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The Crime Report
OCTOBER 5, 2021
That’s a lesson worth applying to current strategies addressing the epidemic of gun violence, writes Benjamin Levin , an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. The relationship between anti-gun and anti-drug initiatives becomes clear when looking at felony convictions.
The Crime Report
APRIL 8, 2022
From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. However, after the industrial revolution [and the rise of] the English working classes, there just weren’t enough police to keep whacking people over the head with the criminal law.
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JonathanTurley
MAY 28, 2024
Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. The only crime that was clearly established in his trial was the grand larceny that Cohen admitted to under oath (after the statute of limitations had run out).
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.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. While there is a fair debate over the policy of relocation by states like Texas and Florida, the effort to use the criminal process as part of that political debate is … well, pathetic.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 18, 2024
In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. Shapiro professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.
JonathanTurley
MAY 21, 2024
Even more notably, he admitted to the larceny on the stand — after the statute of limitations had passed. There will be no dead felony zapped back into life against Cohen, as it was for Trump. While most members wait to take office to commit felonies, Rep. Cohen would show up with a self-affirming criminal record.
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