FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Walsh — As readers of the FDA Law Blog know, the FDC Act is a strict liability criminal enforcement statute that can impose criminal misdemeanor penalties on a person without any showing of intent. We will cover further use of the second misdemeanor charge in future posts. By JP Ellison & Anne K.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The statement could effectively knock out the misdemeanor gun possession count — the one count that could still be in play for the jury after the prosecution’s case on the more serious offense appeared to collapse in court. I have a legal education.” It is also hard to instruct a jury on an ambiguous statute.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2021

Moreover, some $40 per month of misdemeanor probation fees mostly go directly to the county system. Brad Little to apply the same emergency executive powers used during the pandemic to “suspend state statutes and rules authorizing the assessment and collection of juvenile fees.”. It called on Gov. The full report can be accessed here.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2022

Denezpi’s legal team appealed on double-jeopardy grounds and then appealed the denial, where the 9th Circuit denied him. Current sentencing restrictions are why we see misdemeanor level sentences for violent crimes, like the 140 day sentence Denezpi was originally handed down for his assault charges.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Now, the activist with Direct Action Everywhere has filed a police report and is threatening legal action. The protester was engaged, at a minimum, in a criminal misdemeanor while be pursued by security. It allows for the use of a citizen’s arrest for any felonies but also a misdemeanor if it is committed in your presence.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

922(g) , the federal statute barring people with prior felony convictions from possessing firearms, the government must prove that the defendant knew he was a felon at the time he possessed a firearm. Common sense,” he continued, suggests that most people with felony convictions are aware of their legal status as convicted felons.

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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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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

That is common in sexual harassment cases and hostile workplaces where you can get around statute of limitations when at least one case is recent or ongoing. Forcible touching is a class A misdemeanor. However, as shown by the Bill Cosby case , such evidence can create reversible error in criminal cases.

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2021

Failure to comply with the law is a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in prison and $1,000 in fines. Because of the procedural posture of the lawsuit, the court concluded that “the Statute must survive Planned Parenthood’s pre-enforcement, facial attack.” Writing for the majority, Circuit Judge Amy St.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 29, 2025

Facts of the Case The federal statute at issue, Title 18 U.S.C. Delligattis indictment charged him with attempted murder under the violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering (VICAR) statute, 1959(a)(5), which required proof that Delligatti had attempted second-degree murder under New York law. 924(c)(3)(A). Castleman , 572 U.S.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Texas authorities say they have the right to keep it under civil forfeiture statutes. In addition to challenging the perverse financial incentives built into civil forfeiture, the class action lawsuit highlights problems with police notions of “consent”—an important legal question when officers take property using civil forfeiture.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

People walk dangerous routes when the government eliminates or fails to provide legal avenues that are safe, permanent and predictable whether it’s across the street or across an international border. When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S. Decriminalizing jaywalking was a measure of equity. Thompson that U.S.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Fifty years ago, when I was working for the Legal Aid Society, I was struck by the vitality of the courtroom. Yale law professor] Monica Bell has a phrase for this, which I find very useful, which is “legal estrangement.” That’s not just the research community but the legal community and the advocacy community.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

The debacle in the Hunter Biden investigation has left most objective legal analysts in disbelief, with one CNN analyst calling it an “ unholy mess.” I also raised the problem of an investigation that remained ongoing for years as the statute of limitations expired on major potential crimes. What followed has bordered on the burlesque.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

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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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Mark McCloskey later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors to end the case, but was then granted a pardon. The department denied Guastello’s application for another liquor license based on the statute’s mandate that no person convicted of a liquor law violation could receive a liquor license.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2023

However, it is also a case study of the perils of legal gluttony. The six misdemeanor charges and three felonies carry a potential sentence of 17 years for alleged tax evasion and filing a false return. The scandal was capped off legally and the media was running cover for Hunter. It could have been worse.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The contempt of Congress statute, 2 U.S.C. § 192 , provides that if Bannon is found in contempt, he will be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year of confinement or up to $100,000. The post House committee votes to hold Steve Bannon in contempt appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2021

which states a person who commits any primary offense — such as misdemeanor property destruction — with the intent to “intimidate or terrorize another person or with reason to believe that his action would intimidate or terrorize that person” is subject to a class B misdemeanor primary offense becoming a class A misdemeanor.

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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. 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

JUNE 14, 2023

While there are ambiguities around the meaning of this policy, many legal observers read this rule as kicking in 90 days before an election. A speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment − and a federal statute − would set the case for trial within 70 days. The Trump team would be legally insane not to waive.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Contempt is one of the House’s only tools to punish witnesses who refuse to cooperate, but it’s riddled with legal loopholes and ambiguities that could allow Donald Trump’s allies to bury the Jan. Bannon indicated no willingness to deal with the panel until those legal matters are sorted out. While the Jan.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 3, 2021

Putting aside the likelihood of impeachment proceedings, Cuomo is looking at immediate legal exposure. Under federal law, the statute of limitations is three years. State periods are shorter but a current allegation can be used to incorporate into prior cases which might otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here is the column: It seems the subject of Donald Trump , like necessity, is the mother of invention, at least when it comes to legal analysis. 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.

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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. The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations.

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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). It is only the latest reinvention of Michael Cohen – this time from legal heavy to redemptive sinner.

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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

MARCH 31, 2023

The only crime that has been discussed in this case is an unprecedented attempt to revive a misdemeanor for falsifying business documents that expired years ago. Moreover, Bragg could face the same statute of limitation concerns on some of the issues previously investigated by the Justice Department. Bragg had a choice to make.

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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. That, apparently, is left to the suspension of disbelief. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2021

s top deputy, said a prosecutor could bring misdemeanor charges of forcible touching or third-degree sexual abuse — or both onto Cuomo. . In both cases where the testimony according to James is damning, the incidents fall within the two-year statute of limitations that applies to misdemeanors in New York State. . “It

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. Renewable Fuels Association v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The California federal court said the substantive legal issues in the District of Wyoming case were distinct from the procedural issues at issue in this action. Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. The court ordered the Board of Regents to produce all requested records within 90 days. Arizona Board of Regents , No.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

Donald Trump remains Bragg’s political manifest destiny even if there is no legal landfall in sight. Here is the column: It appears that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will go another week in the legal effort to locate the nation of Kailasa on a map. That theory has been widely ridiculed, even by many on the left.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

A very bold and impressive broad-gauged indictment that few, if any legal pundits, saw coming. Turns out the payments of hush money to at least two women—misdemeanor offenses—were not really what these indictments were all about. Ergo, there were no misdemeanor charges, only first-degree felonies. Kaplan rejected the merger.

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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. This week will highlight the damage done to New York’s legal system because of this unhinged crusade. However, two prosecutors, Carey R. Dunne and Mark F.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 6, 2022

The statute of limitations for contempt of Congress is five years. The question is whether it will pursue these two misdemeanors — which could result in as little as 30 days and no more than a year in jail — if the next House seeks to rescind the contempt referral. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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