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The Closing: Trump’s Final Argument Must Be Clarity to Chaos in Merchan’s Courtroom

JonathanTurley

There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. But what is that second crime?

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Bragg and the Jackson Pollock School of Prosecution: Why the Trump Trial Could End With a Hung Jury

JonathanTurley

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. It was not Trump who listed payments as legal expenses or retainer payments.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. Newsom previously asked the U.S. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.

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America’s Justice System Needs a ‘Course Correction’: Jeremy Travis

The Crime Report

Fifty years ago, when I was working for the Legal Aid Society, I was struck by the vitality of the courtroom. This was a story that you yourself talked about in a 2019 speech at New York Law School. Yale law professor] Monica Bell has a phrase for this, which I find very useful, which is “legal estrangement.”

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Comey’s “Good Day”: How Political Prosecutions Became “Ethical Leadership” in the Pursuit of Trump

JonathanTurley

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.

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Garland’s Theater of The Absurd: Why the Hunter Biden Scandal is No Longer a Laughing Matter

JonathanTurley

Even CNN legal analysts are now calling the handling of the investigation at the Justice Department an “ unholy mess.” 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.

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The Trump Trial in Manhattan is an Indictment of the New York Legal System

JonathanTurley

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.

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