The Crime Report

JANUARY 7, 2022

Newly elected Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has told prosecutors in his office in a memo that they should ask judges for jail or prison time only for the most serious offenses — including murder, sexual assault and economic crimes involving vast sums of money — unless the law requires them to do otherwise, reports the New York Times.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial and much awaited explanation of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the underlying alleged criminal conduct. The Trump cases have highlighted a couple of New York’s absurdly ambiguous laws.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Actor Jonathan Majors is set to go on trial Wednesday to face charges of misdemeanor assault and harassment for allegedly assaulting his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, during a car ride to his home, Jonah E. Bromwich reports for the New York Times. Manhattan district attorney Alvin L.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 8, 2024

Below is my New York Post column on the unseemly scene in the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan as prosecutors used porn star Stormy Daniels to present lurid details on her alleged tryst with former president Donald Trump. In New York, the relevance or credibility of witnesses like Daniels is largely immaterial.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 21, 2023

Since then, numerous New York City sources have beefed up city security to address calls for protest made by the former president and his supporters. There has been no official news on the determination of the grand jury in the Manhattan DA’s investigation yet. Joyce Alene White Vance, former U.S.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

Setting off what may be the country’s most high-profile clash over progressive prosecutor policies, Keechant Sewell, New York City’s new police commissioner, and newly-elected Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, are butting heads over their approaches to public safety.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

One of the threats faced by New York Gov. The New York Penal Law focuses on “forcible touching” cases. Forcible touching is a class A misdemeanor. That is the difference between the New York Attorney General report and a criminal case. Here is the provision : 130.52

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 25, 2024

Among the ten postings by former president Donald Trump being raised by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in his contempt sanction is the use of a quotation from one of my columns. In a hearing on the gag order Tuesday morning, Judge Juan Merchan reserved any final decision. ” Trump posted the title while attaching a link.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Steven Donziger, a former attorney who has spent decades battling Chevron Corp. In 2014, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of Chevron and held that Donziger could not seek to enforce or monetize the $9.5 billion judgment in the US.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2023

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in USA Today on the expected indictment of former President Donald Trump and the prospect of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg putting Michael Cohen on the stand as his star witness. Michael Cohen worked for Trump The star witness is one of the most repellent figures in New York.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

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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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2021

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s future remains uncertain following a report by the state attorney general’s office concluding that he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women throughout his recent political career — breaking state and federal laws, NBC News and The City NYC report. . ’ That’s not how it works.”

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The Crime Report

APRIL 1, 2022

In an experiment aimed at reducing chronic criminal behavior, the district attorney responsible for one of the country’s most violent neighborhoods has agreed to forego prosecutions for some non-violent offenses and place offenders under the responsibility of community organizations.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

While progressive prosecutor Larry Krasner handily won his bid for re-election in Philadelphia, voters in the conservative suburbs of Long Island elected tough-on-crime candidates who opposed New York State’s new bail reform law. The New York primaries were an early indication of voters’ go-slow mood towards reform.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Almost one year ago, then-Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced that his office would no longer prosecute individuals for prostitution and unlicensed massage. In New York, unlicensed massage is a class E felony, punishable by up to four years in prison, whereas prostitution is a class B misdemeanor.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2021

The justice reform movement, particularly measures to eliminate cash bail, has put the safety of the New York City transit system at risk, argues Nicole Gelinas , a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. helped propel him into his appointment as New York police commissioner. Bratton’s success?felonies

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the closing arguments scheduled for today in the trial of former President Donald Trump. There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. However, that was the failure of Cohen, who was later disbarred as an attorney.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the level of joy being expressed by many over the indictment of former president Donald Trump, including former FBI Director James Comey. 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.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. For many of us, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has created a new school of abstract law where there is no need for objective meaning. The key is to avoid any objective meaning.

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The Crime Report

MAY 27, 2021

Few district attorneys in recent history have had a first term as consequential as Larry Krasner’s. To put those numbers in context, Philadelphia had one-fifth the population of New York City, but three times as many residents living under supervision. Racial disparities significantly narrowed.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

I have been critical of the indictment, which is reportedly based on a highly dubious use of a New York misdemeanor charge to revise a long dormant federal election law charge. But the New York case would be easily dismissed outside of a jurisdiction like New York, where Bragg can count on highly motivated judges and jurors.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is losing even CNN hosts and legal analysts. In a case based on a dead misdemeanor and a rapidly falling heart rate on the manufactured felony, one can understand the appeal of witnesses who can speak for the dead. He has already allowed every effort to bring this dead misdemeanor back to life.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

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. In the last 17 months, 20 people have died in New York’s notorious jail facility on Rikers Island, the majority of whom were pre-trial detainees.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

According to the New York Times , one of the six criminal counts Rittenhouse faces is possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18. Black says he did not say anything to dissuade him from bringing it, according to the New York Times. . The case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

A 2020 paper from the New York-based Center for Court Innovation surveying California drug courts finding participation decreased statewide by 67 percent between 2014 and 2018. Only those who are accused of low-level, non-violent misdemeanors are eligible. Or users can reach out to those in law enforcement for a referral.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expected indictment against former President Donald Trump. 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. Here is the column: “It’s moving. It’s alive.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The New York Democrat was in front of the door without staffers and allegedly confused by the signs on it… So, he pulled a clearly marked fire alarm because he thought that that is how you open a door. this would more likely constitute a criminal misdemeanor. It could be a crime. Various Republicans want to see Rep.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding scandal surrounding the Hunter Biden investigation. ” 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. Dan Goldman of New York).

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the continued drama in Manhattan over the possible Trump indictment. 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.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Below is a longer version of my column in the New York Post on the leaking of the interviews of former counsel to Donald Trump. The interviews could magnify the difficulties for both Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Counsel Jack Smith in their respective prosecutions.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Loki factor was evident in the press conference this week when Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked about the rising lawlessness seen in major cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: “Does the president still think that crime is up because of the pandemic?”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2024

The government proposed no changes to Paragraph 1 of the Plea Agreement, which required the defendant to plead guilty to two misdemeanors. As shown in Exhibit 3, the government proposed changes to Paragraphs 14, 15 and 17 of the Diversion Agreement, and Paragraph 5(b) of the Plea Agreement. Motion at 13.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law requires that individuals “shall as soon as reasonably possible notify the prosecuting attorney, law enforcement, medical assistance, or other public officials.” Some states have moved to penalize those who do not call police.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

He was a deputy commissioner at the New York Police Department (NYPD) in the early 1990s, when violent crime rates began to plummet. More recently, as president of John Jay College at the City University of New York from 2004 to 2016, he helped to spread the focused-deterrence model across the country. Later, at the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

The New York Times column is ideal for those willing to “suspend disbelief” to watch this Ed Woods quality horror production. If there is an Ed Wood school of prosecution, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg could prove to be its most apt pupil. That, apparently, is left to the suspension of disbelief.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the release of the indictment against former President Donald Trump. Yes, the man who has routinely knocked down felony crimes to misdemeanors — or dismissals — actually suggested that he had no alternative but to charge Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We recently discussed how figures like New York Times columnist Tom Friedman calling on people to move to Georgia to rig the vote in favor of a Democratic takeover of the Senate. 2) A person convicted of the offense of criminal solicitation to commit election fraud in the second degree shall be punished as for a misdemeanor. (b)

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