JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

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. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 26, 2023

Influence peddling may be lawful, but it is also corrupt. Indeed, it is the favorite form of corruption in Washington and a virtual family legacy of the Bidens. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law for George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

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. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2024

” 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. The law was drafted by legislators who were motivated by the continuing swatting threats made against Greene.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The Democratic nominee was exposed recently by the Washington Post in streaming sex acts on a site called Chaturbate for money. 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.

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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. He caused a stir in Washington after doing an interview with CNN in which he rebuked former President Donald Trump for his criticism of judges and their family members. However, Judge Reggie B.

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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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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.

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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. former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, reaffirmed this shift. Before Baker’s arrest, Washington media was already facing criticisms over double standards.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2023

Berger, who stuffed classified documents in his clothes to remove them from a secure facility, was allowed to plead to a misdemeanor , received two years’ probation and was given only a three-year suspension – not a permanent revocation – of his security clearance. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I maintained that perjury is a “high crime and misdemeanor” regardless of its subject. Conversely, I testified in the Trump impeachment that the issue was far more difficult because of the absence of such a clear criminal act as perjury. Tribe notes: “It doesn’t say ‘except the criminal laws.’

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, gee, we’ll, let’s send — let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.” 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.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. With the Trump impeachment unfolding in Washington, we will awaited similar reports of Thanksgiving dinner conversations that go terribly wrong–after their argument led to patio furniture being flung at each other. __.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As first reported by the Washington Examiner, Swalwell used his official position to reserve the space for the press conference and lent his assistance to Hunter in refusing to appear before the House committees investigating his father, President Biden. Where Bowman’s offense was treated as a misdemeanor, Hunter’s offense is a felony.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2025

Merchan allowed a dead misdemeanor to be resuscitated by allowing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to effectively prosecute declined federal offenses. Jonnathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2023

Yet many in the Democratic Party and the media have insisted on criminal charges in the Mar-a-Lago case , including barring Trump from office for even a misdemeanor conviction on unlawful possession. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

” Washington is in full spin control with pundits who previously said that even a misdemeanor conviction of Trump should bar him from ever running again for federal office. ” Biden seem to struggle to find words to express his revulsion : “How that could possibly happen, how one anyone could be that irresponsible.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

I have been critical of the indictment, which is reportedly based on a highly dubious use of a New York misdemeanor charge to revise a long dormant federal election law charge. Yet, there was no hue and cry for this type of prosecution in Washington or New York. A Section 175 charge would normally be a misdemeanor.

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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. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2023

The only crime that has been discussed in this case is an unprecedented attempt to revive a misdemeanor for falsifying business documents that expired years ago. He cannot be the defender of the rule of law if he is using the legal process for political purposes. He is a Fox News contributor.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Warning: it has no legally nutritional content… Here is the column: “We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said of his indictment of former president Donald Trump. At some point, Bragg will have to state the actual criminal basis for these 34 counts.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2025

With criminal negligence, he causes physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument. Assault in the third degree is a class A misdemeanor. Otherwise, the enforcement of the criminal code becomes little more than a matter of fleeting karma.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

For many weeks, experts on both the left and the right expressed doubts that Bragg could charge Trump with falsifying business records, a misdemeanor with a now-expired two-year statute of limitation. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at The George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2023

After years of delaying disclosures and admissions, Hunter could now be pushing to cap off the criminal side of the scandal before more information is released in Arkansas and Washington. For the White House, even a criminal plea is preferred if they can avoid one particular claim — and they may be succeeding.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

That point was reached this season when Pederson decided not to tie the game against Washington in the third quarter with a field goal and instead put Nate Sudfeld in the game over Jalen Hurts. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 6, 2022

Below is my column in The Hill on the subpoena war raging in Washington as the Jan. The Navarro case is just one skirmish in a subpoena war engulfing Washington. These subpoena fights seem to be unfolding with little consideration given to the potential costs, either for Washington institutions or the individuals involved.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

What is particularly chilling is that the establishment in Washington is not even trying to rebut the widespread view of a two-tiered system of justice. That’s right, Hunter is actually commendable for, after over five years, pleading to two misdemeanors with no likely jail time. She is not a true Biden.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

First, it expired as a chargeable misdemeanor after two years — and that was roughly five years ago. Second, it was a mere misdemeanor that could be brushed off by Trump even if they succeeded. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2024

After all, the base charge is a simple misdemeanor under a New York law against falsifying business records. However, it really did not matter, because the misdemeanor has been as dead as Dillinger for years. The dead misdemeanor was shocked back into life by claiming that it was committed to conceal another crime.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2022

6 riot or an outgrowth of an ongoing grand jury investigation in Washington that could involve charges of seditious conspiracy, obstruction of official proceedings or other serious counts. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

I have long been critical of the case as a clear example of the weaponization of the criminal justice system. No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the defendant was anyone other than Trump. However, two prosecutors, Carey R.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As previously discussed , the government has routinely elected not to prosecute high-ranking officials for improperly removing classified material or has sought mere misdemeanor charges in the most egregious cases. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2025

He then adds that he could not vacate the conviction because it would constitute a disproportionate result and cause immeasurable damage to the citizenrys confidence in the Rule of Law. As predicted, the two federal cases never saw a trial in Florida or Washington, D.C. Of course, this did not work out as many hoped.

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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. They largely ignore that the misdemeanor is expired. Bragg caved.

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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

MAY 30, 2024

The prosecutors zapped a dead misdemeanor back into life by claiming a violation under New York’s election law 17-152. I remain hopeful that a couple jurors will balk at this manufactured criminal theory. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. and Maurice C.

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