JonathanTurley
JUNE 30, 2021
Roughly 30 states and the District of Columbia have statutes allowing for recovery for wrongful convictions and imprisonment. One question is whether Cosby could now sue for not just the prosecution but the incarceration in light of the ruling of the Supreme Court. Pennsylvania is not one of them (which is quite surprising).
JonathanTurley
MARCH 10, 2022
District of Columbia v. The Ninth Circuit acknowledge that “while there need not be ‘a case directly on point, [] existing precedent must have placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debate.” Wesby, 138 S. 577, 589 (2018). ” Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731, 741 (2011).
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JonathanTurley
APRIL 7, 2024
Now, Judge Walton has been criticized by the United States Court of Appeals for a District of Columbia for a surveillance order of the computer of a January 6th defendant. ” The issue of these public statements by Trump is currently pending before both state and federal courts, including proceedings in the District of Columbia.
Constitutional Law Reporter
JUNE 3, 2022
Sentencing Commission, Jackson is intimately familiar with the inner workings of the criminal justice system. District Court for the District of Columbia. Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the only other current justice with experience as a judge in the trial or district courts.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 3, 2021
Below is my column in the Hill on the District of Columbia not only admitting that it used tear gas on June 1 last year near Lafayette Park, but also defending the use as entirely appropriate to enforce the curfew order of Mayor Muriel Bowser.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 30, 2023
Trump potentially faces four major prosecutions in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia and New York before the 2024 election. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has already indicated that the court will not treat Trump differently because he is running for office. In Washington, U.S.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 19, 2021
Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. Such a result would eviscerate the claim that Trump was guilty of criminal incitement in his speech. He should be criminally indicted for inciting insurrection against our democracy.”
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