JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. To achieve that extraordinary goal, he has alleged that the document violations (which expired long ago under the statute of limitations) were committed to hide some other crime. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. Some things are happily left out of the courts. Macy’s Parade also did not disappoint with its balloon-related mishaps.

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MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. The court dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 107.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Turns out the payments of hush money to at least two women—misdemeanor offenses—were not really what these indictments were all about. Ergo, there were no misdemeanor charges, only first-degree felonies. With additional criminal indictments coming to courts in Georgia, Washington, D.C.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The Court declined to review the companies’ other grounds for removal, finding that the “wiser course” was to allow the Fourth Circuit to address them in the first instance.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. This week in the Supreme Court, a glimpse of the legal landscape outside of Manhattan came more sharply into view. New Yorkers and the media insisted that such selective prosecution was in defense of the “rule of law.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2024

Now it will be up to 12 New Yorkers to do what neither the court nor the prosecutors were willing to do: adhere to the rule of law regardless of the identity of the defendant. Merchan has allowed the government to bring back into life a dead misdemeanor and convert it into 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge despite massive unpaid taxes, gun violations, and work as an unregistered foreign agent, among other alleged crimes. Then the wheels fell off in court and left everyone in a bit of a muddle. There was no way now to kill the case.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2023

A speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment − and a federal statute − would set the case for trial within 70 days. After a period of briefing before the trial court, appellate courts could delay the matter for months depending on whether they expedite review. Identifying such bias will be a challenge for the court and counsel.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2023

The courts would have to address a controversial case in which a city prosecutor attempts to prove a federal crime long ago declined by the U.S. Jonathan Turley, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors, is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Department of Justice.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the defendant was anyone other than Trump. That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

I also raised the problem of an investigation that remained ongoing for years as the statute of limitations expired on major potential crimes. The two witnesses testified that the Justice Department instead allowed the statute of limitations to expire. It turns out that the same concerns were being raised within the Weiss team.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds. Even theories denied by the Supreme Court are seen as valid when used against Trump. You can find his updates online @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 6, 2022

Below is my column in The Hill on the subpoena war raging in Washington as the Jan. Here is the column: In an initial court appearance following his arrest on Friday for contempt of Congress, former Trump adviser Peter Navarro stood before an obviously concerned federal magistrate. Judge Faruqui’s concern was almost charmingly naive.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations. Bragg is combining parts from both state and federal codes.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

Here is the column: After years of trying — in the words of the judge — “to get the damned rascal in this court,” it was a conviction that many welcomed. But those words were not from Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, and the conviction was not that of former President Donald Trump. We are better than this.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2024

So the attention will now shift to the appellate courts. While it may be tough going initially in the New York court system for the former president, this case could well end up in the federal system and the United States Supreme Court. The court largely used standard instructions in a case that was anything but standard.

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