JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. ” Under Section 948.60(2)(a) ” That makes Rittenhouse guilty, right?

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule. That was the holding in the famous ruling in Yania v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Here is the column: This past week the American Civil Liberties Union honored the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the one-year anniversary of her death — by rewriting her famous defense of a woman’s right to abortion to remove offensive language. This already is being litigated in some lower courts.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

In a major but likely controversial victory for free speech, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the conviction of a retired Air Force Colonel for using a racial epithet at the shoe store on the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. 568, 572 (1942), the Court has sharply abridged the application that exception.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

King in a paper published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. percent of federal criminal cases in 1962, but just over 2 percent in 2015, effectively turning trials into what former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called “a system of pleas, not a system of trials.” justice system.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Gretchen Whitmer for her misrepresentation of a state supreme court ruling that she violated the state constitution in her pandemic orders, a false account echoed by NBC’s Chuck Todd. Whitmer did violate the Constitution, as have other public officials in other states. I have been highly critical of Gov.

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