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The Odor of Mendacity: 2024 Could Turn on Smell of Selective Prosecution from Georgia to New York

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the Hill on the recent decision in Georgia and the “odor of mendacity” raising out of various courtrooms across the country. District Attorney Fani Willis had described Wade as “ a Southern gentleman. It is the smell of not just selective prosecution but political bias in our legal system.

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Georgia Prosecutors Should Go, But That Won’t Necessarily End the Case Against Trump

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Messenger on the unfolding Fani Willis scandal in Georgia. The Georgia courts have established that a district attorney should be disqualified when there is a personal interest in the defendant’s conviction ( Whitworth v. Wade also has been held in contempt in his messy divorce. State , 275 Ga.

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“Oh Georgia, No Peace I Find”: The Fourth Indictment of Donald Trump and the Criminalization of Election Controversies

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Messenger on the Georgia indictment. Indeed, every call, speech, and tweet appears a criminal step in the conspiracy. District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone and let God sort them out. However, it will be anything but costless.

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Fani Willis Fights for a Mass Trial As the Georgia Defendants Scatter

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Messenger on the early struggle of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to preserve her strategy of holding a mass 19-person trial over the 2020 election case involving former president Donald Trump. The hearing on the removal gave a glimpse into the case. In Washington, U.S.

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Most U.S. Prosecutors ‘Routinely’ Support Harsh Punishments: Study

The Crime Report

District attorneys around the country are deeply involved in lobbying for tough criminal justice legislation, but the minority of prosecutors who push for reform measures exert a powerful influence on state legislators, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Law School. and do not make?the

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Spring Break: Christie’s Prediction of a Trump Conviction by Spring Just Hit a Snag

JonathanTurley

The interviews could magnify the difficulties for both Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Counsel Jack Smith in their respective prosecutions. In Georgia, a slew of former lawyers are taking pleas with promises to testify if called. Again, the deal avoided jail time and allowed him to keep his law license.

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Smith’s Sirens: Can Trump Be Convicted for the Lure of Bad Lawyering?

JonathanTurley

However, Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Fulton County District Attorney appear to be arguing that, while Trump was assured of these claims by counsel, he should never have listened to them. It is a type of “Siren’s Call” theory of criminality. What is novel is the criminal “Siren’s call” theory of these cases.

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