Law School Lawyer Misdemeanor Statute 
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.
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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The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
We had sociologists, lawyers, police officers, formerly incarcerated folks, all around the same table talking about things like bail reform and victim assistance. This was a story that you yourself talked about in a 2019 speech at New York Law School. That’s Vera’s legacy. So being at Vera was an exciting time.
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. They largely ignore that the misdemeanor is expired. Bragg caved.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 22, 2023
He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge despite massive unpaid taxes, gun violations, and work as an unregistered foreign agent, among other alleged crimes. He answered “no” and the deal quickly fell apart, with Hunter Biden’s lawyer finally saying exasperatedly, “ Just rip it up.”
JonathanTurley
APRIL 15, 2024
No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the defendant was anyone other than Trump. Here is the column: The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.” Dunne and Mark F.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 24, 2023
First, it expired as a chargeable misdemeanor after two years — and that was roughly five years ago. Second, it was a mere misdemeanor that could be brushed off by Trump even if they succeeded. The bootstrapping of a federal crime under this statute appears unprecedented and likely unsustainable.
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