The Crime Report

MAY 28, 2021

Moreover, immigration screening, although it takes place in jails, is not accompanied by the same procedural protections as criminal law that is meant to stop government overreach. Although he explained he is a legal U.S. citizen to employees at the jail, he had no way of legally contesting the detainer while in custody.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2021

That creates a dangerously fluid and subjective basis for criminal charge, even a misdemeanor. All persons guilty of an affray shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. . — Whoever shall resist, obstruct, or oppose any officer as defined in s. 775.082 or s. Affrays and riots. —. (1)?

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The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

police chief) and his academic colleagues found that a majority of police officers surveyed “perceived control” over their decision to arrest for misdemeanors (69 percent) or confiscate drug paraphernalia like syringes (56 percent). A recent study published by Brandon del Pozo (the former Burlington, Vt.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

According to the Seattle Times , Inslee declared that “it should not be legal in the state of Washington for elected officials or candidates for office to willfully lie about these election results.” ” He would make such comments a gross misdemeanor subject to incarceration. What does that even mean?

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I recently wrote a column stating that the sixth count appeared to be based on a factually and legally inapplicable provision of Wisconsin law. This is the loss of the least serious charge, but prosecutors lost more than just a misdemeanor conviction in the decision.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Six years ago, I wrote a column questioning charges in the Flint Michigan lead tainted water case as having more of a political than legal basis. After the initial press coverage dissipated, prosecutors quietly settled for misdemeanor pleas with key defendants. The entire charge was erased after a year.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. I have a legal education.” ” Under Section 948.60(2)(a)

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One issue to watch is how Judge Bruce Schroeder handles the gun count, which is based on what I believe is a flawed legal interpretation by the prosecution. Here is the column: The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse increasingly seems like a legal version of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. One man – not society – is on trial.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Now, the activist with Direct Action Everywhere has filed a police report and is threatening legal action. The protester was engaged, at a minimum, in a criminal misdemeanor while be pursued by security. The common law allowed for citizen arrests as members of the public responded to the “hue and cry” of others.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 14, 2021

That creates a dangerously fluid and subjective basis for criminal charge, even a misdemeanor. . — Whoever shall resist, obstruct, or oppose any officer as defined in s. 775.082 or s. What constitutes resisting can apparently be as little as tensing an arm or moving as restraints are being applied.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. Newsom previously asked the U.S. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.

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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 punishment is a misdemeanor charge and fines of $500 to $2,000. However, the penalties are notably higher.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

Forcible touching is a class A misdemeanor. It is not that Cuomo (who dismissed due process concerns in the Kavanaugh controversy) truly deserves such protections as a person, but he is legally entitled to them as a defendant. For the purposes of this section, forcible touching includes squeezing, grabbing or pinching.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

New York nonprofit The Legal Aid Society (LAS) Thursday reported that data from the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) shows the successes of New York’s 2019 bail reform law. ” However, for all violent felonies and some nonviolent felonies, like sex offenses, judges can still set monetary bail.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

These groups often have ample legal advisers who are aware of the calls for fraudulent registrations. b) (1) A person convicted of the offense of criminal solicitation to commit election fraud in the first degree shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than three years. (2) 21-2-603.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Prosecutors also have faced policy and legal changes on decriminalization , parole opposition and other law-enforcement limitations. In some cities, like San Francisco, police largely stopped responding to shoplifting calls after state law was changed to make the theft of merchandise worth $950 or less just a misdemeanor.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

At the same time, the institution and its employees sought charges against patients even as watchdogs say it failed to provide legally required services, such as individualized therapy for people with traumatic histories and poor coping mechanisms. We are not a criminal law enforcement entity.

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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. Some states have moved to penalize those who do not call police. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

A deeply disturbing case in Los Angeles could raise some difficult legal questions. There appears to be two options under California law. Under Vehicle Code § 20002, you can be charged with a misdemeanor for leaving any accident that causes property damage without providing your name and other information.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Read was unarmed and has no criminal record. Yet, the question is not what Carruth “should” have done but what he is legally required to do. The common law protects not just self-defense but mistaken self-defense where a person may have erroneously (but reasonably) thought that he was under attack.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. But, around the same time, American legal reformers started looking between states for inspiration, which helped the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It turns out that it is not even a misdemeanor to shoot a porn scene in a Senate hearing room and then post it on the Internet. The decision officially confirms for many that Congress can be legally obscene. The question may be whether this was access under legal authority for a staffer. That brings us back to trespass.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The incident will trigger a new Georgia law on swatting and raise questions over legal responsibility for such lethal consequences from such crimes. ” Georgia’s new swatting law just came into effect on July 1st. It raised the crime for a first offender from a misdemeanor to a felony.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

Even CNN legal analysts are now calling the handling of the investigation at the Justice Department an “ unholy mess.” He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge despite massive unpaid taxes, gun violations, and work as an unregistered foreign agent, among other alleged crimes.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Indeed, the site shows a long-standing anomaly in our criminal law. It would be illegal for Gibson to offer sex for money on the street under our prostitution laws. The Criminal Allegation Daniel P. Watkins, a lawyer for Gibson, supported her claim of a criminal violation, citing the state’s revenge porn law.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2023

However, it is also a case study of the perils of legal gluttony. The six misdemeanor charges and three felonies carry a potential sentence of 17 years for alleged tax evasion and filing a false return. The scandal was capped off legally and the media was running cover for Hunter. The answer was why not.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Mark McCloskey later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors to end the case, but was then granted a pardon. ” { Hill argued that “his statutory restoration of rights is legally equivalent to a governor’s pardon and had the effect of negating the fact of his prior conviction.”}

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2024

That included the case of Daniel Goodwyn , who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. 31, 2023, to one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority. I disagreed with the legal claims made to oppose certification.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

(Photographer: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images) For years, Donald Trump was radioactive in elite legal circles. No white-shoe law firm would touch him. But despite my misgivings, that is how the law reads. Looks like the legal professions brief flirtation with principles ended with a quiet ghosting.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2021

which states a person who commits any primary offense — such as misdemeanor property destruction — with the intent to “intimidate or terrorize another person or with reason to believe that his action would intimidate or terrorize that person” is subject to a class B misdemeanor primary offense becoming a class A misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. He will declare himself guilty so the media and the political establishment can declare the scandal to be a closed matter: Nothing more to see here, other than a plea to a couple misdemeanors.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

I recently wrote a column stating that the sixth count appeared to be based on a factually and legally inapplicable provision of Wisconsin law. But the Facebook post claimed that it was “perfectly legal” for the teenager to carry an assault-style rifle in Kenosha. .”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here is what I precisely wrote on the Blount and Belknap impeachment in The Executive Function Theory, The Hamilton Affair, And Other Constitutional Mythologies , 77 North Carolina Law Review 1791 (1999): 1. The impeachment of Senator William Blount of Tennessee may have been the most interesting both factually and legally.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2024

Now, the Biden administration has arrested Baker on four misdemeanor charges linked to his entry into the Capitol on that day. Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri was tried on simple misdemeanors for failure to disperse and interference with official acts. Virtually all of the charges against them were dropped.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here is the column: It seems the subject of Donald Trump , like necessity, is the mother of invention, at least when it comes to legal analysis. From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2023

While there are ambiguities around the meaning of this policy, many legal observers read this rule as kicking in 90 days before an election. However, criminal defendants routinely waive the right to a speedy trial because it does not allow them to fully prepare for trial. The Trump team would be legally insane not to waive.

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