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A Criminal Case Fifty Years In The Making

The Crime Report

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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Plan B From Outer Manhattan: Why the Court Should Move the Trump Trial Out of Manhattan

JonathanTurley

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. percent , in the 2020 presidential election. percent to 14.5 In 1878, in Reynolds v.

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Opponents of Bail Reform Rely on ‘Fear Tactics,’ Conference Told  

The Crime Report

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. By January 1 of 2020 that population had been reduced by 2,000 people all at once. Before those people were released, crime in New York City was down 1.7

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Supreme Court takes three cases and depublishes three opinions; dissenting votes in four review denials

At the Lectern

2020) 50 Cal.App.5th ” The Second District, Division Six, denied habeas relief in an unpublished opinion that expressly disagreed with a 2020 decision by the Second District, Division One ( People v. Offley (2020) 48 Cal.App.5th Division Six concluded an erroneous felony-murder instruction was harmless.

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