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Fani Willis Fights for a Mass Trial As the Georgia Defendants Scatter

JonathanTurley

Yet, while the appellate courts may allow the criminal cases to proceed to verdicts, these severance and removal motions could result in more narrow reviews on the appellate level. Of course, Willis is not the only person with a challenging calendar.

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Hunter Biden’s New Sobriety Defense Lifts the Blackout Dates on Addiction

JonathanTurley

The problem for the case is that Hunter and his counsel appear to have an elastic calendar on his addiction, depending on its value in a given case or controversy. Even before the latest calendar correction, the addiction defense only heightened the concerns over corrupt influence-peddling. He overcame it. He wrote about it.”It

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Gagging Donald Trump: Why Smith’s “Narrowly Tailored Motion” is a Neither Narrow Nor Wise

JonathanTurley

However, there are laws on the books allowing for the prosecution of such cases. Smith has pushed for a trial before the election and the court inexplicably shoehorned the trial into a crowded calendar just before the Super Tuesday election. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.