SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

And over a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the justices declined to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. Prosecutors conceded that Medrano was not actually at the scene of the crime.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2024

There will be no dead felony zapped back into life against Cohen, as it was for Trump. You have a disbarred lawyer not only casually discussing lies and uncharged crimes, but prosecutors who proceeded to get him to remind the jury that he is not facing any further criminal charges. The result is truly otherworldly. Michael Cohen.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

They can also find positions on the State level, such as the Attorney General’s Office, and finally, opportunities exist at the Federal level with various agencies such as the Department of Justice, Military, Courts, Social Security Administration, CIA, Department of Transportation, and IRS to name a few. Paralegal Career Choice.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Here is the column: The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.” This week, New York judges and lawyers appear eager to prove that the same is true for cases against Donald Trump. They’ve charged him with everything short of ripping a label off a mattress.

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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. Do you understand me?”

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MorneauLaw

MAY 20, 2023

Illegal Recordings One-party consent is not allowed by New Hampshire law, including telephone calls or in-person conversations. Not only will most recordings not be admitted as exhibits by a judge, but these recordings can also bring bigger consequences including criminal misdemeanor or felony charges. appeared first on Morneau Law.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

He served Williams a summons ordering her to report to criminal court on a felony battery charge. She also said she didn’t know the facility security staff had been conducting investigations and determining whether patients had committed felonies that were then referred to the state’s attorney.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2024

There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. If any leg is missing, the stool collapses.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2021

The Switzerland Office of the Attorney General (OAG) on Tuesday dropped a decade-old money laundering investigation exposed by Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died under suspicious circumstances in a Russian jail in 2009. He died in 2009. Lauber was facing impeachment by Swiss parliamentarians.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 13, 2023

On Wednesday former president Donald Trump sued his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen for more than $500 million in a federal court in Miami. If you are a lawyer, an architect, or even his dentist, you’d better get paid up front. Meanwhile, Trump’s indefatigable ego and his inflated id are still very much in play. As James D.

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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

JUNE 29, 2022

Attorney General Dana Nessel has lost the Flint case in spectacular fashion this week. Three years ago, Nessel’s office dismissed Flint water charges brought by the Democrat’s predecessor, Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette. juror) to charge them.”

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Reporting on the latest data, OPB details that Oregon’s public defense system’s stress has had long-lasting implications, as it has one-third of the attorneys the state news to “adequately represent criminal defendants.”. hours per workday, and lawyers in Oregon would need to put in 26.6 ” New Mexico and Oregon. .”

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

While most Americans believe arrested people go to court soon after their arrest, Constitutional guarantees of a “fair and speedy trial” are infrequently honored in our under-resourced criminal justice system, according to a study produced by the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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. What is more disconcerting is that lawyers are alleged to be involved in such efforts. Here is the provisions under Georgia law: GA Code § 21-2-604 (2016). (a)

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Biden has ushered in a quiet revolution in what type of lawyers get selected for the federal judiciary. Over decades, presidents have mostly picked former prosecutors and corporate lawyers for top judgeships. When Biden assumed office, former prosecutors in the federal judiciary outnumbered former defense attorneys four to one.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 21, 2023

Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen has testified that Trump had him arrange the payout. Trump could be charged with misdemeanor falsification of records charges or felony charges related to campaign finance violations for the role the payout, falsely classified as an expense of the Trump Organization, may have played in the 2016 election.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. For many of us, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has created a new school of abstract law where there is no need for objective meaning. The key is to avoid any objective meaning. and Maurice C.

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ALPS

AUGUST 4, 2022

And she is the Director of Experiential Learning and a lecturer at the University of South Dakota School of Law. So I am a recent transfer to the law school, but I would say probably, more importantly, I’m a proud aunt, first-generation law student, and first-generation college student. We had a judge and I was his lawyer.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 5, 2023

” He insists that he will prove “attempts to violate state and federal election laws.” ” For months, many have raised objections to the effort of Manhattan District Attorney to use a flawed legal theory to essentially litigate a federal election violation that the Justice Department opted not to charge.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2021

Critics had sought the memo as the “smoking gun” to show how former Attorney General Bill Barr scuttled any obstruction charges against Donald Trump. The issue of obstruction of justice ran throughout Barr’s second term as Attorney General. The reason is what it did not contain. Instead, the memo showed the opposite.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial and much awaited explanation of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the underlying alleged criminal conduct. He did this by paying to quash a potentially embarrassing story and then reimbursing his lawyer with other legal expenses.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

Some 80 percent of those facing felony charges cannot afford an attorney and are left to rely on a system of overworked public defenders.

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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. Bragg may try to accomplish this Frankensteinian feat by converting this into a felony. Nobody is above the law, but nobody is below its protections … including Donald Trump.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. But they were still frog-marched into a plea bargain by their defense attorney or the prosecutor or the judge or some combination thereof. Photo by Brandy Brewer.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Carol recalls vacillating arguments between Burton’s (“Johnny Cochrane-esque”) defense attorney and the Pennsylvania DA, (“who was more akin to Perry Mason”), and how much of the trial involved discerning which version of the facts the jury wished to believe.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2023

This bargain had apparently involved dropping two of three felonies, but had not included an agreement on the sentence. The prosecutor and then the defense lawyer offered their spins on the defendant’s criminal record. The helpless terror on his face as he turned to his lawyer has stayed with me for 25 years. A juvenile record.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2024

Now it will be up to 12 New Yorkers to do what neither the court nor the prosecutors were willing to do: adhere to the rule of law regardless of the identity of the defendant. Merchan has allowed the government to bring back into life a dead misdemeanor and convert it into 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2022

7, but that he did not include lines about pardons at the urging of White House lawyer Pat Cipollone and others. Remember, WE are the Party of Law and Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. No Violence!

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is losing even CNN hosts and legal analysts. It shattered her laughable claim that she had not really been seeking money in shaking Trump down for a non-disclosure agreement, a claim contradicted by her own former lawyer. The cross examination was devastating. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2023

That is what attorney and former IRS official Lois Lerner did — twice — when House Republicans wanted to ask her about the Obama administration targeting conservative groups. That will force the hand of Attorney General Merrick Garland, who aggressively pursued Trump figures for contempt, including former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. But the defendants in the case counter that Gonzalez’s approach would “wreak havoc on law enforcement.” “No

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

We have been discussing the campaign of The Lincoln Project and others to harass and abuse lawyers who represent the Trump campaign or other parties bringing election challenges. Once again, the media is silent on this clearly abusive use of the criminal code target members of the opposing party in their raising objections under state law.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Throughout his career, the disbarred lawyer has found powerful clients who valued his reputation for supporting any side that offered the biggest payback. That celebrated role continued this year when Cohen was called to testify in the New York fraud case brought by Attorney General Letitia James. Is that your testimony?”

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2023

It instructed jurors that they would sit through witness testimony and review evidence by a prosecutor, and then “discuss with each other the evidence and the legal instructions” before voting on whether or not there is probable cause to indict each felony suspect. asked Mark Bederow, a criminal defense lawyer and former Manhattan prosecutor.

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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

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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