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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JUNE 2, 2022

The state of Arkansas has made reckless driving a criminal misdemeanor.

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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. The Alleghany Sheriff’s Office decided to issue a press release about how the lawyer stood there in just his shirt and underwear. There are times when it is a good thing justice is blind. b) Grading.–An

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Have people to bounce ideas off of: those people can be other lawyers, but also make sure you are talking to people who are NOT lawyers as well. 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.

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ALPS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Catapulted by the leadership of original National Task Force on Lawyer-Well Being member Chief Justice Donald W. Hello and welcome to episode six of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being Podcast Series. Lemons and his colleague Justice William C. Episode Transcript: Chris Newbold: . The Path to Well-Being in Law. Absolutely.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

During the homicide trial against Kyle Rittenhouse, now 18, lawyers repeatedly turn to the facts surrounding the semiautomatic rifle that he used to kill two men and wound a third during the community unrest in Kenosha, WI last summer. . Legal Claim to Self Defense? . It’s very fact-specific in each case.”.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Her lawyer requested security footage from the facility that might show who’d taken the pills. A judge ordered that it be given to the attorney on the condition that it not be released to anyone else. Her request to have a lawyer present was denied. She resigned shortly after , according to an incident report.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law requires that individuals “shall as soon as reasonably possible notify the prosecuting attorney, law enforcement, medical assistance, or other public officials.” Perhaps some of our Pennsylvania lawyers could help out.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

55-8-136, which is a Class C misdemeanor, the statute of limitations for plaintiff’s action was extended to two years pursuant to Tenn. I caution lawyers not to rely on this Court of Appeals decision at this time. Code Ann. § Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(2). In Younger v. Okbahhanes , No. E2020-00429-COA-R10-CV (Tenn.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The banishments require the consent of the defendant, but some lawyers question whether defendants really have any choice but to sign. I don’t think the actual terms of the neighborhood order of protection were clear to my client,” said Maureen Hanlon, an attorney for the public-interest law group ArchCity Defenders. “It

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

Forcible touching is a class A misdemeanor. The difficulty in such cases is that there are often no witnesses so lawyers seek to show pattern and practice evidence. That is the difference between the New York Attorney General report and a criminal case. Such a charge comes with the potential of a year sentence.

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LegalReader

MARCH 14, 2022

If the employee takes measures to purposely hide the occurrence, they could face a Class A misdemeanor charge.

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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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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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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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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 29, 2021

17 to face charges on a misdemeanor sex crime relating to an allegation that he “forcibly” touched a staff member. The charge, a Class A misdemeanor, carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail, reports The City. In a surprise move that critics charge has political overtones, former New York Gov. The complaint states that on Dec.

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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.

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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 26, 2023

I previously wrote on the failure of Attorney General Merrick Garland to restore public trust in his department. Attorney General David Weiss was denied the ability to bring charges in two other jurisdictions and was denied a request for special counsel status, Garland’s past statements to Congress stand contradicted.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Many criminal defense attorneys and torts attorneys give special thanks for a holiday that can involve copious amounts of alcohol, strained family relations, over-the-hill amateur football players, “Black Friday” sale stampedes , and novice cooks. faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people.

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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. Under Section 1519, the government can prosecute someone who “ knowingly conceals any document with the intent to obstruct ” their investigation.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton is among a small group of district attorneys working to dial back decades of tough-on-crime approaches. Statistics on her roughly 100-attorney staff shared with The Imprint show that in 2017, 43 percent were women. I never met a lawyer until I was somewhere in adulthood.” .

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We had sociologists, lawyers, police officers, formerly incarcerated folks, all around the same table talking about things like bail reform and victim assistance. When Attorney General Janet Reno and I and others first started this work, there was very little discussion about reentry. That’s Vera’s legacy. The word didn’t exist.

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JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2024

The hearing included testimony from the attorney generals of Montana, Oklahoma and Missouri—states led by Republican governors—who said they have dealt with impacts from Mayorkas’s policies, even though none of them neighbor Mexico. Attorney General Montana Austin Knudsen noted there had been a devastating fentanyl crisis in Montana.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Greg Abbott ’s Operation Lone Star , the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled unanimously Wednesday that Travis County courts can’t weigh claims of wrongful detention caused by misdemeanor arrests 200 miles away. Migrants sat in state prisons for weeks or months after being arrested without being appointed lawyers or seeing a judge.

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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. The language was anything but routine.

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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. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2024

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. Liberal commentators acknowledged the fact that Cohen had committed a far more serious offense than the converted misdemeanor against Trump (but was never charged).

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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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The Crime Report

JUNE 9, 2021

Attorneys Michael van der Veen and Bruce Castor, who defended former President Donald Trump at his Senate impeachment trial over allegedly inciting the Jan. have charged both women with unlawful entry of public property, a misdemeanor. Authorities in Washington, D.C.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

On July 8, 2021, a jury in Minnesota state court found four activists guilty of aiding and abetting fourth degree criminal damage to property, a misdemeanor offense. New Zealand Lawyers Challenged Climate Change Commission’s Recommendations. Lawyers for Climate Action NZ v. Conservation Law Foundation v. Shell Oil Co. ,

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Yet, Friedman is not a lawyer. What is more disconcerting is that lawyers are alleged to be involved in such efforts. Recently, Georgia officials confirmed that they are investigating The New Georgia Project — a group founded by lawyer Stacey Abrams — for allegedly seeking to register out of state voters and deceased individuals.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2021

Andrew Cuomo’s future remains uncertain following a report by the state attorney general’s office concluding that he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women throughout his recent political career — breaking state and federal laws, NBC News and The City NYC report. . New York Gov. Photo by Welington Abraham Trump via Flickr.

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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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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

Still, although Turley may not be someone to worry about; Attorney General Merrick Garland is. In fact, what Attorney General Garland is doing—doing covertly—is arranging a peremptory pardon for Donald Trump. Doyle is a Boston defense lawyer and author, and a regular columnist for The Crime Report. Start tomorrow.

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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. In Georgia, a slew of former lawyers are taking pleas with promises to testify if called. So that leaves the two cases surrounding the 2020 election.

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2021

The McCloskeys, both personal injury attorneys, originally faced felony firearm charges before pleading guilty. Mark McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and was fined $750. Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was fined $2,000.

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