JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. million payment in attorney fees. The jury in June 2019 awarded the Gibsons $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages. A judge later reduced the award to $25 million.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Attorney Jeffrey Pollock, 59, was reportedly put out when a metal detector repeatedly set off an alarm at a Pittsburgh courthouse. Most judges will not view the security checkpoint as a place for such spontaneous forms of protest by an attorney. There are times when it is a good thing justice is blind. b) Grading.–An

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

New York nonprofit The Legal Aid Society (LAS) Thursday reported that data from the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) shows the successes of New York’s 2019 bail reform law. ” However, for all violent felonies and some nonviolent felonies, like sex offenses, judges can still set monetary bail.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

Here is what the provision states: “Any person who, by his advertisement, ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

Forcible touching is a class A misdemeanor. That is the difference between the New York Attorney General report and a criminal case. The report was the aggregation of allegations which were not proven in the sense of a criminal trial. Such a charge comes with the potential of a year sentence.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

” The language of the statute in my view is unconstitutional due to its sweeping criminalization of any “curse or abuse” that could “provoke a breach of the peace.” ” However, the appellate panel corrected noted that such laws are narrowly construed in light of controlling precedent.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The charges in all but one of the 40 cases were elevated from misdemeanors to felonies based on legal technicalities allowed under Illinois law — that the altercations happened at a “public place” or that the victim was a medical professional — rather than the seriousness of the acts. She called the practice “highly inappropriate.”

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

Most importantly, we need to decide as a society whether we value shortcuts or justice in our criminal legal system, because we’ve proven we can’t have both. Somil Trivedi is Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project. Rebecca Brown is Policy Director of the Innocence Project.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The six misdemeanor charges and three felonies carry a potential sentence of 17 years for alleged tax evasion and filing a false return. After all, Attorney General Merrick Garland had refused the calls of many of us to appoint a Special Counsel to look into the corruption scandal. It could have been worse.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2021

In comparison, subway crime had dramatically declined in the three decades prior to the pandemic, largely because of high ridership and “consistent” civil and criminal law enforcement. “In NYPD routinely confiscated handguns and knives from people committing misdemeanors on the subways. Bratton’s success?felonies

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2023

I was highly skeptical of the charges brought by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who was later removed from the case due to ethical concerns. Mark McCloskey later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors to end the case, but was then granted a pardon. As such, the state law on the seizure of the weapons stands.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2022

One of those is Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj, who in now in middle of a controversy over an alleged misrepresentation of the criminal record of a felon in order to secure a lower sentence in a plea deal. Your lane is being the attorney general of Virginia.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Rittenhouse is facing six charges that range from first-degree homicide to a misdemeanor of being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. At this stage, the prosecution may celebrate even a misdemeanor conviction. It is either the product of systemic errors or systemic racism. Prosecution’s bumpy start, and finish.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 11, 2020

I have been skeptical in the past of the charges brought against Mark and Patricia McCloskey by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner given the countervailing rights of gun possession and home protection in Missouri. YouTube Screenshot. The problem in the Gardner matter is recurring for both state prosecutors and judges who run for office.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

to be charged criminally for transporting 36 people to Sacramento. 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.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

I have been critical of the indictment, which is reportedly based on a highly dubious use of a New York misdemeanor charge to revise a long dormant federal election law charge. A Section 175 charge would normally be a misdemeanor. Yet, there was no hue and cry for this type of prosecution in Washington or New York.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

If there is an Ed Wood school of prosecution, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg could prove to be its most apt pupil. For many weeks, experts on both the left and the right expressed doubts that Bragg could charge Trump with falsifying business records, a misdemeanor with a now-expired two-year statute of limitation.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

On April 13, 2018, in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos staked her position on sentencing for a man convicted of a misdemeanor and a low-level felony. solidify its place as an exporter of law and policy. solidify its place as an exporter of law and policy.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2024

The government proposed no changes to Paragraph 1 of the Plea Agreement, which required the defendant to plead guilty to two misdemeanors. As shown in Exhibit 3, the government proposed changes to Paragraphs 14, 15 and 17 of the Diversion Agreement, and Paragraph 5(b) of the Plea Agreement.

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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). faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In some cities, like San Francisco, police largely stopped responding to shoplifting calls after state law was changed to make the theft of merchandise worth $950 or less just a misdemeanor. Career prosecutors have quit there after the election of District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who is blamed for a sharp decrease in prosecutions.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 26, 2023

I previously wrote on the failure of Attorney General Merrick Garland to restore public trust in his department. The allegations raised against the Department now have potentially criminal and impeachable elements. Attorney David Weiss, shocked IRS and FBI investigators in a meeting on October 22, 2022. Someone is lying.

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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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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The reason, once again, is Hillary Clinton, who remains a complicating factor in Attorney General Merrick Garland showing the public that this is not about pursuing Trump but enforcing the law. 8 search. Thus, an obstruction charge against Trump would be prosecuted in the shadow of Hillary Clinton’s case.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

this would constitute a criminal misdemeanor. Prosecutions for violation of the provisions of this subsection shall be on information filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

Yet now Comey is heralding the effort of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg , who campaigned on a pledge of bagging Trump for some unspecified crime. Despite the widespread criticism of Bragg for reducing charges for an array of felonies by Manhattan criminals, he spent months working to convert a misdemeanor into a felony.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

” The responsibility for this theater of the absurd is Attorney General Merrick Garland who has again shown a lack of strength and leadership at a key moment for his department. Now it appears that the controversial “sweetheart deal” was not the first choice of US Attorney David Weiss. Why would that be?

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. He will declare himself guilty so the media and the political establishment can declare the scandal to be a closed matter: Nothing more to see here, other than a plea to a couple misdemeanors.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Warning: it has no legally nutritional content… Here is the column: “We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said of his indictment of former president Donald Trump. At some point, Bragg will have to state the actual criminal basis for these 34 counts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

Despite the release of evidence by the House Oversight Committee showing potentially millions of transfers to Biden family members from foreign sources, Attorney General Merrick Garland has blocked any appointment of a special counsel. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

On the Republican side, Florida attorney Bill Price is facing a more direct and serious investigation than Abrams (who has not been personally implicated in such actions). 2) A person convicted of the offense of criminal solicitation to commit election fraud in the second degree shall be punished as for a misdemeanor. (b)

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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. Yesterday, I wrote about the early skirmish between Cohen and his former counsel. Department of Justice.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2023

Here is the column: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has finally made history. The only crime that has been discussed in this case is an unprecedented attempt to revive a misdemeanor for falsifying business documents that expired years ago. He is a Fox News contributor.

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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. There indeed are obvious differences in the two cases, but the underlying danger of a misdemeanor charge still remains in both.

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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. Some of their depositions have been leaked, much to the dismay of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2023

Biden may have to take responsibility for this debacle, but he faces a potential criminal charge. While Attorney General Merrick Garland has again refused to appoint a special counsel, any acknowledgment of Biden’s knowledge or interaction with the documents could have serious legal ramifications.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Since there is not even a requirement that a high crime and misdemeanor be an actual crime, few argue that there is a categorical bar on the use of speech for the basis of impeachment under the First Amendment. That is not determinative on the question but it is obviously relevant in weighing the culpability of using these words.

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