The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

The harm reduction organization Eleyvst , the Pennsylvania Recovery Organizations Alliance (PRO-A) , and the data firm RIWI sought to do just that with their new, ambitious public opinion survey. And yet, stigmatizing those who use drugs persists, even as our governments declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency.

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JUNE 30, 2021

Bill Cosby is a free man after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction that sent him to jail roughly three years ago to serve 3-10 years for sexual assault. Kevin Steele, the Montgomery County district attorney who convicted Cosby, issued a statement that was embarrassing in its evasion of responsibility. million.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

YouTube The Berks County District Attorney’s Office has confirmed that it is dropping charges against Damon Atkins after the preacher was arrested citing the Bible in protest of an LGBTQ Pride event in Reading, Pennsylvania.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The recent rape of a woman on a train in Pennsylvania has shocked and disgusted the nation, particularly after passengers did nothing to help the woman as she was allegedly attacked by Fiston Ngoy, 35. Now police are reportedly considering criminal charges against passengers who filmed the rape and did not call the police.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Ads for a candidate in Pennsylvania used the “Let’s Go Brandon” language generally acknowledged to be an allusion to a profanity directed at President Biden (see article here ). At that time, the FCC indicated that broadcasters need not run an ad that would violate a Federal criminal law (in that case, obscenity laws).

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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

Dunne’s statement was made after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and New York Attorney General Letitia James paraded triumphantly in front of hundreds of cameras with a handcuffed Weisselberg in their wake. In Pennsylvania, another prosecutor insisted that politics had nothing to do with a case. The Cosby ruling.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Here is the column: This month, the sudden appearance of Special Counsel Robert Hur caused as much of a stir as Bigfoot suddenly appearing on Pennsylvania Avenue. In his press conference announcing the criminal charges against Trump, Smith declared, “We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone….Nothing

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2022

Cheney called out Pennsylvania Republican Rep. ” 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. .” There is an interesting initial battle brewing over an accusation made by Rep. 6, 2021 riot.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2023

With the reported discovery of a second batch of highly classified documents connected to President Biden, the decisions of Attorney General Merrick Garland are fast moving from the inexplicable to incomprehensible. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2023

The discovery (and later addition of a second batch of classified material at a second location) is magnifying the inherently conflicted position of Attorney General Merrick Garland. Attorney John Lausch for investigation. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at The George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2023

In order to appoint a special counsel, the Attorney General had to find “ that criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted.” Moreover, Biden had an office at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia after finishing his term in 2017. .” Clearly , the Justice Department did not agree.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Democratic politicians and commentators are still demanding that Trump be criminally charged. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Mo Brooks and charging him with incitement.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

All left an imprint on the court or the law. In December 1958, a Black law student attending Howard University tried to order a cheeseburger at a restaurant in a Virginia bus terminal. Virginia , holding that federal law barred racial segregation in interstate public transportation. Some worked behind the scenes. 17, 1934 – Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The case also presents the question whether a public-accommodation law that authorizes secular but not religious exemptions is generally applicable under Employment Division v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.). A number of challenges to such laws have reached the court over the years, but National Pork Producers Council v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

Instead, the Bidens found another source at the University of Pennsylvania to cover their office needs. Attorney General Merrick Garland knows that many citizens no longer trust the government and his current position will only deepen those misgivings.

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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). Michael Hobbins was shot after being mistaken for a wild turkey by a fellow hunter in Union County, Pennsylvania in 2010. He later confessed.

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