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The Crime Report
JANUARY 21, 2022
New York is moving to end a requirement that law school graduates report past arrests and police interactions short of convictions in order to become practicing attorneys, following a new report finding that excessive screening discourages people of color from applying to law school and the bar, reports Bloomberg News.
The Estrin Report
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Talking to people who are not attorneys will help ensure that your strategy is translating well, and they can help you think of options outside of the law that you may have overlooked. She began her early years as a Public Defender in the 20th Judicial Circuit before opening her private firm, Coleman Law, LLC in 2016.
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JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
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. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.)
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. She locked into a debate with the man’s public defender about the concept of mass incarceration, which she does not believe in.
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. Bragg may try to accomplish this Frankensteinian feat by converting this into a felony. They largely ignore that the misdemeanor is expired. The public pressure worked.
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. He just filed the first charges against a former president and refused to specify the basis for the felonies.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 23, 2023
They even threw in a phantom felony allegation that will evaporate once Hunter completes a diversion program. That’s right, Hunter is actually commendable for, after over five years, pleading to two misdemeanors with no likely jail time. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
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