Constitutional Law Court Misdemeanor Pennsylvania 
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. Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. The language of this Court in Brown v.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 7, 2023
Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit handed down a major ruling in favor of the Second Amendment rights of ex-felons. At issue was the federal “felon-in-possession” law—18 U.S.C. § The federal law makes it “unlawful for any person. 922(g)(1), which bars ex-felons from possession of firearms.
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.”
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