JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

Garner addressed a fleeing unarmed suspects and found the state statute too broad: The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. .” T ennessee v. In Graham v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PETA and other groups have called the activists “heroes” f or their actions but prosecutors are seeking convictions for felony burglary and theft charges. The common law allowed for citizen arrests as members of the public responded to the “hue and cry” of others.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 3, 2021

That 2018 legislation, which scales back the felony-murder rule and the “natural and probable consequences” doctrine, has been attacked by various district attorney’s around the state as an invalid amendment of several voter initiatives and as a violation of the separation of powers. Marquez (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2023

If he recalls these events and messages, he will not only contradict prior denials but face potential criminal charges for any factual misrepresentations. The Justice Department has allowed felonies to lapse against Hunter, but these would be new potential charges with new dates under the statute of limitation.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

b) Involuntary—in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony; or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection. This incident could well prove a violation of a statute or regulation making the act “negligent per se.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

The Lacey Act and other federal wildlife statutes could be charged for such conduct. The Lacey Act makes it a federal crime to break the wildlife laws of any state, tribe, or foreign country, in interstate commerce. If convicted of a felony, the maximum penalty is $20,000 and/or up to five years imprisonment.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

In her complaint, Gonzalez noted that she was the only person charged in the past 10 years under the state’s government records law for temporarily misplacing a document. The vast majority of the 215 felony indictments under the law, she explained, involved either the use or the creation of fake government identifications.

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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

JUNE 12, 2024

It was Weiss who allowed the most serious tax offenses to lapse under a statute of limitations (despite reportedly having an agreement to extend the period). Given the calculation for the three felonies, the defense had to know that they were increasing the chances of prison time by pursuing a nullification defense.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2024

The Court found the federal statutes imposing a reasonable temporary limitation on this right. Special Counsel David Weiss seemed to work hard to avoid any felony charges against the president’s son. Since the Court first recognized the Second Amendment as an individual right in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2024

The filings also did not address the fact that the Justice Department not only allowed the statute of limitations to run on major crimes, but sought to finalize an obscene plea agreement with no jail time for Hunter. It was allowing the statute of limitations to run despite having an agreement on the table to keep potential felonies alive.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The six misdemeanor charges and three felonies carry a potential sentence of 17 years for alleged tax evasion and filing a false return. The Justice Department inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to run on the most serious allegations involving payments from years going back to 2016. It could have been worse.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2024

Many of us have also criticized Weiss for allowing the most serious tax charges to expire despite being able to extend the statute of limitations. He has yet to offer a compelling reason why prosecutors would ever allow viable felony charges to expire when they could have extended that period.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As such, the state law on the seizure of the weapons stands. Thus, McCloskey’s guilty plea, for which he obtained the benefit of the State dismissing a felony charge punishable by jail time, survived the pardon and importantly, with respect to the issue at hand in this replevin action, triggered the guns’ forfeiture.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While the Justice Department slow walked his investigation and allowed the statute of limitations to run, any misrepresentation could be charged as a new felony with a new statute of limitations. Those spins could now come at a cost. Hunter will appear in the place set by the Committee.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit agreed with Cargill that the federal law defining “machinegun” does not apply to bump stocks because semiautomatic rifles equipped with bump stocks do not shoot multiple bullets “automatically” or “by a single function of the trigger,” as the law requires.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

” Those constitute per se categories of common law defamation, which include allegations of criminal conduct. The alleged misconduct would constitute federal felonies. Moreover, publications are protected in most states by retraction statutes limiting or blocking damages for corrected stories.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Citizen arrests have been recognized since Medieval times when citizens had not just a right but a duty to to respond to a “hue and cry” of others identifying a criminal and seeking help. ” The right still exists for any felonies (or certain misdemeanors committed in the presence of the citizen).

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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).

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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. That, apparently, is left to the suspension of disbelief.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

The only way to convert it into a Class E felony requires a showing that the “intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.” Even if he shows this is a viable felony charge, the longer five-year limitation could be hard to establish.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Indeed, after years of denial, some Democratic members and the journalists are now admitting that Hunter Biden clearly broke the law. The Weiss investigation, however, languished for years even as some of us were pointing out that the statute of limitations was about to pass on felonies.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

Trumps appeal is important for the rule of law, New Yorks reputation as a global business, financial and legal center, as well as for the presidency and all public officials, Giuffra said in a statement. But despite my misgivings, that is how the law reads.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

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

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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. She never specified any particular crime, just promising to bag Trump.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The three cited statutes do not require classified status for a crime but two deal with the unlawful possession or handling of defense or sensitive information.) Trump has not fully explained how he allegedly declassified all of this material.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 13, 2023

It is also the same Weiss who reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run out on Hunter’s major tax offenses, even though he had the option to extend it. It is the same Weiss who did not indict on major tax felonies and cut a plea deal that brushed aside a felony gun charge.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

However, it is most clearly not a criminal threat. The statute is below. Here is the statute: 13-1202. Threatening or intimidating pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1 or 2 is a class 1 misdemeanor, except that it is a class 6 felony if: 1. The person is a criminal street gang member.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The other cases Kruger argued touched on a wide range of issues, from the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause and right to counsel to federal “career criminal” laws and federal benefits laws. At the lectern, Kruger’s tone with the justices was conversational from the start, with a quiet confidence. Following the U.S.

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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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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

While the actual charges will not be disclosed until the release of the indictment, the underlying theory discussed for months is an effort to revive a dead misdemeanor offense of falsifying business records — years after the statute of limitations expired. The public pressure worked. Bragg caved. That is a good-faith debate.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

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. But Bragg then used the alleged federal crime to bootstrap a defunct misdemeanor charge into a felony in the current case. However, two prosecutors, Carey R. Dunne and Mark F.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

” ) In other words, the natural and probable consequences doctrine may apply to felony murder, but it is not properly applied to attempted murder. It must be proved, and it cannot be inferred merely from the commission of another dangerous crime.” ” [Citation.]’ ’ [Citations.]” ” .

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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

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). Department of Justice.

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