JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Weiss investigation, however, languished for years even as some of us were pointing out that the statute of limitations was about to pass on felonies. That includes obvious questions like why, when whistleblowers said the defense had agreed to an extension of the statute of limitations, Weiss let felonies expire.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. Texas , which were amply supported by the habeas and trial records, and whether the Texas court disregarded the Supreme Court’s express guidance for conducting a prejudice analysis pursuant to Strickland v. relisted after the Jan. 25, March 4, March 18 and March 25 conferences).

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Felony drug distribution carried a maximum sentence of 30 years and a fine up to $500,000 when I practiced as a prosecutor in DC. If local and federal prosecutors don’t apply the law’s statutes precisely — within the spirit of the law — I believe that’s exactly what we will see. Let’s look at the federal “felon in possession” statute.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

So-called “trigger” laws have already gone into effect in states where anti-abortion statutes are already on the books have been activated by the decision. Washington Gov. HB314 reinforced Alabama statute banning abortion that was never appealed after it was made unenforceable under Roe. The pushback was just as swift.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2024

The Court found the federal statutes imposing a reasonable temporary limitation on this right. While the result in Washington was not as bad as the unanimous decision in Delaware, it may well have sealed his fate on appeal. Special Counsel David Weiss seemed to work hard to avoid any felony charges against the president’s son.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

I also raised the problem of an investigation that remained ongoing for years as the statute of limitations expired on major potential crimes. Two IRS whistleblowers recently confirmed that the expiration of potential tax felony crimes was raised with Weiss and the Department of Justice (DOJ).

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2024

Many of us have also criticized Weiss for allowing the most serious tax charges to expire despite being able to extend the statute of limitations. He has yet to offer a compelling reason why prosecutors would ever allow viable felony charges to expire when they could have extended that period.

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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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JANUARY 29, 2025

(Photographer: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images) For years, Donald Trump was radioactive in elite legal circles. 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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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

He pleaded guilty to felonies including false statements to banks in 2018. There is a five-year statute of limitations on lying to Congress. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney. Is that your testimony?”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

According to the Washington Post , Dana Nessel “is conferring with election law experts on whether officials may have violated any state laws prohibiting them from engaging in bribery, perjury and conspiracy.” As I have previously written, a leading proponent has been former prosecutor and Washington Post columnist Randall D.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After graduating from Yale in 2001, she spent a year working as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., Kruger returned to Washington in 2007 to take a job as an assistant to the U.S. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. before going to clerk for Judge David Tatel of the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2022

Seven other states require a “good cause or special need” to carry a concealed gun in public under statutes like the New York law that are now at risk. In 1991, the number of states plus Washington, DC with this kind of law on the books was nearly double that, according to Every Town for Gun Safety.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The federal district court for the District of South Dakota temporarily enjoined enforcement of provisions of a riot boosting statute enacted in South Dakota in 2019 in response to anticipated protests of the Keystone XL pipeline. Washington High Court Declined to Review Decision Giving Pipeline Protester Right to Present Necessity Defense.

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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.” The statute is below. Here is the statute: 13-1202. Threatening or intimidating pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 3 is a class 3 felony.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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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 20, 2023

Yet, there was no hue and cry for this type of prosecution in Washington or New York. The only way to convert it into a Class E felony requires a showing that the “intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.” A Section 175 charge would normally be a misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

Given Bragg’s failure to even state the key offense allowing him to bring these 34 felonies, Merchan should have scheduled a hearing on the threshold legal questions in two weeks — not schedule all motions to be heard in December. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at The George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2023

If reports are accurate, he may attempt to “bootstrap” the misdemeanor into a felony (and longer statute of limitations) by alleging an effort to evade federal election charges. Moreover, Bragg could face the same statute of limitation concerns on some of the issues previously investigated by the Justice Department.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The action involved closing valves on pipelines in Washington, Montana, Minnesota, and North Dakota. He had been convicted of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in October 2017. State of Washington , No. Foster , 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. Alaska, filed Feb.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Moreover, they testified that the statute of limitations on the most serious charges related to these foreign payments were knowingly allowed to expire by the Justice Department, even though it would have been possible to extend the statute of limitations. First, there are the tax violations.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If he is found to have lied, he can be charged with a criminal felony. Hunter has benefited from the Justice Department limiting its investigation and inexplicably allowing the statute of limitations to run on key charges. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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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. Cohen would show up with a self-affirming criminal record.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. 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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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations. But Bragg then used the alleged federal crime to bootstrap a defunct misdemeanor charge into a felony in the current case. Like his predecessor, Bragg previously scoffed at the case.

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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

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.) Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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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. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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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. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney.

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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. The only crime that was clearly established in his trial was the grand larceny that Cohen admitted to under oath (after the statute of limitations had run out).

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 13, 2023

It is also the same Weiss who reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run out on Hunter’s major tax offenses, even though he had the option to extend it. It is the same Weiss who did not indict on major tax felonies and cut a plea deal that brushed aside a felony gun charge.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. She argued that virtually every one of the prior 215 felony indictments involved the use or creation of fake government IDs. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

While the Justice Department allowed the statutes of limitations to run on various felonies, Hunter would be faced with a new set of charges with years for criminal charges to be brought by prosecutors. That may now change. If Hunter lies to congressional investigators, he can be charged with a federal crime. That will now change.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

To make matters worse, the same suspects have surfaced to celebrate Trump’s expected demise — and remind the public of the perceived double standard in Washington. Under the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the president.” Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations. The limit is two years for a misdemeanor and, even if he can convert this into a felony, it is not clear if he can meet the longer five-year limitation. This is a patently political prosecution.

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