JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He has been reinvented by his lawyers and public relations team so many times he now seems like a Sybil witness with carefully constructed alternative personalities. The Justice Department has allowed felonies to lapse against Hunter, but these would be new potential charges with new dates under the statute of limitation.

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At the Lectern

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The initiative incorporated the definition of “criminal street gang” from another statute, a definition that AB 333 narrowed while generally limiting the applicability of sentence enhancements for gang-related felonies.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2010

Because the station cannot censor the candidate ad (except in the exceptionally rare situation where the airing of the ad might violate a Federal felony statute), the broadcaster has no liability for the contents of the ad. In fact, the Communications Act forbids a station from censoring a candidate ad.

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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. This incident could well prove a violation of a statute or regulation making the act “negligent per se.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

His lawyer, Michael Elliott, insists that he was on his way to surrender to police when he was picked up. ” It appears that D may stand for Deandre and the lawyer believes that D is involved in the illegal exotic animal trade. The Lacey Act and other federal wildlife statutes could be charged for such conduct.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

2020, alleging an elaborate scheme to retaliate against her for her criticism of the city’s manager by three individuals: Edward Trevino, the mayor; John Siemens, then the city’s police chief; and Alex Wright, a lawyer whom Siemens had appointed as a special detective to investigate Gonzalez. In 2019, in Nieves v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. The courts are not for landless laborers.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

And the court denied review to a group of 13 much-relisted cases that raised the question whether felony defendants have a constitutional right to a 12-person jury rather than just a six-person one. Environmental Protection Agency , concerning how specific Clean Water Act pollutant discharge permits have to be. rescheduled before the Mar.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 11, 2022

In a published opinion , the Sixth District found harmless error in the superior court reestablishing a Lanterman-Petris-Short Act involuntary conservatorship without advising the conservatee on the record of his right to a jury trial and concluded that the conservatee’s lawyer could waive that right on his behalf. 2016) 245 Cal.App.4th

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The six misdemeanor charges and three felonies carry a potential sentence of 17 years for alleged tax evasion and filing a false return. The Justice Department inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to run on the most serious allegations involving payments from years going back to 2016. It could have been worse.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

A 2013 study that examined 413 civil and criminal cases brought forward after Roe found that Black women were “significantly more likely to be arrested, reported to state authorities by hospital staff, and subjected to felony charges,” according to VICE News.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

He was placed on the state’s sex-offender registry for life in 2008, when he pleaded guilty in state court – under pressure from his lawyer and family, he maintains – to a charge of “lewd and lascivious conduct.” The failure to comply with these requirements is a felony under Florida law. Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A. Clements v.

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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. Medrano’s conviction relied on statements that Medrano himself had made to police about his involvement in the planned robbery.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Now a date has been set for December 13th, but Hunter’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, is suggesting that he will not appear in private but only in a public hearing. This is a bad start for Hunter, who is a lawyer. ” As I noted at the time, that is not quite how subpoenas work. It is really not an invitation.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2024

.” As written, these six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes but fail to allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission, i.e., the underlying felony solicited. Kimbrough, 300 Ga.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The alleged misconduct would constitute federal felonies. Moreover, publications are protected in most states by retraction statutes limiting or blocking damages for corrected stories. ” Those constitute per se categories of common law defamation, which include allegations of criminal conduct.

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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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2022

Nessel then restarted the prosecutions anew but ignored statutes that clearly do not allow the use of a single judge to issue indictments. It is not clear if future prosecutions might run afoul of the six year statute of limitations for most crimes. juror) to charge them.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2024

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. If any leg is missing, the stool collapses.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. To achieve that extraordinary goal, he has alleged that the document violations (which expired long ago under the statute of limitations) were committed to hide some other crime.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

This marks a turning point for Trump trading in parking garage lawyer Alina Habba for one of the most prestigious firms in the world. The legal foundation of the hush money case — weirdly bootstrapping a misdemeanor into a felony — may be bizarre, but it’s nonetheless exactly what the New York law says.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Yet at the press conference and Q & A following the arraignment District Attorney Alvin Bragg told the world that the 34 felony charges brought against defendant Trump were nothing more than the Manhattan office engaging in its everyday prosecution of “bread and butter” white-collar crimes.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The three cited statutes do not require classified status for a crime but two deal with the unlawful possession or handling of defense or sensitive information.) The filings do not indicate that the government has evidence of knowing concealment by Trump, but it cited various representations made by lawyers on his behalf.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The lawyer who holds that job, which is sometimes known as the “political deputy,” is normally the only deputy in the solicitor general’s office who is not a career civil servant (and the only other political appointee, beyond the solicitor general, in the office). solicitor general.

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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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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2024

Even more notably, he admitted to the larceny on the stand — after the statute of limitations had passed. There will be no dead felony zapped back into life against Cohen, as it was for Trump. While most members wait to take office to commit felonies, Rep. The result is truly otherworldly. Michael Cohen.

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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. The public pressure worked. Bragg caved. That is a good-faith debate.

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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. Like his predecessor, Bragg previously scoffed at the case. Dunne and Mark F.

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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). ” After he was arrested and Trump refused to pardon him , Cohen proved that when you scratch a lawyer, you can find a foe.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2024

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. Keep in mind that Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche asked Cohen point blank: “So you stole from the Trump organization, right?”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

He did this by paying to quash a potentially embarrassing story and then reimbursing his lawyer with other legal expenses. We have never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before any election in 2024. You are not alone.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Throughout his career, the disbarred lawyer has found powerful clients who valued his reputation for supporting any side that offered the biggest payback. He pleaded guilty to felonies including false statements to banks in 2018. There is a five-year statute of limitations on lying to Congress. Is that your testimony?”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

We have been discussing the campaign of The Lincoln Project and others to harass and abuse lawyers who represent the Trump campaign or other parties bringing election challenges. Eliason recently defended the attacks on fellow lawyers who are represented those challenging election results or practices). McNally, 483 U.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

His lawyer, Abbe Lowell, previously said Hunter would testify only when “the time is right” and is now saying that Hunter would testify in public, not the scheduled private session. If he is found to have lied, he can be charged with a criminal felony. Hunter must now address highly specific questions and evidence under oath.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

Bragg is attempting something that many lawyers think is as improbable as the reanimation of the dead. There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations.

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