The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

criminal legal system and turns even so-called progressive prosecutors into “win-seekers rather than neutral agents of justice,” warns a Virginia law professor. criminal legal system, needs to be fundamentally reimagined. This academic year, the WLU Law students voted him Faculty Member of the Year.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2024

This week, Judge Mary Dimke of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington issued an interesting ruling. Bolen, she rejected spousal immunity in a criminal case where she believed the couple got hitched for evidentiary rather thanromantic reasons. In United States v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This year the Supreme Court has overruled precedents and ceded “ground to state death penalty laws and procedures,” with the majority citing that they must not encroach on “ the State’s sovereign power to enforce societal norms through criminal law.”

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LexForti

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

I am Vincenzo Senatore , dual Italian/English qualified lawyer with over 14 years of combined experience representing and advising clients on matters involving corporate law, Italian and English law, domestic and international business transactions, business litigation, international criminal law.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2021

The decisions reached in the shootings of Daunte Wright in Minnesota and Ashli Babbitt in Washington highlight concerns over the political and legal elements that can influence such decisions. The timing of the two decisions that involved two chaotic situations raises questions why charges were filed in Minnesota, but not in Washington.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The investigation was led by IRS-CI Washington, D.C. According to Chief Jim Lee of IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), “in a methodical and calculated scheme, the defendants allegedly laundered and disguised their vast fortune.” Field Office’s Cyber Crimes Unit, the FBI’s Chicago Field Office, and HSI-New York.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 20, 2024

Three years ago, we discussed the conviction of a British man for “toxic ideologies,” under the draconian laws criminalizing inciteful or dangerous speech. The United Kingdom is now committed to silencing opposing views through censorship and criminal charges. Good speech can then rebut the bad speech.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

According to court documents , Robertson, 49, and co-defendent Jacob Fracker were both officers with the Rocky Mount, Virginia, Police Department and were off duty when they headed for Washington, D.C. in Robertson’s car on the morning of January 6, 2021.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Ferguson involves a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s law prohibiting “conversion therapy,” the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. A federal district court in North Carolina ultimately invalidated much of the law, and the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

Enacted in 1948, the GCA extended to Indian country the general federal criminal laws that apply in places where the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction (i.e., The question is whether the GCA therefore prohibits concurrent state criminal prosecutions. federal enclaves). Georgia (1832).

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

An Arlington County doctor has been convicted on all but one count of oxycodone distribution in a 21-count indictment naming her as part of decade-long drug distribution conspiracy, Salvador Rizzo reports for the Washington Post. Ball testified at her trial in U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2021

One of those charged was Javon Washington, 30, faces an array of charges due to his role in playing music and encouraging defiance to the police. There were clearly legitimate arrests on that night as individuals destroyed property and assaulted police. However, Washington’s charges seemed based on his playing music at the scene.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ayer Chair in Business Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. secondary sanctions, the discovery of evidence abroad, the Helms-Burton Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, and the use of extraterritorial jurisdiction in criminal cases.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Yet, the experience derived from running a criminal drug operation doesn’t translate well to the demands of a lawful business. Mr. Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Former street-level dealers have probably never struggled with regulatory compliance or tax accounting.

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LexBlog

AUGUST 9, 2019

Washington. Experience Washington, The Evergreen State” Washington is the state to keep an eye on if you’re looking to secure a healthy salary. This appears to just be the beginning for Washington as large companies like Starbucks, Amazon, Boeing are constantly in need of legal professionals. Massachusetts.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2024

The recent anti-immigration riots have given officials a renewed opportunity to use anti-free speech laws to target those with opposing views.For years, I have been writing about the decline of free speech in the United Kingdom and the steady stream of arrests.A The law is a free speech nightmare.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 5, 2022

We largely agree on areas of possible reforms, including the potential dangers of registration laws like FARA for free speech and association. Program, International Center for Not-For-Profit Law. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law; Director, Environmental Law Advocacy Center, The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2024

They are conduct that violate either university rules or criminal law or both. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “ The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.” None of these acts are protected as free speech.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2021

Even law professors are largely silent on the implications of a finding that the shooting of an unarmed protester is justified. Violent riots are unfortunately common today in cities ranging from Minneapolis to Portland to Washington.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Jonathan Turleyis the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. As is often the case, the hoax was later revealed and there was a collective shrug from most in the media as we await the next cathartic case or controversy. He is the author of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. I am unaware of such a law in Pennsylvania, but these laws are rarely enforced.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 21, 2021

He further pledged that he will not use such laws against parents objecting to critical race theory or other issues at these meetings. Indeed, I raised the same concerns when the Justice Department took over rioting cases in Wisconsin, Washington, and other states. It has an impact on how you act.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, The George Washington University Law School. Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Hearst Corporation. Lynn Oberlander. Of Counsel, Ballard Spahr LLP. Mr. Jonathan Turley. and Maurice C. Here is my testimony: Turley Testimony.Final.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 28, 2021

In 2015, I wrote a Washington Post colum n criticizing the world leaders who marched for free speech and the free press after the massacre of editors with from the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, particularly the vehemently anti-free speech and anti-free press president of Turkey Recep Tavyip Erdogan.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

The arrest appears to have been made under a state hate crime law that has long been criticized by some of us in the free speech community as dangerously vague. ” The law is similar to the type of vague speech codes that we have addressed on campuses but this is an actual criminal provision under state law.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 28, 2025

Toxic ideology also appears to be the target of Irelands proposed Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) law. The law is a free speech nightmare. The law expressly states the intent to combat forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2020

I have tremendous respect for many on the other side of this debate including former Judge Michael Luttig, who just penned a thoughtful column in the Washington Post arguing against such self-pardons. In the early Republic and much of our early history, state law (not federal laws) were the primary sources for prosecution and litigation.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2021

Soon after the shooting, and before any underlying facts were established, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz denounced “another life of a Black man taken by law enforcement” and made a connection to the trial of police officer Derek Chauvin , occurring a few miles away. Due process is not a dirty word or a dog whistle.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 6, 2023

A video has gone viral of the owner of a Washington state dispensary unleashing a profanity-laced verbal attack on state trooper, Yasin Anwar, who pulled over a driver near the Green Seed in Moses Lake, Washington, a marijuana shop. The owner has been identified as Amy Dalluge, who reportedly has a history of problems with the police.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 19, 2021

Rather, it found “ cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by law enforcement officer(s).” The state’s criminal complaint against Chauvin said the autopsy “revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation. Follow him on Twitter: @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The company and the Oklahoma justices are right on the law. Public nuisance was originally addressed in England by criminal laws against such offenses as obstructing “the King’s highways.” In the opioid litigation, the companies were producing a lawful, nondefective product.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 14, 2021

Free agent cornerback Richard Sherman has been arrested and notably denied bail in King County, Washington after a bizarre series of events overnight. Under Washington law, domestic violence can take the form of a variety of charges, including burglary. King County Sheriff (Twitter).

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2022

The law has been used in famous cases , including the Rodney King case in Los Angeles. It is often more difficult to prove criminal nonfeasance (the failure or omission to perform an obligatory duty) as opposed to misfeasance (wrongful performance of a lawful act) or malfeasance (intentional conduct that is wrongful or unlawful).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

Over at the Washington Post this week, the newspaper promoted a columnist ,Karen Attiah, who last summer caused an outrage after she tweeted “White women are lucky that we are just calling them Karens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

.” The language of the statute in my view is unconstitutional due to its sweeping criminalization of any “curse or abuse” that could “provoke a breach of the peace.” ” However, the appellate panel corrected noted that such laws are narrowly construed in light of controlling precedent.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization has rocked the Court and Washington. The Washington Post did run some leaks the court’s internal deliberations. The leaking of a draft opinion in Dobbs v. The 98-page draft opinion is dated Feb. 10, 2022 and authored by Associate Justice Samuel Alito. Roe itself was the subject of leaks.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 1, 2024

If true, this would seem a major story in using criminal laws to police parodies. The impact of these laws was evident in a recent poll of German citizens. There is little coverage of the story beyond a few conservative websites. I waited for days in the hopes of learning more about this controversy.

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