The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 1916, at a single Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan, workers also reported almost 200 severed fingers and 75,000 other injuries. Around the same time, coincidentally, the American criminal justice system began leaning into a till-then rarely invoked practice called “plea bargaining.”.

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 15, 2014

Cooley Law School. Her clinical teaching includes post-conviction, criminal defense, general civil practice, elder law and externship. 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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JonathanTurley

APRIL 20, 2022

We recently discussed the collapse of the Whitmer kidnapping case after a jury acquitted defendants in Michigan. Attorney Jonathan Roth. A Michigan jury recently acquitted Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta and hanged on the verdicts against Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. Shortly before the 2020 election, Gov.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2021

However, Trask was also key to the arrest of men in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. As a criminal defense attorney, I have long been a critic of the degree to which the FBI often pushes defendants to take actions to trigger criminal charges. Trask’s affidavit was used to arrest the men in the Michigan case.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2022

Below is my column in USA Today on the diminishing role of Attorney General Merrick Garland at the Justice Department after a series of controversies. ” If one image sums up the incredibly shrinking stature of Attorney General Merrick Garland, it is that line in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago search. Unlike the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The attorney for the Crumbleys reported said that they were not fleeing, though there will have to be some explanation why, if true, they were found in a warehouse near the Canadian border. Under Michigan law, Ethan Crumbley was not allowed to own a gun until he was 18. There was a $10,000 reward posted for their arrests.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Experts like Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe have previously declared Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” That included what Tribe suggested was a clear case of attempted murder of former Vice President Pence.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

All left an imprint on the court or the law. In December 1958, a Black law student attending Howard University tried to order a cheeseburger at a restaurant in a Virginia bus terminal. Virginia , holding that federal law barred racial segregation in interstate public transportation. Some worked behind the scenes. 17, 1934 – Oct.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Now, MSNBC legal analyst and Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade has gone one better. ” Notably, in those tweets, McQuade emphasized a charge under “DC law, manslaughter” which can then be charged under the federal Assimilative Crimes Act. Again, the use of such a law would fail for the reasons above.

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