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A Jackson County, Michigan, Jury Wednesday convicted Joseph Morrison, Pete Musico and Paul Bellar for felony charges related to their 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer from her summer home. . The convictions are the first under Michigan’s anti-terrorism act.
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associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, about her research on the impact of the criminal justice system on marginalized groups. The Conversation U.S. Her work emphasizes the needs of defendants in the criminal justice system, who she refers to as justice-involved people.
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is an Emeritus Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Eastern Michigan University, and the co-founder and North American Editor of the Sage Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime. Several weeks after losing the 2020 election, on Jan.6, Gregg Barak, Ph.D.,
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Tennessee , Michigan , and New York over the past five years. ” They argued that Congress intended such tactics would be punishable as mere misdemeanors by the FACE Act even though the Department of Justice under the Biden administration charged the activists with serious 10-year felonies.
Small Business Association of Michigan v. Houston was convicted of two counts of murder and two counts of felonious assault in Ohio state court, and his habeas petition was dismissed as untimely under AEDPAs one-year statute of limitations. Yellen (WDMI 3/3/2025) Judge Robert Jonker (R. Davis What its about: Houston v.
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.
Then again, there is plenty of evidence in Trump’s political experiences from the four criminal indictments and the combined 91 felony charges that support Trump’s narrative on lawlessness. For example, who else but Donald Trump would brag about how he could shoot someone on 5 th Avenue without suffering any negative consequences?
With the evidence already revealed by the hearings, the AG has no other choice than to prosecute Trump and his allies for a range of assorted felonies. Gregg Barak , Ph.D. ,
While these political vs. legal interpretations of reality capture the moment in the ongoing saga of Donald Trump, I do not believe that the label of victim is “baked in” nor that his narrative of victimhood will be the prevailing one.
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