JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

One of the threats faced by New York Gov. The New York Penal Law focuses on “forcible touching” cases. Forcible touching is a class A misdemeanor. That is the difference between the New York Attorney General report and a criminal case. Here is the provision : 130.52 Forcible touching.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

According to the New York Times , one of the six criminal counts Rittenhouse faces is possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18. Black says he did not say anything to dissuade him from bringing it, according to the New York Times. . Legal Claim to Self Defense? . He has pleaded not guilty.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Share This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. To highlight the domestic violence implications of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. A preview of the case is here.

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2021

In some examples cited in the paper, a Virginia defendant in Virginia charged with transporting marijuana pleaded guilty to trafficking a different type of drug altogether; a New York defendant charged with animal cruelty pleaded guilty to trespassing even though no trespassing was involved.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. Conversely, New York charged a woman for calling police in a racially charged incident in Central Park. In 2009, the New York courts ruled that Metro workers were not legally required to assist a woman being raped at a station.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 25, 2022

On Thursday, the court issued its first major ruling on the Second Amendment in over a decade , striking down a New York gun regulation and holding that the right to bear arms extends outside the home. Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

According to the Seattle Times , Inslee declared that “it should not be legal in the state of Washington for elected officials or candidates for office to willfully lie about these election results.” ” He would make such comments a gross misdemeanor subject to incarceration. What does that even mean?

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Using a ten years’ study period, the research team compared the outcomes for Bronx defendants who were provided traditional public defender representation by the New York Legal Aid Society against those experienced by another group, represented by Bronx Defenders lawyers who were funded and organized to operate on a “holistic” model.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

New York nonprofit The Legal Aid Society (LAS) Thursday reported that data from the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) shows the successes of New York’s 2019 bail reform law. The post New York bail reform law effective, not linked to rise in crime, data shows appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

.” 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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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

A story in Houston has everything you would want in a legal controversy: a murder, a mysterious figure known only as “D”, a missing Bengal tiger named India and even Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame. The punishment is a misdemeanor charge and fines of $500 to $2,000. However, the penalties are notably higher.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In a surprise move that critics charge has political overtones, former New York Gov. 17 to face charges on a misdemeanor sex crime relating to an allegation that he “forcibly” touched a staff member. The charge, a Class A misdemeanor, carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail, reports The City.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Loki factor was evident in the press conference this week when Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked about the rising lawlessness seen in major cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: “Does the president still think that crime is up because of the pandemic?”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We recently discussed how figures like New York Times columnist Tom Friedman calling on people to move to Georgia to rig the vote in favor of a Democratic takeover of the Senate. These groups often have ample legal advisers who are aware of the calls for fraudulent registrations. Yet, Friedman is not a lawyer. 21-2-603.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Two separate New York bills, the Stop the Violence in the Sex Trades Act and the Sex Trade Survivors Justice and Equality Act, aim to decriminalize sex work in significantly different ways, reports Law 360. The bill would make selling sex legal but still prosecute patrons and pimps.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The troubles of more well-known figures like George Gascón in Los Angeles, Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, or Alvin Bragg in New York have made headlines. Following a spate of shootings in New York in recent months, the State Association of Chiefs of Police rallied in Albany, proposing amendments to roll back justice reforms.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

He was a deputy commissioner at the New York Police Department (NYPD) in the early 1990s, when violent crime rates began to plummet. More recently, as president of John Jay College at the City University of New York from 2004 to 2016, he helped to spread the focused-deterrence model across the country. Later, at the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2024

The history of the Act, and its namesake, remains a blot on our legal system. As the founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock set about his work of “saving the young from contamination” and “Devil traps.” Below is my column in the Hill on the return of the Comstock Act to the national debate.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding scandal surrounding the Hunter Biden investigation. Even CNN legal analysts are now calling the handling of the investigation at the Justice Department an “ unholy mess.” The reason for his change at Justice, according to the New York Times?

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2024

Notably, Weiss said that it was Hunter Biden’s legal team that inexplicably shut down negotiations by playing hardball in seeking to preserve the original agreement: “The government proposed changes to the agreements that addressed only the issues identified during the hearing. Motion at 13.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 3, 2021

The late New York Gov. However, his son, Andrew Cuomo, the current New York governor, moved today from presumed sinner but presumed assaulter. Putting aside the likelihood of impeachment proceedings, Cuomo is looking at immediate legal exposure. That could be important in litigating these claims.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

(Photographer: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images) For years, Donald Trump was radioactive in elite legal circles. But now Sullivan & Cromwell will step in as Trump prepares another challenge to his conviction in the New York hush money case. No white-shoe law firm would touch him.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2025

Below is my column in the New York Post on the statement by Acting Justice Juan Merchan in the sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump. ” If so, that is a chilling indictment of the entire New York court system. ” Even liberal legal experts have denounced the case and Sen. from the judge himself.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance. faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. Normally, criminal actions will cut off legal causation, though not always.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 25, 2024

However, today will be the first time that a column becomes a legal matter for contempt. On April 15, Trump quoted my New York Post column from the day before titled “A serial perjurer will try to prove an old misdemeanor against Trump in an embarrassment for the New York legal system.”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2024

Here is the column: Former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor ) Nikole Hannah-Jones declared recently that “ all journalism is activism.” Now, the Biden administration has arrested Baker on four misdemeanor charges linked to his entry into the Capitol on that day. She was acquitted.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2021

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s future remains uncertain following a report by the state attorney general’s office concluding that he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women throughout his recent political career — breaking state and federal laws, NBC News and The City NYC report. . Photo by Welington Abraham Trump via Flickr.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

The Capitol riot continues in statehouses across the country, in a bloodless, legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor can try in court,” said a New York Times editorial this week. Of that charge, more than 160 people have already plead guilty and receive generally no jail time for the misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2024

I have long been a critic of the Bragg indictment as legally incomprehensible. For months, even liberal legal analysts have expressed dismay that Bragg’s indictment had not clearly stated what specific crime that Trump sought to conceal by allegedly misrepresenting payments to former adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial today in New York. 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. However, two prosecutors, Carey R.

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JURIST

JANUARY 2, 2025

While new laws taking effect Wednesday in California, Colorado, New York, Delaware, and Minnesota have focused on increasing gun control in various ways, laws in New Hampshire and Kentucky have expanded in favor of strengthening the right to own and use firearms.

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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). Michael Cohen worked for Trump The star witness is one of the most repellent figures in New York.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

I have been critical of the indictment, which is reportedly based on a highly dubious use of a New York misdemeanor charge to revise a long dormant federal election law charge. Trump faces serious legal threats in the ongoing Mar-a-Lago investigation. Although it may be politically popular, the case is legally pathetic.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the release of the indictment against former President Donald Trump. Yes, the man who has routinely knocked down felony crimes to misdemeanors — or dismissals — actually suggested that he had no alternative but to charge Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

With a dubious legal theory, the testimony has only magnified the criticism of the prosecution as parading sensational rather than material evidence before the jury and the public. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is losing even CNN hosts and legal analysts. The cross examination was devastating.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2025

The next best thing was to suspended proceedings and leave Trump in a type of legal suspended animation. The novel theory demanded a secondary offense, the crime that Trump was seeking to conceal by listing payments as legal expenses. Even CNNs senior legal analyst Elie Honig denounced the case as legally flawed and unprecedented.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the closing arguments scheduled for today in the trial of former President Donald Trump. There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. But what is that second crime?

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