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The Crime Report
APRIL 8, 2022
However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death.
JonathanTurley
MAY 13, 2021
His lawyer, Michael Elliott, insists that he was on his way to surrender to police when he was picked up. ” It appears that D may stand for Deandre and the lawyer believes that D is involved in the illegal exotic animal trade. If convicted of a felony, the maximum penalty is $20,000 and/or up to five years imprisonment.
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The Crime Report
JULY 22, 2021
In some examples cited in the paper, a Virginia defendant in Virginia charged with transporting marijuana pleaded guilty to trafficking a different type of drug altogether; a New York defendant charged with animal cruelty pleaded guilty to trespassing even though no trespassing was involved. The full paper can be accessed here.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 29, 2024
After the first week of testimony, the trial of Donald Trump is increasingly looking like a mad prosecution machine by lawyers who don’t take law too seriously. After all, the base charge is a simple misdemeanor under a New York law against falsifying business records. It was so implausible as to be impossible.
JonathanTurley
MAY 28, 2024
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. If any leg is missing, the stool collapses.
JonathanTurley
MAY 27, 2024
Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. Witnesses said that payments to lawyers are routinely recorded as legal expenses. He is currently in prison in New York , but was not called by the prosecution. They also need to point out other gaps.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Below is my column in the New York Post on reports that Special Counsel Robert Hur has finally interviewed President Joe Biden on allegations that he removed and retained classified material going back to his time as a United States senator. The problem facing Hur could be what to do if he actually finds evidence of a crime.
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