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Stormy Daniels Day: Alvin Bragg Lights Dumpster Fire in Manhattan

JonathanTurley

Bragg has refused to clearly define the crime that Trump was seeking to conceal when payments for a non-disclosure agreement were listed as a legal expense. to 14.5 %, in the 2020 presidential election. You have a case based on two dead misdemeanors shocked back into life by a still mysterious theory of an undefined crime.

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The Curious Case of Steven Baker: Advocate, Journalist, or Advocacy Journalist?

JonathanTurley

Now, the Biden administration has arrested Baker on four misdemeanor charges linked to his entry into the Capitol on that day. In the George Floyd riots, at least 126 journalists were arrested or detained in 2020. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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Why Police are ‘Natural Allies’ in the Fight Against Drug Abuse

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police chief) and his academic colleagues found that a majority of police officers surveyed “perceived control” over their decision to arrest for misdemeanors (69 percent) or confiscate drug paraphernalia like syringes (56 percent). Not coincidentally, Oregon decriminalized drug possession in 2020. Rory Fleming.

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The Designated Defendant: Was Hunter Biden Always the Fall Guy?

JonathanTurley

He kept up that self-destructive lifestyle , he said, until his father’s 2020 presidential campaign began. He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. Yet this may be the most vital role that Hunter has played for his family. Hunter Biden finally is important.

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Spring Break: Christie’s Prediction of a Trump Conviction by Spring Just Hit a Snag

JonathanTurley

He was specifically referring to the prosecutions linked to the 2020 election denial in Atlanta and D.C. So that leaves the two cases surrounding the 2020 election. Powell pleaded to misdemeanors for a deal that avoids jail time and preserves her ability to resume the practice of law. Jamie Raskin (D-Md).

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Rittenhouse Goes To Jury After Case Collapses in Court

JonathanTurley

One issue to watch is how Judge Bruce Schroeder handles the gun count, which is based on what I believe is a flawed legal interpretation by the prosecution. Here is the column: The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse increasingly seems like a legal version of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. One man – not society – is on trial.

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What Europe Can Teach Us About Ending Mass Incarceration

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On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. But, around the same time, American legal reformers started looking between states for inspiration, which helped the U.S.