Constitutional Law Court Criminal Law Pennsylvania 
JonathanTurley
JUNE 30, 2021
Bill Cosby is a free man after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction that sent him to jail roughly three years ago to serve 3-10 years for sexual assault. He proceeded to incriminate himself in what the Court said was a bait-and-switch. Pennsylvania is not one of them (which is quite surprising).
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 19, 2021
The recent rape of a woman on a train in Pennsylvania has shocked and disgusted the nation, particularly after passengers did nothing to help the woman as she was allegedly attacked by Fiston Ngoy, 35. Now police are reportedly considering criminal charges against passengers who filmed the rape and did not call the police.
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JonathanTurley
JULY 5, 2021
From the prosecution of Bill Cosby to a federal lawsuit against Georgia, courts are dealing with cases where government lawyers repeat the same implausible claims with the same unconvincing results. In Pennsylvania, another prosecutor insisted that politics had nothing to do with a case. The Cosby ruling. In Cosby v.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 12, 2021
So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” For a court, the speech notably does not include a direct call for lawless action by Trump. The question is whether this was just a pandering to the public of whether he will now make those arguments in a court of law to allow for a legal challenge.
JonathanTurley
JULY 22, 2021
Bundy of Roselle Park Municipal Court that she must remove the offending signs. ” In 1971, the Supreme Court handed down Cohen v. Indeed, the Supreme Court just handed down a ruling in Mahanoy Area School District v. The Court has been mocked for its ham-handed efforts to define pornography.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 11, 2021
criminal code. Indeed, it would be considered protected speech by the Supreme Court. When I testified in both the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings, I noted that an article of impeachment does not have to be based on a clear crime but that Congress historically has looked to the criminal code to weigh impeachment offenses. .”
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 6, 2022
They knew that a court would throw out such an indictment and, even if they could find a willing judge, any conviction would be thrown out on appeal. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” The Supreme Court nevertheless overturned his conviction. The reason is that the speech itself was not a crime. In Brandenburg v.
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