2024 Criminal Law Laws Misdemeanor 
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. 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.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 23, 2023
Below is my column in the Hill on how the two criminal investigations over classified documents could create an unprecedented constitutional conflict in 2024. Yet enough similarities exist that Justice could weigh charges in both cases, even if only misdemeanors. One or both could be indicted.
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JonathanTurley
APRIL 24, 2024
New York prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told the jury that one of the crimes that Trump allegedly committed in listing the payments to Stormy Daniels as a “legal expense” was New York Law 17-152. It is not treated under federal law as a political contribution to yourself. As with James, Bragg saw it in Trump. Bragg did to.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 9, 2022
I previously testified in Congress on the earlier seizure of the boxes at Mar-a-Lago under the Presidential Records Act and how criminal prosecutions have been rare under the law. It was a flagrant and premeditated violation of federal law and put national security secrets at risk. This column also appeared on Fox.com.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Mark McCloskey later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors to end the case, but was then granted a pardon. As such, the state law on the seizure of the weapons stands. The law recognizes the difference between a conviction and guilt. Under federal law, a president can issue a preemptive pardon.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 21, 2023
He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. The Justice Department itself declined this prosecution and both the former chair of the Federal Election Commission and various election law experts have thrown shade on the theory.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 12, 2023
After the raid on Mar-a-Lago, experts and pundits went into a frenzy about Trump being given an “orange jumpsuit,” and some insisted that even a misdemeanor conviction should bar him from office. There indeed are obvious differences in the two cases, but the underlying danger of a misdemeanor charge still remains in both.
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