SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

After lingering on the court’s docket for more than a year, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal , ruling in an unsigned opinion that death-row prisoner Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective performance at sentencing by failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

b) Involuntary—in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony; or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection. What is clear is that personal injury lawyers will view the Bonanza ranch as aptly named for civil litigation.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Biden has ushered in a quiet revolution in what type of lawyers get selected for the federal judiciary. Over decades, presidents have mostly picked former prosecutors and corporate lawyers for top judgeships. and spent 21 years as a Felony District Court Judge. They are protecting the constitutional rights all of us depend on.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

And over a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the justices declined to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. The justices should also weigh in, Avenatti contended, on whether an attorney can be held liable for extortion for his conduct during litigation.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 5, 2023

” For months, many have raised objections to the effort of Manhattan District Attorney to use a flawed legal theory to essentially litigate a federal election violation that the Justice Department opted not to charge. They also may prove to be lawyers on the Wilde side. This is where math and the law meet.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kruger left WilmerHale for the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught a class in transnational litigation as a visiting assistant professor. Lawyers who practice regularly before that court describe Kruger in terms that are not unlike those used to characterize Breyer. solicitor general.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

If the United States may sue any State or state official who expresses a contested view of the Constitution, then law professors, state lawyers, and all government officials have cause for serious concern.” The law imposes fines of $50,000 for violations of that ban. The government’s theory, Divine wrote, would sweep broadly. “If

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At the Lectern

APRIL 3, 2025

.” The Pollock decision held appellate costs are among those costs that a statute says cant be assessed against a losing FEHA plaintiff unless theres a finding that the action was frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless when brought, or the plaintiff continued to litigate after it clearly became so. Murder resentencing dissenting vote.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 8, 2024

Those are four words that no lawyer wants to hear from a judge in a hearing. But that was not the least of it for Justice Department lawyers fighting House subpoenas into the Biden corruption scandal. Reyes noted that the DOJ lawyers were “making a bunch of arguments that you would never accept from any other litigant.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2023

This bargain had apparently involved dropping two of three felonies, but had not included an agreement on the sentence. The prosecutor and then the defense lawyer offered their spins on the defendant’s criminal record. The helpless terror on his face as he turned to his lawyer has stayed with me for 25 years. A juvenile record.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The campaign finance charge actually was one of the more credible claims, since former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to it. However, such crimes are notoriously difficult to litigate , as shown by the failed 2012 prosecution of former presidential candidate John Edwards.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 13, 2023

On Wednesday former president Donald Trump sued his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen for more than $500 million in a federal court in Miami. If you are a lawyer, an architect, or even his dentist, you’d better get paid up front. As James D. If you make a deal with him, you had better get it in writing.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

This week, New York judges and lawyers appear eager to prove that the same is true for cases against Donald Trump. Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election. Indeed, bank officials testified they wanted more business with the Trump organization).

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Much of the litigation, however, has come from civil litigation. Despite a strong case for prosecution, Epstein’s lawyers were able to secure a ridiculous deal with prosecutors. Epstein pleaded guilty to a Florida state charge of felony solicitation of underage girls in 2008 and served a 13-month jail sentence.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

These appointments are already influencing rulings on key areas, including administrative law, corporate litigation, and constitutional law. Trump isnt just going after his rivals as promised on the campaign trail, Trump is also going after lawyers of his rivals. Picking fights with lawyers is tricky. They are smart.

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