JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

A story in Houston has everything you would want in a legal controversy: a murder, a mysterious figure known only as “D”, a missing Bengal tiger named India and even Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame. The Lacey Act makes it a federal crime to break the wildlife laws of any state, tribe, or foreign country, in interstate commerce.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Loki factor was evident in the press conference this week when Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked about the rising lawlessness seen in major cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: “Does the president still think that crime is up because of the pandemic?”

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APRIL 8, 2022

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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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We recently discussed how figures like New York Times columnist Tom Friedman calling on people to move to Georgia to rig the vote in favor of a Democratic takeover of the Senate. It did not seem to matter to either the newspaper or Friedman that he was encouraging the commission of a felony. Yet, Friedman is not a lawyer.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2024

Notably, Weiss said that it was Hunter Biden’s legal team that inexplicably shut down negotiations by playing hardball in seeking to preserve the original agreement: “The government proposed changes to the agreements that addressed only the issues identified during the hearing. .” Motion at 13.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the sudden guilty plea from Hunter Biden in his federal tax case. What is missing is any cognizable legal strategy in waiting until the first day of the trial to make a “naked plea” when it offered the least possible benefit to him. He plead guilty to all nine counts.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column on Fox.com on the new allegations of perjury by Michael Cohen after his testimony in the New York fraud trial of his former client Donald Trump. I have been a critic of Cohen for years, going back to work as a legal thug for Trump. Did he ask me to inflate the numbers?

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 5, 2023

Below is my column in Fox.com on the indictment of former President Donald Trump and how this case is a test not just for Trump but the New York legal system. Bragg knew that he had no criminal case against Trump. ” He insists that he will prove “attempts to violate state and federal election laws.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2024

This morning, many of us are emerging from the late coverage last night after the conviction of former President Donald Trump on 34 felonies. Until the very end, I was hopeful that there would be a hung jury, a result that could restore some integrity to the New York criminal justice system. It was both, obviously.

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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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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the release of the indictment against former President Donald Trump. Yes, the man who has routinely knocked down felony crimes to misdemeanors — or dismissals — actually suggested that he had no alternative but to charge Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2023

They also would have to deal with a charge brought seven years after the alleged offense, despite a two-year statute of limitations for the underlying misdemeanors (or a five-year period for a felony). Michael Cohen worked for Trump The star witness is one of the most repellent figures in New York.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

I have been critical of the indictment, which is reportedly based on a highly dubious use of a New York misdemeanor charge to revise a long dormant federal election law charge. Trump faces serious legal threats in the ongoing Mar-a-Lago investigation. Although it may be politically popular, the case is legally pathetic.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In his address he railed against what he perceived as the “persecution” of himself and his family, but made scant mention of his legal woes. Moreover, it comes as the former president faces multiple criminal investigations over everything from his handling of classified documents, to allegations of falsifying the value of New York properties.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2025

However, the most lasting judgment will be against the New York court system itself in allowing this travesty of justice to occur. Here is the column: With the sentencing of Donald Trump Friday, the final verdict on the New York criminal trial of the president-elect is in. John Fetterman, D-Pa.,

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

The map showed Manhattan occupying most of the known world with wilderness on the other side of the Hudson River between New York and San Francisco. The cartoon captured the distorted view New Yorkers have of the rest of the country. Roughly 50 years later, the image has flipped for many. In Gonzalez v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2024

At that point, it became a legal canned hunt. 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. So the attention will now shift to the appellate courts.

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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. There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. But what is that second crime?

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

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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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2024

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in the New York Post on the meltdown of Michael Cohen on the stand in the Manhattan trial of former President Donald Trump. Judge Merchan seems in open denial of the legal farce playing out in his courtroom. While most members wait to take office to commit felonies, Rep.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

With a dubious legal theory, the testimony has only magnified the criticism of the prosecution as parading sensational rather than material evidence before the jury and the public. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is losing even CNN hosts and legal analysts. The cross examination was devastating.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2024

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.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial and much awaited explanation of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the underlying alleged criminal conduct. He did this by paying to quash a potentially embarrassing story and then reimbursing his lawyer with other legal expenses.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial today in New York. I have long been critical of the case as a clear example of the weaponization of the criminal justice system. This week, New York judges and lawyers appear eager to prove that the same is true for cases against Donald Trump.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

It is the smell of not just selective prosecution but political bias in our legal system. 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.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

New York Times columnist (and my former classmate at The University of Chicago) David Brooks said this week that the corruption scandal “merits an inquiry. The Justice Department then attempted an absurd sweetheart deal to close off the case without felony charges or jail time.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

Trump also knows that while he cannot afford to lose one felony count, Smith cannot afford to lose one juror. Trump will have a far better jury pool than he would face in New York or, potentially, Atlanta. With the trial’s transfer to Fort Pierce, Fla.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on how the Justice Department took five years to “resolve” the long-standing problem with Hunter Biden. The effort to “resolve Hunter” has been a concerted effort by the political and legal establishment.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

Given Bragg’s failure to even state the key offense allowing him to bring these 34 felonies, Merchan should have scheduled a hearing on the threshold legal questions in two weeks — not schedule all motions to be heard in December. If this horror show is going to happen, it should play anywhere other than Manhattan.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the level of joy being expressed by many over the indictment of former president Donald Trump, including former FBI Director James Comey. Bragg may try to accomplish this Frankensteinian feat by converting this into a felony. The public pressure worked. Bragg caved.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expected indictment against former President Donald Trump. It is an effort to reanimate a long dead legal claim against Trump, but could reanimate his presidential campaign. Locals in New York will be thrilled, but will the rest of the country join the pitch-folk carrying mob?

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The Crime Report

APRIL 27, 2022

The list of civil cases includes the ongoing investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James into whether he falsely inflated the value of his assets in annual financial statements. However, after a lifetime of crime, corruption, and impunity, the criminal law may finally be catching up with the Houdini of white-collar crime.

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