At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Supreme Court is its “shadow docket,” where cases — sometimes consequential cases — are decided without full briefing or oral argument. The subject has gotten substantial attention of late, both inside and outside the Court. (See, See, e.g., Adam Liptak in the New York Times here ; Whole Woman’s Health v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

A common misconception, perpetuated by popular television shows and movies, as well as the Sixth Amendment, is that everyone gets their day in court. But they were still frog-marched into a plea bargain by their defense attorney or the prosecutor or the judge or some combination thereof. The courts are not for landless laborers.

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JULY 6, 2017

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. The court therefore found that the stay was unauthorized and vacated it.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Among the city’s five district attorneys, this rate ranged from a high of 23 percent in Manhattan to just 1 percent in the Bronx, where just a single hate crime arrest out of a total of 92 resulted in a hate crime conviction since District Attorney Darcel Clark took control of the office in 2016.

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The Crime Report

MAY 14, 2021

Unlike the majority of criminal defendants who are mostly poor people of color, Chauvin was represented by over a dozen highly trained attorneys that carried a bill well over a million dollars. The attorney, Robert Michael Thomas, wrote me back and said that he would try to help me. Supreme Court in the landmark case Gideon v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2023

This article was originally published on May 24 5:02am EDT by THE CITY When 22-year-old Aaron Narraph Fernando was selected as a grand jury foreman at the Queens Criminal Supreme Court in January, he was given a state court–issued handbook that detailed the work of the 23-member civilian voting body. It’s irregular. It’s improper.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 30, 2021

Troy Singleton, one of the bill’s primary sponsors, cited the “staggering amount of data on the national level that shows securing housing is one of the key barriers to reducing recidivism,” according to the New York Times. See the New York profile for more details. New Jersey.

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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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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2024

On Wednesday, Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court ruled that six of the charges should be dropped for a “lack of detail concerning an essential legal element,” an oversight the judge described as “fatal.” Kimbrough, 300 Ga.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2022

Newly elected District Attorney for Manhattan, Alvin L. The fourth principle seeks to limit youth involvement in adult court. DA Bragg, who is the first Black District Attorney of Manhattan, won a tightly contested Democratic primary in July of 2021.

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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. It is not simply that the district attorney ran on a pledge to indict this defendant.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Supreme Court. On October 2, the district court granted the companies’ motion to temporarily extend its stay of the remand order until the Supreme Court resolves the application.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 13, 2023

On Wednesday former president Donald Trump sued his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen for more than $500 million in a federal court in Miami. One of the things that Trump has always loved most about litigation is his ability to use the courts and the rule of law as a cudgel against his enemies. As James D.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2022

A Supreme Court decision Thursday upending a century-old New York State gun licensing restriction has been called a major blow to state gun control interventions across the country. The Court released its opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association (NYSRPA) v. New York Gov.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

It is becoming harder to deny the existence of a two-track system of justice in the country as commentators and even a few courts raise concerns over the role of politics in prosecutions. District Attorney Fani Willis had described Wade as “ a Southern gentleman. District Court Judge Cormac J. Fulton County, Ga.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2024

.” The filing (below) shows how Hunter’s claims (repeated by many in the media) collapse under even cursory review in court. Weiss’s filing bulldozes through arguments of selective prosecution and political influence in the case. ” The rest of the filing is equally devastating. Motion at 13.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

The case is being prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for DC and the DOJ National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. The defendants allegedly coordinated, planned to, and traveled to the Capitol on January 6 and brought weapons. Seditious conspiracy can result in a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Hausman , a former immigrants’ rights attorney and a current postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, asserts leaving this blanket principle unexamined creates unintended and harmful consequences. disrupts families and turns immigration services into a vehicle for crime control. citizens — at a difference of 11 percent.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In a 2022 interview, Harpster defended his program and noted that he has also helped defense attorneys argue for suspects’ innocence. While there is no index that lists cases in which bloodstain-pattern analysis played a role, state appellate court rulings show that the technique has played a factor in felony cases across the country.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Most Americans rightly focus on important decisions made by the Supreme Court when they think about the federal judiciary. But President Joe Biden’s first year in office has offered an important reminder that who is appointed to circuit and district courts has a huge impact on the lives of Americans. Diane Becton.

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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.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. The court dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 107.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The troubles of more well-known figures like George Gascón in Los Angeles, Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, or Alvin Bragg in New York have made headlines. Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton is among a small group of district attorneys working to dial back decades of tough-on-crime approaches.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 31, 2023

We do know from reading the New York Times that the indictment contains 34 separate charges or “counts” including multiple felonies, which likely will involve some kind of tax violation or federal campaign crimes. This indictment has been a long time coming. It is un-American.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 3, 2022

A feud between two of Texas’ most prominent justice reformers—Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg and Judge Lina Hidalgo—has exploded into a bitter court case. They called for an “unbiased attorney” to be appointed to take her place. Harris County DA Kim Ogg.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2023

The prosecutor drones on; the judge sighs and shuffles his papers; a court officer looks significantly at his watch. Still, I do have a vivid “ flashbulb memory ” of watching a defendant in Boston’s Superior Court, brought before a judge who was visiting from the western part of the state. Otherwise, the effect is soporific.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 27, 2022

The list of civil cases includes the ongoing investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James into whether he falsely inflated the value of his assets in annual financial statements. Our 45 th president is no stranger to the courts. On Monday, Judge Arthur F. to sit for depositions. Eastman v Bennie G.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The New York Democrat was in front of the door without staffers and allegedly confused by the signs on it… So, he pulled a clearly marked fire alarm because he thought that that is how you open a door. .” If it were intended to disrupt the congressional proceedings, it could be treated as a felony. It could be a crime.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on how the Justice Department took five years to “resolve” the long-standing problem with Hunter Biden. They even threw in a phantom felony allegation that will evaporate once Hunter completes a diversion program. After all, the 4-year-old just got her clock cleaned in court.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

The defense could come at a cost at trial, but it is a calculated risk for the court of public opinion. The odds are against Trump on ultimately prevailing with that argument in the courts. The bravado defense is likely to play better with the public than a court. Trump repeated that defense this week.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 7, 2022

These questions are likely to grow if the court overturns the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell due to what appears to be exceptionally serious allegations of juror misconduct. Epstein pleaded guilty to Florida charges of felony solicitation of underage girls in 2008 and served a 13-month jail sentence. Nevertheless, former U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 8, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the recent rebuke of the Justice Department by a federal judge in a hearing on the refusal to comply with House subpoenas in the Biden corruption investigation. Those are four words that no lawyer wants to hear from a judge in a hearing. He answered no. The DOJ was in a bizarre position.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We recently discussed how figures like New York Times columnist Tom Friedman calling on people to move to Georgia to rig the vote in favor of a Democratic takeover of the Senate. It did not seem to matter to either the newspaper or Friedman that he was encouraging the commission of a felony. Yet, Friedman is not a lawyer.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2023

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in USA Today on the expected indictment of former President Donald Trump and the prospect of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg putting Michael Cohen on the stand as his star witness. Michael Cohen worked for Trump The star witness is one of the most repellent figures in New York.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial today in New York. This week, New York judges and lawyers appear eager to prove that the same is true for cases against Donald Trump. However, this is a Pyrrhic victory for the New York legal system. It is hard to miss.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 21, 2023

Since then, numerous New York City sources have beefed up city security to address calls for protest made by the former president and his supporters. There has been no official news on the determination of the grand jury in the Manhattan DA’s investigation yet. Joyce Alene White Vance, former U.S.

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