JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2021

The sharp contrast in the two decisions raises serious questions over the legal and political issues that rage around such cases. The decisions reached in the shootings of Daunte Wright in Minnesota and Ashli Babbitt in Washington highlight concerns over the political and legal elements that can influence such decisions.

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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

JULY 13, 2022

We have been discussing the controversy over a ten-year-old girl who was raped in Ohio and removed to Indiana because the Ohio abortion law would not allegedly allow for the termination of her pregnancy. Both stated that the case could be real, but that there were glaring legal and factual questions raised by Dr. Bernard’s account.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 16, 2022

The Washington Post yesterday ran a column by MSNBC Legal Analyst and Georgetown Law Professor Paul Butler that argued that the incarceration of actor Jussie Smollett for 150 days is a miscarriage of justice fueled by racism. Special investigator Dan Webb shredded that claim, which has found a new life in the Washington Post.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Hearst Corporation. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, The George Washington University Law School. Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust, Microsoft Corporation. Eve Burton. Lynn Oberlander. Of Counsel, Ballard Spahr LLP. Mr. Jonathan Turley.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

As a result, most of eastern Oklahoma is now understood to be Indian country — a development that, according to the state, has disrupted the criminal justice system there. Castro-Huerta ’s legal issues are narrower than those in McGirt. federal enclaves).

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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. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2021

It stressed that this element requires a showing of “a bad purpose to disregard the law” and that “evidence that an officer acted out of fear, mistake, panic, misperception, negligence, or even poor judgment cannot establish the high level of intent.”. Will the Babbitt standard now apply. Reasonable people could disagree on the shooting.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns. Judge Polster pushed drug makers to settle before clearly establishing legal liability. Yet it leaves the matter far from resolved.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Per the usual, there was a lot more going on than we could possibly cover but we did manage to feature highlights from the best volunteers and minds in the legal profession. ABAMidYear @ABAesq @BarPresidents @LaurenceEsq pic.twitter.com/aKfxmEQMV1 — Legal Talk Network (@LegalTalkNet) January 25, 2019. hails from Butte, Montana.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 5, 2022

Senior Legal Advisor, U.S. Program, International Center for Not-For-Profit Law. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law; Director, Environmental Law Advocacy Center, The George Washington University Law School. Nick Robinson. Dr. Jacob R. Specialist on the Congress, Congressional Research Service.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2021

Finding those answers takes faith and fealty to the legal system that is based on fairness and due process. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Much remains unknown about this seemingly senseless killing. You can find his updates online @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2022

Jurors must draw a line between the tragically negligent and the criminally willful for periods as short as 90 seconds (the King video) and more than nine minutes (Floyd). The legal standards have remained the same, and the ultimate culpability rests with the jury. Follow him on Twitter: @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 12, 2021

There is both a legal and a political reason Chauvin is going to trial first: The “aiding and abetting” charges of the other officers are derivative on the Chauvin’s alleged crime of murder or manslaughter. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Washington (1945) and the requirement of “minimum contacts.” criminal law as “an extreme abuse,” China applies its criminal law extraterritorially on all the bases that the United States employs. law in significant ways. The report seems to recognize this, referring in its second paragraph to the U.S.

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JUNE 23, 2021

The paper’s author, Jacob Schuman , an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University School of Law, argues that the system of supervised release has become a “drug-control network focused on public safety” rather than rehabilitation. To put this into perspective, Schuman cites a study in Washington D.C. percent of the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2021

But Biden’s suggestion — that “instead of anybody coming at you and the first thing you do is shoot to kill, you shoot them in the leg” — is not exactly how it works, practically or legally. The key is the legal threshold for the use of lethal force. Having Biden shout from the sideline to “Shoot for the leg! Shoot for the leg!”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2020

I have tremendous respect for many on the other side of this debate including former Judge Michael Luttig, who just penned a thoughtful column in the Washington Post arguing against such self-pardons. ” The King of England was long held to “do no wrong” legally as a matter of immunity.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

At the time, I wrote that if someone sued over the resulting mayhem, Durkan and Seattle could find themselves clinging to the very legal doctrine they denounced in police brutality cases: immunity. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They did not have the luxury of reframing the legal standard to achieve their own concept of justice. acquitted Rittenhouse on all charges, politicians and media figures lashed out at the judge, the jury and the entire legal system. When Rittenhouse was allowed to go free, the entire legal system was denounced as racist.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2021

Those “others” could include a virtual who’s who of Washington politics, and even if they are not indicted, Durham could implicate some of the most powerful figures in politics in his final report, expected in the coming months. million paid to the campaign’s law firm. You can find his updates on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

Even Yost ( who is pro-life ) said that this abortion clearly fit within the exceptions and could be legally performed in Ohio. Yost, however, was equally curious about the absence of a criminal case. ” Even liberal newspapers like Washington Post could not get any new information from Dr. Bernard.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2024

I have long been a critic of the Bragg indictment as legally incomprehensible. It was not until the second week of proceedings that Bragg even revealed part of his theory of criminality. After all, the base charge is a simple misdemeanor under a New York law against falsifying business records. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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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

APRIL 7, 2024

Circuit Judge Reggie Walton recently caused a stir in Washington after doing an interview with CNN in which he rebuked former President Donald Trump for his criticism of judges and their family members.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 14, 2024

It is not even clear why paying one’s lawyer a lump sum for his services and costs (including the NDA payment) was not a “legal expense” or how it was supposed to be entered on a business ledger. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Days was a member of the Yale Law faculty for more than three decades and led the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Morrison & Foerster from 1997 to 2011. Even if she had never become a judge, Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have been a giant of the legal profession. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. March 15, 1933 – Sept. Darius Leander Swann.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 15, 2024

Judge Juan Merchan will now have to give the full measure of his commitment to the rule of law. Given the failure to support the elements of any crime or even to establish the falsity of recording payments as legal expenses, this trial seemed to stumble through the motions of a trial. and Michael Cohen.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

Here is the column: The disclosure of the Justice Department’s targeting of members of Congress and journalists with secret subpoenas has caused a firestorm in Washington. For full disclosure, I also advised Julian Assange’s legal team in England on our criminal justice system and protections for the free press under the Constitution.).

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

Trump faces serious legal threats in the ongoing Mar-a-Lago investigation. Although it may be politically popular, the case is legally pathetic. Last year, the Federal Election Commission fined the Clinton campaign for funding the Steele dossier as a legal expense. A Section 175 charge would normally be a misdemeanor.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2024

Here is the column: Chris Christie once said that Donald Trump is often portrayed by legal counsel as “the unluckiest S.O.B. While a recusal or removal of Willis may delay the case, it will not end the legal threat for Trump. in the world.”

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Smith then pushed hard for a pre-election trial in the January 6th case in Washington where he seemed to have a supportive judge in Judge Tanya Chutkan who shoehorned the start just before the Super Tuesday elections. Despite Smith’s pushing for a pre-election trial, his structuring of the charges undermined that schedule.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 21, 2022

Strzok’s colleague and former paramour, Lisa Page, was given a contract as a legal analyst with NBC and MSNBC ). On January 4, 2017, the FBI’s Washington Field Office issued a “Closing Communication” indicating that the bureau was terminating “CROSSFIRE RAZOR” — the newly disclosed codename for the investigation of Michael Flynn.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Here is the column: “Peril,” the new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, is the latest Washington Beltway bombshell account that can light up Washington, although sometimes those fizzle upon later review. Washington scandal books are a genre unto themselves. The bombshell in this book is the claim that Gen.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 29, 2023

While I have said that the sweeping indictment contains some serious allegations of criminal conduct against individual defendants, I have been critical of its broad scope and its implications for free speech in future challenges to election. Unsupported legal claims may be sanctionable in court, but they have not been treated as crimes.

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