JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2023

Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio charged Durant with a “federal misdemeanor charge under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, in Columbus, Ohio has sparked protests despite the police releasing a videotape that appeared to show Bryant moving to stab another girl. The incident has strikingly similar legal issues to the shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Opioid litigation has proceeded like a locomotive in part because of Judge Dan Aaron Polster, a federal jurist in Ohio who has been given control of some 2,000 federal cases from across the country under the multidistrict litigation system. The company and the Oklahoma justices are right on the law.

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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. He studies criminal law, criminal procedure, and sentencing.

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MAY 16, 2023

Although these justifications are often framed as “common sense,” they ignore the fact that both civil and criminal laws already protect such places. The framing of the issue that [cisgender] women’s safety and trans rights are mutually exclusive advances a false narrative for two big reasons.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 14, 2022

We previously discussed the shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, in Columbus, Ohio. Under Ohio law the use of deadly force by a police officer is justified when there exists an immediate or imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or another. Special Prosecutors H.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

This is the flip side to lethal-force cases such as last month’s shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant , 16, in Columbus, Ohio, in which Officer Nicholas Reardon used lethal force to stop the stabbing of another girl. For police officers, the city’s defense may seem as familiar as it is frustrating.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

Below is my column on the case of the ten-year-old rape victim who allegedly was taken to Indiana because an abortion was barred in Ohio. (A There remain, however, questions as to why the child had to leave Ohio, which has exceptions that would apply to the case. Yost, however, was equally curious about the absence of a criminal case.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2021

Here is the column: The shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, has produced a torrent of objections to how police respond to armed suspects. These and the prior cases capture the dangerously uncertain and chaotic context of such cases.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

155 Ohio App. Caponi (1969), 18 Ohio St. 2d 125, 47 Ohio Op. Caponi (1969), 18 Ohio St. 2d 125, 47 Ohio Op. Stanley (2001), 92 Ohio St.3d 3d 35, 39, 2001 Ohio 128, 748 N.E.2d Di Gildo at 127, citing 39 Ohio Jurisprudence 2d 512, Negligence, Section 21. Bennett, 92 Ohio St.3d Di Gildo v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2022

Northern District of Ohio. Shapiro Professor Of Public Interest Law. The George Washington University Law School. Fellow, Liberty And National Security Program, Brennan Center For Justice. Former Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Washington, D.C. Garnell Whitfield, Jr. Buffalo, NY. Former U.S. Cleveland, OH.

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JULY 7, 2021

Beginning in the mid-1980s and carrying into today, immigration law has become increasingly intertwined with criminal law, resulting in a growing number of deportations, writes University of Denver law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, in an Ohio State Legal Studies research paper.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 20, 2022

Ohio , the Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that even calling for violence is protected under the First Amendment unless there is a threat of “ imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”. Come on my Chinese folks, white graduating is open season for y’all.”. That is legitimately concerning and chilling language.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. Such a result would eviscerate the claim that Trump was guilty of criminal incitement in his speech. Trump’s Jan. 6 speech would not satisfy the test in Brandenburg v.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Headquarters: Twinsburg, Ohio. Elevator pitch: Affordable cybersecurity solutions are lacking and 29% of law firms have suffered a security breach. If a client needs help with a small business, family law, criminal law or any legal matter, no problem, Lawmato helps clients find you quickly and easily.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2023

Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and said the dossier “hasn’t been discredited, in fact, it has been opposite, it has been corroborated.” On CNN, one of the guests insisted, “I think we actually have to stop calling it the ‘infamous dossier’ and increasingly calling it ‘accurate dossier,’ the ‘damning dossier.’”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

Such a criminal law would be ripe for abuse and would create a chilling effect that would be positively glacial. We have seen other Democratic leaders use the criminal process in similarly reckless fashions. The Inslee law would create a new and vague category for violent speech. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

Ohio , the Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that even calling for violence is protected under the First Amendment unless there is a threat of “ imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”. I know of no case where a speech of this kind was treated as sufficient to establish attempted murder. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2024

Ohio, 378 U.S. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. Major media figures have actively erased the distinction between advocates and journalists. 184 (1964): “I shall not today attempt further to define [it]…But I know it when I see it.” Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many criminal laws that do criminalize speech, and so the notion that the president of the United States somehow has a First Amendment right to be protected by the government for his speech doesn’t make any sense. .” You can’t – you know, you can’t use hate speech.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2022

However, I know of no case that would impose this affirmative duty on Tribe as a criminal legal matter. Ohio , the Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that even calling for violence is protected under the First Amendment unless there is a threat of “ imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Ohio , where the Supreme Court said even “advocacy of the use of force or of law violation” is protected unless it is imminent. I do not fault experts for speculating about such a case — but many are claiming, again, that prosecution would be relatively easy. That simply is not true. The problem is free speech. Trump’s Jan.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Ohio which are ultimately First Amendment cases. Ohio are used to determine if speech is criminal incitement or protected speech. The senators must weigh if Trump’s language on Jan. 6 th constitutes actual incitement to insurrection. The use of incitement as the basis for impeachment necessarily raises how incitement is defined.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2022

The court is not simply saying that they are wrong in that view but, because they are wrong, legislative challenges amounted to criminal obstruction of Congress. In 2005, it was Democrats who alleged that a presidential election was stolen and challenged the certification in Congress of the votes in Ohio. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

The court is not simply saying that they are wrong in that view but, because they are wrong, legislative challenges amounted to criminal obstruction of Congress. In 2005, it was Democrats who alleged that a presidential election was stolen and challenged the certification in Congress of the votes in Ohio.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Yet, more than a month have gone by without word of an interview for Trump, let alone a charge, on criminal incitement. The reason is that while the crime is not clear, the case law is. In Brandenburg v.

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Then, in the 70s, the feminist movement joined in when they started to bring attention to the lack of enforcement of sexual assault laws and demanding their expansion. Ohio , that those protections were actually limitations on state power as well. It was the Warren Court that changed that and ruled, in the 1961 case Mapp v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The House managers cited a letter from law professors declaring the argument “frivolous” even though some of those professors believe Trump’s speech may indeed be protected under cases like Brandenburg versus Ohio.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

.” Imagine what would happen to free speech in the United States if people could be sued for their “suggestive words and encouragement” for third parties who later violate the law. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2021

My problem with this criminal case is not the timing of an indictment but the basis for the indictment. As I wrote earlier , the governing legal standard for violent speech is found in Brandenburg v. As a free speech advocate, I have long criticized that 1969 case and what I consider its dangerously vague standard.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

It was the criminal theory itself that seemed crafted around the standard for obscenity famously described by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the case of Jacobellis v. Ohio , 378 U.S. 184 (1964): “I shall not today attempt further to define [it] … But I know it when I see it.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 22, 2021

Ohio , the Court could not even agree on a clear reason why a porn film was not so obscene as to allow prosecution. The Miller standard has long been criticized by legal scholars, including myself, as hopelessly and dangerously vague. The Court has been mocked for its ham-handed efforts to define pornography.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

challenged the certification of Ohio’s electoral votes in 2004 , no one suggested criminal investigations. Nessel is threatening state legislators that, if they meet to discuss such objections, they might be targets of criminal investigations. However, when Democrats like Sen. Barbara Boxer (D.,

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who have already been told to preserve their phone records to be surrendered to the committee. With those words , House Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) confirmed that a subpoena storm was about to be unleashed in the investigation of the Jan. 6 riot in Congress.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Ohio , the Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that even calling for violence is protected under the First Amendment unless there is a threat of “ imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.” At 4:17 p.m., Trump made his statement to stop — roughly an hour and a half later. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

6 speech for criminal charges. That speech is entirely protected under the First Amendment and governing case law, including Brandenburg v. That would certainly be the likely criticism again if Smith relies on Trump’s Jan. Any count based on Trump’s speech would likely be overturned on appeal.

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