JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Now, the Michigan Attorney General and others are suggesting that Republicans who oppose certification or even meet with President Donald Trump on the issue could be criminally investigated or charged. Similar campaigns have targeted election officials who object to counting irregularities.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Michigan House Democrats. Michigan state Rep. Jewell Jones is facing an array of criminal charges , including two new serious felonies after he was found in possession of a handcuff key after he was arrested. There is little basis for much sympathy for Jones who has shown little regard for the criminal code in his past conduct.

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MAY 20, 2021

South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial. Other states have minimal standards.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Bollinger , holding that the University of Michigan could consider race in its undergraduate admissions process as part of its efforts to obtain a diverse student body. Bollinger , holding that the University of Michigan could consider race in its undergraduate admissions process as part of its efforts to obtain a diverse student body.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Sheriff’s Office is seeking criminal charges against a Howell woman who posted nasty attacks on Twitter to criticize recent public meeting comments by anti-maskers. However, as will come as no surprise to regulars on this blog, I do not see the basis for such a criminal referral, which creates a chilling effect on free speech.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 15, 2022

With the pandemic, most people are shopping online and there are growing accounts of “ doom shopping ” dangers for many who are becoming heavily indebted through retail therapy. Wendy Lynn Wein’s retail therapy, however, involved shopping for someone to kill her ex-husband.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Students leave Michigan high school following shooting. Now, advocates are pursuing other ways to bring down numbers, and facing a new challenge, reports the Hartford Courant and Reuters : strengthen anti-gun intervention initiatives or introduce stricter gun laws? . Photo via CNN.

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JUNE 24, 2022

In one conversation, Trump suggested that Antrim County Michigan’s voting machines counted 68% of ballots incorrectly. Richard Donoghue, former Acting Deputy Attorney General, testified that he had multiple conversations with Trump about election fraud during which Donoghue debunked claims of fraud.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 20, 2022

We recently discussed the collapse of the Whitmer kidnapping case after a jury acquitted defendants in Michigan. A Michigan jury recently acquitted Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta and hanged on the verdicts against Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. Attorney Jonathan Roth. Shortly before the 2020 election, Gov.

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In 2006, Professor Mitchell received the Justice For All award from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan for her Innocence Project work. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the Ohio Supreme Court, and trial and appellate courts in Ohio and Michigan.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

In 1916, at a single Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan, workers also reported almost 200 severed fingers and 75,000 other injuries. Around the same time, coincidentally, the American criminal justice system began leaning into a till-then rarely invoked practice called “plea bargaining.”. They welcome comments from readers.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2021

However, Trask was also key to the arrest of men in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. As a criminal defense attorney, I have long been a critic of the degree to which the FBI often pushes defendants to take actions to trigger criminal charges. Trask’s affidavit was used to arrest the men in the Michigan case.

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MARCH 11, 2022

As he addressed mostly corporate lawyers on the subject of corporate criminal law enforcement, he began by telling his audience what they already knew. Last Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered remarks to the American Bar Association Institute on white collar crime. Gregg Barak, Ph.D.,

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 12, 2022

It appears, however, that Eve’s defense had greater success in Michigan this week after a jury failed to convict a single member of the alleged conspiracy to kidnap and execute Gov. That collapse is now complete after a Michigan jury acquitted two of the four men tried for the conspiracy and then hung on the other two.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 13, 2021

Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib wasted no time in declaring that the shooting of Daunte Wright was a racist shooting and no accident. The long advocate for defunding police has declared that she is done with “government funded murder.”

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APRIL 27, 2022

It also now appears that unless the Manhattan prosecutors indict Trump by the end of the month when the current grand jury term expires , the Donald’s record of zero criminal indictments will remain intact. 6 insurrection floated several possible criminal offenses that the former president might have committed. Gregg Barak, Ph.D. ,

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law where she teaches criminal law and procedure, as well as trial advocacy and critical race theory. Before joining the University, she was a tenured Associate Professor at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Under Michigan law, Ethan Crumbley was not allowed to own a gun until he was 18. The prosecutors must also show that the defendant caused the death of the victim without justification or lawful excuse. However, the charge seems a workaround the fact that Michigan opted not to enact a child access prevention law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2023

He earned his undergraduate degree at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his PhD at the University of Michigan. Atherton Award for excellence in Teaching, the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Penn State Engineering Society, and the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award from the student chapter of the AIChE.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 28, 2023

A professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, has been suspended after posting threatening statements on social media posts that suggested that people would be justified in killing speakers who hold opposing views on issues like transgender policies. Wayne State University President M.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Experts like Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe have previously declared Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” That included what Tribe suggested was a clear case of attempted murder of former Vice President Pence.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 5, 2023

This week, University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers declared that some of those boycotting the store Target over its line of Pride Month clothing were engaging in “literal terrorism.” (He He insists that he was referring to those confronting Target employees.)

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2022

D’Antuono, led the disastrous investigation of the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Concerns also have been raised about the decision to appoint the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit office to lead the Washington, D.C., The agent, Steven M. Gretchen Whitmer.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Now, MSNBC legal analyst and Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade has gone one better. We previously discussed the declaration of Harvard Professor Lawrence Tribe that former president Donald Trump could be charged with the attempted murder of former Vice President Michael Pence.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Aimee Stephens had worked as a funeral director at a Michigan funeral home for six years when, in 2013, she announced to her colleagues that she was transgender and would begin living as a woman. He also taught criminal law and trial practice at the George Washington University School of Law. Aimee Stephens.

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