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Washington State Faces Defense Attorney Shortages

The Crime Report

Franklin County in Washington state is facing a lawyer shortage as newly booked inmates are not being assigned defense attorneys for the last two months, Cameron Probert reports for Tri-City Herald. Franklin County officials are looking to add $300,000 to the Office of Public Defense to attract more lawyers.

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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption

JonathanTurley

million were sent to a law firm and another firm associated with Hunter Biden. His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.” This past weekend, there were reports that, after the threatening WhatsApp message was sent, two payments totaling $5.1

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Alvin Bragg and The Art of Not Taking Law Too Seriously

JonathanTurley

After the first week of testimony, the trial of Donald Trump is increasingly looking like a mad prosecution machine by lawyers who don’t take law too seriously. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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The Closing: Trump’s Final Argument Must Be Clarity to Chaos in Merchan’s Courtroom

JonathanTurley

Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. Three-legged Stool A classic closing pitch by lawyers is to use a physical object like a three-legged stool. That is why many prosecution offices have conviction rates in the 80%-90% range.

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Bragg and the Jackson Pollock School of Prosecution: Why the Trump Trial Could End With a Hung Jury

JonathanTurley

Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. Witnesses said that payments to lawyers are routinely recorded as legal expenses. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. and Maurice C.

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The Neutron Prosecutor: How Special Counsel Hur May Prove the Ultimate Punchline in Washington

JonathanTurley

There is no question that the best course in dealing with a felonious president is to first remove the president from office through the impeachment process and then indict the former president in the wake of the Senate conviction. So the question is whether Hur can get anything other than free drinks in Washington.

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“Are You Staring Me Down?”: Judge Merchan Becomes an Oddity in his Own Courtroom

JonathanTurley

There will be no dead felony zapped back into life against Cohen, as it was for Trump. You have a disbarred lawyer not only casually discussing lies and uncharged crimes, but prosecutors who proceeded to get him to remind the jury that he is not facing any further criminal charges. The result is truly otherworldly. Michael Cohen.

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