JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2022

Attorney Matthew M. The men were also convicted of misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Now, Robertson and Fracker must serve 87 months in prison, complete 36 months supervised release and pay restitution of $2,000. The men were sentenced in the District of Columbia.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee are among states where “reckless provision” of a firearm to a minor can lead to criminal charges. In most states, violating the CAP law is a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor is a slap on the wrist. Do we take this law from a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge?

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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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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 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. He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. Here is the column: “It’s moving. It’s alive.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, in realpolitik we saw evidence of Trump’s victimhood of “rigged” elections starting to ebb in the defeat last week of Jim Jordan of Ohio for the House Speakership and in the guilty pleas of two of Trump’s attorneys and co-defendants Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro in the Georgia RICO case.

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