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New York Moves to Ease Arrest Disclosure Requirements by Would-Be Lawyers

The Crime Report

New York is moving to end a requirement that law school graduates report past arrests and police interactions short of convictions in order to become practicing attorneys, following a new report finding that excessive screening discourages people of color from applying to law school and the bar, reports Bloomberg News.

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The Collaborative Courtroom: A Proposal

The Crime Report

A groundbreaking study by the Rand Corporation and the University of Pennsylvania Law School makes this point. This isn’t the tail wagging the dog; this tail has swallowed the dog. I’ve spent nearly 50 years defending criminal cases, and I don’t expect an Armistice to be declared any time soon.

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The Return of Anthony Comstock: The Abortion Pill Case Raises a Law With A Dark and Troubling Past

JonathanTurley

The controversial law came up in oral arguments over the access to the abortion pill in the Supreme Court. The relevance of the Comstock Act to the issue of the availability of mifepristone is highly contested and unlikely to draw a majority on the Court. The repeal of the Comstock Act is long overdue. and Maurice C.

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America’s Justice System Needs a ‘Course Correction’: Jeremy Travis

The Crime Report

He was a deputy commissioner at the New York Police Department (NYPD) in the early 1990s, when violent crime rates began to plummet. More recently, as president of John Jay College at the City University of New York from 2004 to 2016, he helped to spread the focused-deterrence model across the country. Later, at the U.S.

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The Closing: Trump’s Final Argument Must Be Clarity to Chaos in Merchan’s Courtroom

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the closing arguments scheduled for today in the trial of former President Donald Trump. Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations.

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A Manhattan Canned Hunt: The Trump Jury is Out But is the Case in the Bag?

JonathanTurley

In New York, the defense must go first, giving the government free rein over its closing with no risk of contradiction from the defense. Merchan did nothing as Steinglass told the jury that Hope Hicks cried in court because she knew that she had destroyed Trump’s defense (Hicks has never explained why she cried). and Maurice C.

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Bragg and the Jackson Pollock School of Prosecution: Why the Trump Trial Could End With a Hung Jury

JonathanTurley

Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. In the instructions, the court will tell the jurors that payments cannot be campaign contributions if they would have been made anyway regardless of the campaign. They also need to point out other gaps.

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