JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

From the prosecution of Bill Cosby to a federal lawsuit against Georgia, courts are dealing with cases where government lawyers repeat the same implausible claims with the same unconvincing results. Dunne’s statement was made after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. The Georgia lawsuit. The Cosby ruling.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2021

Law has become a recreation and legal analysts have become part of the legal entertainment. Within minutes of the leaking of a call between Trump and Georgia election officials, the same experts were declaring yet another clear crime. Georgia is a one party consent state).

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

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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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Below is a slightly expanded version of my column on Fox.com on the hearing in Georgia over allegations of improper conduct by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. ” The fact that the question clearly asked about any sexual relationship up to May 30, 2023 did not matter to the lead prosecutor in the Georgia election case.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Here is the column: Last week , some of us were struck by how Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis seemed to morph into the man she is prosecuting in Georgia. ” He argues that DOJ regulations instruct the attorney general to appoint a special counsel from outside the government, but Weiss was working as U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2022

” It was not illegal to push for the appointment of a more favorable attorney general though I believe such a letter would have been fundamentally wrong.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

The scene from the 1931 movie “Frankenstein” came to mind this week as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg prepared an indictment of former President Donald Trump. Bragg is attempting something that many lawyers think is as improbable as the reanimation of the dead. Here is the column: “It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 21, 2022

There were discussions of appointing Trump attorney Sidney Powell as a special counsel , seizing voting machines or replacing the Justice Department’s leadership. White House strategy sessions became increasingly heated between Trump’s two teams of lawyers, including a breathtaking Dec.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2023

Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Here is the column: The Department of Justice’s special counsel, Jack Smith, is continuing his work toward possible criminal charges against former President Donald Trump. district attorney election last year. The decision follows a pattern of DOJ refusing to charge its own.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Moreover, the new Attorney General could scuttle or undermine the prosecution. That would still leave the New York and Georgia cases, which are not subject to presidential pardons. If Trump is elected, he could give himself a preemptive self-pardon , though some disagree with this view.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2022

On CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront, ” Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe declared that Trump can now be charged with the attempted murder of former Vice President Mike Pence “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” Those are plenty to start with.”. Seditious conspiracy. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.)

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2020

to seek the disbarment of roughly a dozen Trump and Republican lawyers for challenging election results. Indeed, during the impeachment trial of President Trump, North Carolina Law Professor Michael Gerhardt predicted that the entire Trump legal team would be disbarred after their representation of the President. YouTube Screenshot.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The public statements of Trump alone would not make for a credible case for criminal incitement under the controlling case law. Nevertheless, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine garnered widespread acclaim by announcing soon after the Jan. There were a variety of lawyers present, not some backroom arm twisting.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. Boynton went on to spend his career as a civil rights lawyer (even though his home state of Alabama refused to give him a law license for six years because of his involvement in the Supreme Court case). Bernard Sol Cohen.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the Georgia trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, Judge Timothy Walmsley delivered a haymaker to the defense on the very eve of closing statements. The court ruled that Georgia’s prior citizen’s arrest law is only applicable if a person sees a felony committed and acts without delay. Here is the prior law: O.C.G.A.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

In a rally in Georgia, Trump declared : “They’ve launched one witch hunt after another to try and stop our movement, to thwart the will of the American people. Earlier, Smith reportedly compelled the appearance of Trump lawyers before the grand jury. Below is the column in the Messenger on the Trump indictment.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

This would be the third criminal indictment of Trump and there may still be a fourth coming in Georgia. Smith has a reputation in conservative circles for stretching the criminal code in high-profile cases, including the prosecution of then-Virginia Gov. However, relying on bad advice or bad law is not a crime.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Two of the cases involve criminal law, and one is a capital case. The third case involves a fairly arcane issue of pleading claims under federal pension law. The Georgia Supreme Court concluded that the shackles had little effect on the jury in light of the evidence of Whatley’s dangerousness, and the U.S.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). The 2017 cases include a Georgia company that is likely to conclude that no good deed goes unpunished. This is going to make this year’s dinner.

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