Criminal Law Government Misdemeanor Statute 
JonathanTurley
MAY 28, 2024
Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. The jury will be reminded that the burden is on the government, not the defense. However, the presumption of innocence is often hard to discern in criminal cases.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 2, 2023
The former FBI director, who has been teaching and speaking on government ethics, joined others in celebrating the upcoming arrest of Trump because nothing says “ethical leadership” like a patently political prosecution. They largely ignore that the misdemeanor is expired. Comey hopped on Twitter to declare, “It’s been a good day.”
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JonathanTurley
MAY 24, 2024
Below is my column on Fox.com on the closure of the government and defense cases in the Trump trial. Now it will be up to 12 New Yorkers to do what neither the court nor the prosecutors were willing to do: adhere to the rule of law regardless of the identity of the defendant.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. It is also hard to instruct a jury on an ambiguous statute.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 24, 2024
This law states “Any two or more persons who conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means and which conspiracy is acted upon by one or more of the parties thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” It is not even clear how this matter was supposed to be noted in records.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 21, 2023
He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations. A fifth of Americans now view the government as the greatest threat facing the nation.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
The DOJ also said it “has developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”. A criminal charge of obstruction against Trump would offer certain political benefits for Garland.
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