JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial today in New York. Here is the column: The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.” However, this is a Pyrrhic victory for the New York legal system. Dunne and Mark F.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

“Is Encouraging Unauthorized Immigration Free Speech or a Felony? The Supreme Court will decide whether a 1986 law that makes it a crime to urge people to stay in the United States unlawfully can be squared with the First Amendment.” The post “Is Encouraging Unauthorized Immigration Free Speech or a Felony?

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JANUARY 21, 2022

New York is moving to end a requirement that law school graduates report past arrests and police interactions short of convictions in order to become practicing attorneys, following a new report finding that excessive screening discourages people of color from applying to law school and the bar, reports Bloomberg News.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

District Judge David Counts has ruled that a federal law barring people under felony indictment from purchasing guns is unconstitutional, reports the Washington Post. Counts argued that the law’s prohibitions clashed with the high court’s June decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Trump reposted a supporter’s “fantasy” of executing a citizen’s arrest of Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James. ” The right still exists for any felonies (or certain misdemeanors committed in the presence of the citizen). I have also criticized this New York law.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

New York Gov. The proposal is part of a ten-point plan offered by Hochul to state legislative leaders in early March 2020 that also included expanding a law that allows judges to order mental-health treatment and making it easier to prosecute some gun-related offenses.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

Hur described four decades of Biden serially violating laws governing classified documents. In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

NBCUniversal , the justices once again turned down, with a concurring opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, a request to reconsider the court’s 1964 decision in New York Times v. Blankenship filed a defamation lawsuit in federal court, accusing news organizations and journalists who covered his Senate campaign of defamation.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Repeat offenders have “taken advantage” of the sweeping criminal justice reforms enacted in New York State in 2020, writes New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell in an op-ed in the New York Daily News. In addition, she says over 500 individuals had open felony cases upon arrest.

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APRIL 6, 2022

New York State would allow judges to set bail for a greater number of offenses and make it easier to hold repeat offenders pending trial as part of a larger state budget agreement expected to be passed this week, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Share This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. The authors are public defenders in New York City. His sentence was one year on Rikers Island — a “good deal” for simple firearm possession in New York City. A preview of the case is here.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Limits Sweep of Law on Mandatory Minimum Sentences; Violent felonies committed recklessly do not count in deciding whether 15-year terms are required under the Armed Career Criminal Act, the justices ruled”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” Jordan S. .”

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The California law makes it a felony to manufacture, distribute, import, keep for sale or lend assault weapons. Benitez found that Califonia’s “extreme policy” violates the Second Amendment because it does not pass the test used in the 2022 Supreme Court case New York Rifle & Pistol Assn.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Foehner has been charged with seven felony counts under state law and one misdemeanor under New York City administrative law. His top charge is for felony possession of a weapon in the first degree , under a specific portion of New York State law addressing the possession of ten or more firearms.

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2024

Attorney Carla Freedman for the Northern District of New York stated, “ The federal felony conviction [Dai] sustains today underscores that those who break the law by making violent threats will be found and prosecuted, even if they attempt to hide by posting anonymously.” In a press release , U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2024

After the first week of testimony, the trial of Donald Trump is increasingly looking like a mad prosecution machine by lawyers who don’t take law too seriously. After all, the base charge is a simple misdemeanor under a New York law against falsifying business records. It was so implausible as to be impossible.

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LegalReader

MAY 2, 2022

Felony DWI charges can be brought against motorists who cause injuries or death while they are intoxicated.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 15, 2022

There are 36 licensed professions in New York State but massage therapy is singled out as the only one where licensure is enforced by local law enforcement rather than an industry-specific board. Members of law enforcement had sexually assaulted Song and threatened her with deportation during a previous sting.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

A “second chance law” in Indiana expunges criminal records after five to eight years. Meanwhile, New York City is poised to join three other cities in outlawing criminal background checks for residents seeking public housing. The city would join New Jersey, Seattle and San Francisco.

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The Crime Report

JULY 15, 2022

Jagger Freeman has been convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years to life in prison because of New York’s felony murder law, a legal concept that broadens the crime of murder to include those who set into motion a series of events that lead to a person’s death, regardless of their intent, The Gothamist reports.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Felony drug distribution carried a maximum sentence of 30 years and a fine up to $500,000 when I practiced as a prosecutor in DC. I saw this happen regularly throughout my 12 years as a prosecutor: a law passed under one stated objective is in practice applied differently, and harmfully—especially for Black and brown people.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Public defenders in New York City have accused Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD of improperly using sealed criminal court records to manipulate public perception of bail reform’s impact on repeat crime, Matt Katz reports for the Gothamist. At the center of the controversy?

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The Crime Report

MARCH 7, 2022

More than 60 crimes fall under the hate crime statute in New York, from simple menacing to possession of a biological weapon. The state data shows that the more serious felony arrests for hate crimes yielded felony convictions — whether as a hate crime or not — in 19 percent of the cases closed citywide between 2015 and 2020.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A New York woman, Sarah Espinosa, 22, has been arrested for a rather odd offense after crashing her car while under the influence. Reckless endangerment in the first degree is a class D felony. Notably, this is a misdemeanor as opposed to the second endangerment provision that can be a felony. Reckless driving.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

The killings of police officers in jurisdictions as different as New York City and Utah over the past weekend have underlined a spike in line of duty death for cops facing armed suspects during what were expected to be “routine” calls.

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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. felonies fell by 15 percent?helped violent felonies per million rides, it was still 3.1

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Last year, Tennessee and Kentucky were among a group of more than 20 states that enacted laws that prohibit giving transgender youths under the age of 18 medical treatment to align their appearance with their gender identity. Federal district courts in both states granted the challengers’ requests to block the laws from going into effect.

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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. There will be no dead felony zapped back into life against Cohen, as it was for Trump. While most members wait to take office to commit felonies, Rep.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

The researchers noted that even in states where reforms have registered some success–such as New York and California—reduction in community supervision populations has not substantially altered the implicit bias of a system that disproportionately affects poor people of color. New York City Considers Abolition.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

The seditious conspiracy indictment alleges that Rhodes and his co-defendants conspired to forcefully oppose the execution of laws governing the transfer of presidential power from former President Trump to President Biden on January 20, 2021.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 2, 2021

West Hazleton, Pennsylvania Police Chief Brian Buglio has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation after making threats in March 2020 to a private citizen, telling the person that he would pursue false felony charges in retaliation for several social media posts that were directed at him and the police, reports the New York Times.

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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. It is not treated under federal law as a political contribution to yourself. As with James, Bragg saw it in Trump.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Yet at the press conference and Q & A following the arraignment District Attorney Alvin Bragg told the world that the 34 felony charges brought against defendant Trump were nothing more than the Manhattan office engaging in its everyday prosecution of “bread and butter” white-collar crimes. It all depends on the decision of the D.C.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

People who run summer camps included in the new sensitive location definitions wonder if popular riflery courses for children are now a crime. It will be a felony to have a gun at sports venues. states, and home to 130,000 people, is also included under the new law.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“Supreme Court Weighs Reviving Biden Immigration Guidelines; The justices wrestled with questions about states’ standing to sue, whether the guidelines were lawful and the limits of judicial power over immigration”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Downey now faces multiple federal charges, included the illegal possession of firearms and fraudulent badges, identification cards and other insignia strictly authorized for law enforcement persona, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in the U.S Southern District Court in New York.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Under current laws, noncitizens convicted of serious crimes are deported. In a forthcoming paper published in the Georgetown Law Journal, David K. In a forthcoming paper published in the Georgetown Law Journal, David K. disrupts families and turns immigration services into a vehicle for crime control.

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