SCOTUSBlog

MAY 7, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether defendants have standing to assert violations of an extradition treaty and whether the wire fraud statute applies extraterritorially to reach a defendant’s conduct committed only in Nigeria. United States. Guzman Loera v.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

APRIL 21, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, we saw that the number of cases calendared for a hearing at the Court of Appeals in the first 4 months since Rowan Wilson became New York's Chief Judge increased significantly. A 45% increase over the same 4 months the previous year.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

JULY 7, 2022

We've previously looked at the reduction in the caseload at New York's highest court. See The Incredible Shrinking Docket: The Court of Appeals' Reduced Caseload [The Graph].)

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

One of the threats faced by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the pending criminal assault allegation in the Albany Police Department. If proven, the allegation of the former staff members of being groped by Cuomo could meet the standard for criminal assault. The women could bring direct criminal complaint against Cuomo.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

I am less opposed to the bail as I am to the fact that New York officials cannot maintain a prison with a minimal level of security. ” Rikers has long been in the control of the inmates, particularly criminal gangs. New York officials have let this go on for decades with no accountability.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 20, 2024

It is difficult for courts to balance such elements. She was also arrested for simple assault after an incident at Concord Hospital. There are reports that Dula has been under treatment for mental illness, including possible bipolar illness. On the other hand, she just admitted to intentionally striking down an officer.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a press conference, US Attorney General Merrick Garland stated that regional justice departments in the Eastern District of New York and the District of New Jersey arrested two and charged 13 people allegedly acting on behalf of the PRC. Unaware these documents were fake, the defendants then sent them to the PRC company.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 29, 2024

Share Two weeks after the New York Times first reported that an upside-down American flag – popular among the “Stop the Steal” movement – flew outside the Virginia home of Justice Samuel Alito in the days following the Jan. 6 attacks and the scope of a federal criminal law under which Trump and other Jan.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

MAY 25, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the first 4 months of Rowan Wilson's tenure as New York's Chief Judge and saw a 45% increase in total appeals calendared over the corresponding period the previous year. In Part 2, we saw that the number of criminal appeals calendared had actually doubled.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The link between Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and criminal behavior is rarely acknowledged as a mitigating factor in U.S. jurisprudence , says a New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper. . According to the New York Law School study, racial minorities are more likely to have FAS. Race and FAS.

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JURIST

AUGUST 1, 2023

Criminal law-focused firms such as Silverman Thompson Slutkin & White, LLC and Tacopina, Siegel & Deoreo also received upwards of a million in legal fees from the PAC. While PACs have been around since the 1940s, they have proliferated since the US Supreme Court released Citizens United v.

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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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NewYorkCourtWatcher

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We previously looked at the increase in cases being heard at New York's highest court since Rowan Wilson was elevated to Chief Judge this past April and, more specifically, since he began producing the Court's calendars starting with this September's.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on yesterday’s oral arguments on presidential immunity. As expected, with the exception of the three liberal justices, the Court appears to be struggling to find a more nuanced approach that would avoid the extreme positions of both parties. Fitzgerald. Yet in 1974’s United States v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2023

I have previously written how New York has been the gift that keeps on giving for the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups. The latest is a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit striking down key provisions of the law passed after the Bruen decision. New York Democratic Gov.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I have previously written about how New York has proven time and time again as the gift that keeps on giving for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and gun-rights groups. New York Democrats continue to pass laws that are virtually guaranteed to be struck down and further reinforce Second Amendment rights.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 11, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that prior convictions for crimes of reckless violence aren’t sufficient to trigger additional years of imprisonment for felons convicted of gun possession, reports the Wall Street Journal. The New York Times reports that the case concerned Charles Borden Jr.,

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James has publicly released a statement that it is now pursuing a criminal rather than a purely civil investigation against the Trump Organization. Tax and fraud cases are easier to prosecute and more difficult to defend in court.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2024

But Bragg is betting on a New York jury looking no further than the identity of the defendant to convict. Even while in jail, Cohen was accused of lying to a court, in violation of an order for early release due to medical problems. This would be difficult even for a competent and ethical lawyer.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2023

Share The Supreme Court agreed to decide what protections Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides to employees who contend they were the victim of a discriminatory transfer. The question comes to the court in the case of Jatonya Muldrow, a sergeant with the St. I covered one of those cases, United States v. (I

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JonathanTurley

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. Ohio , 378 U.S.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 27, 2022

The list of civil cases includes the ongoing investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James into whether he falsely inflated the value of his assets in annual financial statements. Our 45 th president is no stranger to the courts. In a court filing in early March, the House Select Committee investigating the Jan.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Judge Ellen Biden of the New York County Supreme Court Thursday dismissed the convictions of Muhammad A. Aziz and the late Khalil Islam, two of the three men convicted of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Share Less than a week before the justices are scheduled to hear argument in a high-profile gun-rights case, the court added another dispute involving firearms to its docket for the 2023-24 term. The rule directed anyone who owned or possessed a bump stock to destroy them or drop them at a nearby ATF office to avoid facing criminal penalties.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 23, 2022

The latest example is a report in the New York Times that the Justice Department recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings, citing multiple sources connected to the investigation. The latest leak to to the New York Times offers details on what was gathered from Mar-a-Lago.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. Those words from Alice in Wonderland seem the only apt description of the case unfolding in the New York courtroom of Justice Arthur F. That may be a common practice in New York real estate, but it is not a good practice.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2024

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in the New York Post on the meltdown of Michael Cohen on the stand in the Manhattan trial of former President Donald Trump. It certainly now should be facing a directed verdict by the court. Indeed, with any other defendant, a New York jury would be giving a Bronx cheer in derision.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2024

Below is an expanded version of my New York Post column on the appearance of Michael Cohen Monday in the Manhattan prosecution of former President Donald Trump. Here is the column: Michael Cohen is to criminal justice what car crashes are to Nascar: few want to admit it, but he is the perverse draw for the wreck-obsessed.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 14, 2024

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in the New York Post on the first day of the examination of Michael Cohen. After lying to Congress, courts, banks, and most everyone else, it will be bad. He is expected to start his cross examination today. How bad will it be? ” Well, that bad.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has returned from its summer break and gotten down to business. The court agreed to review a dozen petitions from that conference. Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Where former President Donald Trump was roundly condemned for such testimony in court, Willis was celebrated by many as showing that she is a “great lawyer” and righteous champion. Now, Hunter Biden also seems to have gone full Trump in court and no one appears to have noticed.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Meng appeared virtually in a New York courtroom Friday and pleaded “not guilty” to US accusations of selling telecommunications equipment to Iran, violating US sanctions against the Middle-Eastern nation. The Canadian government at the time of Meng’s arrest gave deference to the courts in resolving the matter.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 28, 2021

Court documents also quote her as saying. “I In such a case, the full record, including the podcast, is likely to be before a judge during sentencing though the court will often follow the recommendations of prosecutors in a plea agreement. After they had her in custody, she is captured on body-worn camera saying “What did I do?”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The Texas Supreme Court has handed down a major ruling in defense of free speech this week. What was particularly chilling is that one appellate court agreed with the absurd argument that characterizing abortion as murder is an actionable basis for defamation as opposed to protected opinion. It did so in the Dobbs decision in 2022 ).

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah has pleaded not guilty in US federal court Friday to murdering three US soldiers In Afghanistan in 2008, according to Reuters. Najibullah entered the plea in a Manhattan federal court after the prosecutor unveiled the new charges last week.

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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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