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Can the ‘War’ on Gun Violence Learn From the Mistakes of the War on Drugs?

The Crime Report

As states slowly started to legalize and decriminalize certain drugs, authorities have moved to less punitive approaches to address the social costs of addiction. The relationship between anti-gun and anti-drug initiatives becomes clear when looking at felony convictions. How Should We Regulate ‘Dangerous Products’?

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As Life Without Parole Cases Rise, Finding Public Defenders Grows Harder  

The Crime Report

Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial. Other states have minimal standards.

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

TCR: The first part of your book focuses on the roots of the current legal system in English Common. From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. Plea bargaining coincided with overt classism in the legal system.

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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption

JonathanTurley

” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.”

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Alvin Bragg and The Art of Not Taking Law Too Seriously

JonathanTurley

I have long been a critic of the Bragg indictment as legally incomprehensible. It was not until the second week of proceedings that Bragg even revealed part of his theory of criminality. After all, the base charge is a simple misdemeanor under a New York law against falsifying business records. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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

JonathanTurley

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. It was not Trump who listed payments as legal expenses or retainer payments.

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

JonathanTurley

There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. Even liberal legal analysts admitted that they could not figure out what was being alleged in Bragg’s indictment. There is a plausible reason why payments to an attorney were listed as legal expenses.