JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2024

There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. It wasn’t hush money. It was consideration.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

After an absurd $450 million decision courtesy of Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will bring his equally controversial criminal prosecution over hush money paid to former porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Like his predecessor, Bragg previously scoffed at the case.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As expected, Weiss refused to answer most of the questions, but seemed perfectly Nietzschean in explaining obvious conflicts between the accounts of whistleblowers and the Attorney General. Indeed, after years of denial, some Democratic members and the journalists are now admitting that Hunter Biden clearly broke the law.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

Yet now Comey is heralding the effort of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg , who campaigned on a pledge of bagging Trump for some unspecified crime. However, the law also protects people from selective prosecution and affords them protection through the statute of limitations. That is a good-faith debate.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Attorney General Merrick Garland moved quickly and aggressively to prosecute Trump associates such as Steve Bannon who failed to appear or cooperate with Congress. Thus far, he has received every break from federal prosecutors, from expired statutes of limitations to reported tip-offs on investigators’ interviews.

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 15, 2014

Cooley Law School. We discuss the Innocence Project and the Post Conviction DNA Testing Statutes that opened the door for exoneration of the innocent around the country. In 2006, Professor Mitchell received the Justice For All award from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan for her Innocence Project work.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. But they were still frog-marched into a plea bargain by their defense attorney or the prosecutor or the judge or some combination thereof. Photo by Brandy Brewer.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

” The responsibility for this theater of the absurd is Attorney General Merrick Garland who has again shown a lack of strength and leadership at a key moment for his department. Now it appears that the controversial “sweetheart deal” was not the first choice of US Attorney David Weiss. Why would that be?

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

The scene from the 1931 movie “Frankenstein” came to mind this week as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg prepared an indictment of former President Donald Trump. There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations. Here is the column: “It’s moving.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

In April, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg related to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election. Under the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the president.” Smith is now left in a battle not with Trump but time.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Hunter has benefited from the Justice Department limiting its investigation and inexplicably allowing the statute of limitations to run on key charges. False statements on any of these questions could result in new charges and pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland to prosecute.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

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. The bootstrapping of a federal crime under this statute appears unprecedented and likely unsustainable. That theory has been widely ridiculed, even by many on the left.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

to be charged criminally for transporting 36 people to Sacramento. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that. After the riot, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., There are other crimes that have been proven. Those are plenty to start with.”.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

However, there are elements to the decision that are deeply concerning on issues ranging from free speech to attorney-client privilege. Given the Posts long record of running professed slam dunk criminal charges against Trump that amounted to nothing, that is hardly a surprise. After all, the media heralded the statements of D.C.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2023

Given a suspect who is offering an implausible explanation for potentially criminal conduct, most prosecutors would want to secure a statement on the record. Lying to investigators is itself a federal crime — removing any questions over statutes of limitation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and a second summer as a summer associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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