JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee called for the criminalization of “lies” about election results. Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections.

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LexBlog

AUGUST 9, 2019

The statistics provided by the United States Bureau of Labor show the paralegal and legal assistant jobs are going to be in high demand simply because the legal field is highly dependent on paralegal and legal assistant support. Currently, there are over thirty thousand legal professionals employed statewide. Washington.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

As a result, most of eastern Oklahoma is now understood to be Indian country — a development that, according to the state, has disrupted the criminal justice system there. Castro-Huerta ’s legal issues are narrower than those in McGirt. federal enclaves).

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

However, it was consistent with a bizarre criminal defense that never seemed connected to a legal strategy. It is the continuation of a legal strategy that could be best described as controlled chaos. The effort to plead guilty without admitting guilt left him looking like the most privilege person since Marie Antoinette.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2021

The lack of case law was at the heart of the “fact check” of the PolitiFact. Such fact checks are often challenged as biased, including the well-known fact checking at the Washington Post ( here and here ). Such objections should be distinguished from complaints over distorting backgrounds , history history , or the law.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Washington (1945) and the requirement of “minimum contacts.” criminal law as “an extreme abuse,” China applies its criminal law extraterritorially on all the bases that the United States employs. law in significant ways. The report seems to recognize this, referring in its second paragraph to the U.S.

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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

APRIL 5, 2022

Senior Legal Advisor, U.S. 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. Nick Robinson. Dr. Jacob R. Specialist on the Congress, Congressional Research Service.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2021

It stressed that this element requires a showing of “a bad purpose to disregard the law” and that “evidence that an officer acted out of fear, mistake, panic, misperception, negligence, or even poor judgment cannot establish the high level of intent.”. Will the Babbitt standard now apply. Reasonable people could disagree on the shooting.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Hearst Corporation. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, The George Washington University Law School. Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust, Microsoft Corporation. Eve Burton. Lynn Oberlander. Of Counsel, Ballard Spahr LLP. Mr. Jonathan Turley.

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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. ” The King of England was long held to “do no wrong” legally as a matter of immunity.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

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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

APRIL 22, 2023

criticized me for offering “legal opinions” without actually working at Twitter. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School. In these hearings, I got off light. When I testified on the Twitter Files before the hearing with Taibbi, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Reports the parents are concerned they could be financially ruined by legal costs may only increase the interest in using them to pressure their son. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. In an ordinary case, they would be on top of the targets list.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Black victims of crime in America are under-represented in the media, and as a result rarely get the institutional and legal recognition given their white counterparts, according to a forthcoming study in the Lewis & Clark Law Review. . Itay Ravid is an Assistant Professor at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman writes that Congress and state legislatures should enact criminal laws mandating a “duty to intervene” in their colleagues’ misuse of force.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 16, 2022

The Washington Post yesterday ran a column by MSNBC Legal Analyst and Georgetown Law Professor Paul Butler that argued that the incarceration of actor Jussie Smollett for 150 days is a miscarriage of justice fueled by racism. Special investigator Dan Webb shredded that claim, which has found a new life in the Washington Post.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2021

The paper’s author, Jacob Schuman , an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University School of Law, argues that the system of supervised release has become a “drug-control network focused on public safety” rather than rehabilitation. To put this into perspective, Schuman cites a study in Washington D.C. percent of the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 1, 2024

If true, this would seem a major story in using criminal laws to police parodies. However, if the reports of a criminal prosecution are accurate, the impact could be considerable on the diminishing residue of free speech in Germany. We discussed how Germany is extending its criminalization of speech to the Internet.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2021

The sharp contrast in the two decisions raises serious questions over the legal and political issues that rage around such cases. 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.

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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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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

We have been discussing the controversy over a ten-year-old girl who was raped in Ohio and removed to Indiana because the Ohio abortion law would not allegedly allow for the termination of her pregnancy. Both stated that the case could be real, but that there were glaring legal and factual questions raised by Dr. Bernard’s account.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As discussed below, there could be legal as well as political ramifications as the House moves forward with the long-delayed investigation of these social media companies. It is still early to determine possible legal implications of these files, but there are some areas likely to be of immediate concern for counsel.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 22, 2024

This is also now the subject of a new bar complaint filed by a conservative legal group this week. But the legal ethics rules are designed to avoid gunslinging generally and ambiguity specifically. Soon thereafter, Morris was giving Hunter copious amounts of money and legal advice. This is how he rolls.” Call it “Mr.

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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

APRIL 14, 2021

Finding those answers takes faith and fealty to the legal system that is based on fairness and due process. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Much remains unknown about this seemingly senseless killing. You can find his updates online @JonathanTurley.

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LegalTalkNetwork

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Per the usual, there was a lot more going on than we could possibly cover but we did manage to feature highlights from the best volunteers and minds in the legal profession. ABAMidYear @ABAesq @BarPresidents @LaurenceEsq pic.twitter.com/aKfxmEQMV1 — Legal Talk Network (@LegalTalkNet) January 25, 2019. hails from Butte, Montana.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns. Judge Polster pushed drug makers to settle before clearly establishing legal liability. Yet it leaves the matter far from resolved.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2024

For Hunter Biden, though, this was the first time he’s ever been held accountable for any criminal conduct, be it drug use, or prostitution, or tax evasion, or violations of various federal laws. Last year, I described the growing legal problems of Hunter Biden as the cost of “legal gluttony.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Below is my column in new research published in the Washington Post that turned up an interesting case involving the prosecution of the great-great-grandfather of President Joe Biden. What was interesting about the account was not the criminality, which can be found in the history of many families. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2022

Jurors must draw a line between the tragically negligent and the criminally willful for periods as short as 90 seconds (the King video) and more than nine minutes (Floyd). The legal standards have remained the same, and the ultimate culpability rests with the jury. Follow him on Twitter: @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They did not have the luxury of reframing the legal standard to achieve their own concept of justice. acquitted Rittenhouse on all charges, politicians and media figures lashed out at the judge, the jury and the entire legal system. When Rittenhouse was allowed to go free, the entire legal system was denounced as racist.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 3, 2022

Below is my column in Fox News on the status of the Hunter Biden investigation and how it presents a challenge for many in Washington. The question is how to drop Hunter (and even his father) without causing damage to the media, the Democrats, or others in Washington. Biden now could endanger Democratic control of Congress.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2021

But Biden’s suggestion — that “instead of anybody coming at you and the first thing you do is shoot to kill, you shoot them in the leg” — is not exactly how it works, practically or legally. The key is the legal threshold for the use of lethal force. Having Biden shout from the sideline to “Shoot for the leg! Shoot for the leg!”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

Even Yost ( who is pro-life ) said that this abortion clearly fit within the exceptions and could be legally performed in Ohio. Yost, however, was equally curious about the absence of a criminal case. ” Even liberal newspapers like Washington Post could not get any new information from Dr. Bernard.

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