that seemed crafted around the standard for obscenity famously described by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the case of Jacobellis v. Ohio , 378 U.S. 184 (1964): “I shall not today attempt further to define [it] … But I know it when I see it.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

Supreme Court, which rebuked Smith for what it termed the “Government’s boundless interpretation.” 6 speech for criminal charges. That speech is entirely protected under the First Amendment and governing case law, including Brandenburg v. However, relying on bad advice or bad law is not a crime.

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