JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. It was not Trump who listed payments as legal expenses or retainer payments.

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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. But what is that second crime?

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2024

Now, the Biden administration has arrested Baker on four misdemeanor charges linked to his entry into the Capitol on that day. former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, reaffirmed this shift. Before Baker’s arrest, Washington media was already facing criticisms over double standards.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 8, 2024

Bragg has refused to clearly define the crime that Trump was seeking to conceal when payments for a non-disclosure agreement were listed as a legal expense. Bragg then indicted Trump without clearly defining any crime — a debate that continues among legal experts after two weeks of testimony. But I know it when I see it.”

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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. Trump faces serious legal threats in the ongoing Mar-a-Lago investigation. Although it may be politically popular, the case is legally pathetic.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2021

One of those charged was Javon Washington, 30, faces an array of charges due to his role in playing music and encouraging defiance to the police. There were clearly legitimate arrests on that night as individuals destroyed property and assaulted police. However, Washington’s charges seemed based on his playing music at the scene.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

While the actual charges will not be disclosed until the release of the indictment, the underlying theory discussed for months is an effort to revive a dead misdemeanor offense of falsifying business records — years after the statute of limitations expired. They largely ignore that the misdemeanor is expired.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee called for the criminalization of “lies” about election results. Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections. What does that even mean?

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

All of the three main players — Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Special Counsel Jack Smith — will face immediate challenges in the legal arms race unfolding in Washington. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2024

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. Merchan has allowed the government to bring back into life a dead misdemeanor and convert it into 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

It is an effort to reanimate a long dead legal claim against Trump, but could reanimate his presidential campaign. He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

Donald Trump remains Bragg’s political manifest destiny even if there is no legal landfall in sight. 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. So Bragg continues to stare at the map to find his Kailasa.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2023

The only crime that has been discussed in this case is an unprecedented attempt to revive a misdemeanor for falsifying business documents that expired years ago. He cannot be the defender of the rule of law if he is using the legal process for political purposes. Bragg had a choice to make. He is a Fox News contributor.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It was an act of legal self-immolation as the president’s son engaged in flagrant contempt of Congress, a federal crime. Stranger still was that behind Hunter was standing his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, who watched as his client effectively begged to be criminally charged. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) That was Eric Swalwell. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. Some states have moved to penalize those who do not call police. Bigan , 397 Pa. 316, 155 A.2d

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The Democratic nominee was exposed recently by the Washington Post in streaming sex acts on a site called Chaturbate for money. Indeed, the site shows a long-standing anomaly in our criminal law. It would be illegal for Gibson to offer sex for money on the street under our prostitution laws.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2023

They also would have to deal with a charge brought seven years after the alleged offense, despite a two-year statute of limitations for the underlying misdemeanors (or a five-year period for a felony). It is only the latest reinvention of Michael Cohen – this time from legal heavy to redemptive sinner.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. He will declare himself guilty so the media and the political establishment can declare the scandal to be a closed matter: Nothing more to see here, other than a plea to a couple misdemeanors.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Powell pleaded to misdemeanors for a deal that avoids jail time and preserves her ability to resume the practice of law. Powell’s statement will also present challenges to Special Counsel Jack Smith who has a parallel case in Washington, D.C. Jamie Raskin (D-Md).

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One issue to watch is how Judge Bruce Schroeder handles the gun count, which is based on what I believe is a flawed legal interpretation by the prosecution. Here is the column: The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse increasingly seems like a legal version of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. One man – not society – is on trial.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Trump’s legal team’s belated request for a special master could help bring greater clarity to the raid’s scope and seizures. Yet it will not likely alter the trajectory of the case, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) has repeatedly stressed is an “active criminal investigation.”. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2023

2 of the discovery as it was closing out a Washington office, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, that Biden used as part of his relationship with the University of Pennsylvania after he left the vice presidency in 2017. The White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives on Nov.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

Given Bragg’s failure to even state the key offense allowing him to bring these 34 felonies, Merchan should have scheduled a hearing on the threshold legal questions in two weeks — not schedule all motions to be heard in December. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at The George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2023

While there are ambiguities around the meaning of this policy, many legal observers read this rule as kicking in 90 days before an election. However, criminal defendants routinely waive the right to a speedy trial because it does not allow them to fully prepare for trial. The Trump team would be legally insane not to waive.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Prosecutors also have faced policy and legal changes on decriminalization , parole opposition and other law-enforcement limitations. In some cities, like San Francisco, police largely stopped responding to shoplifting calls after state law was changed to make the theft of merchandise worth $950 or less just a misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

Legally, the underlying potential offense of unlawfully possessing classified material is the same, though there are obvious differences in the two cases. ” Washington is in full spin control with pundits who previously said that even a misdemeanor conviction of Trump should bar him from ever running again for federal office.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. Newsom previously asked the U.S. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

Even CNN legal analysts are now calling the handling of the investigation at the Justice Department an “ unholy mess.” He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge despite massive unpaid taxes, gun violations, and work as an unregistered foreign agent, among other alleged crimes.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2023

While Attorney General Merrick Garland has again refused to appoint a special counsel, any acknowledgment of Biden’s knowledge or interaction with the documents could have serious legal ramifications. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here is the column: It seems the subject of Donald Trump , like necessity, is the mother of invention, at least when it comes to legal analysis. From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

While legal eagles will be analyzing every move, what citizens really need is an Philadelphia Eagles fan to understand what is unfolding. That point was reached this season when Pederson decided not to tie the game against Washington in the third quarter with a field goal and instead put Nate Sudfeld in the game over Jalen Hurts.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2023

Yet enough similarities exist that Justice could weigh charges in both cases, even if only misdemeanors. For example, Georgia’s Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, is investigating Trump over the 2020 election; the case has some major evidentiary and legal issues to overcome in any trial — but Trump could well be indicted.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance. faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. Normally, criminal actions will cut off legal causation, though not always.

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