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Was Rittenhouse’s Possession of the AR-15 Unlawful?

JonathanTurley

Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly. For example, in 1547, the court was faced with a law making it a felony of steal “Horses, Geldings or Mares.” It is also hard to instruct a jury on an ambiguous statute.

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Police Groups Ask The University of Minnesota To Investigate Student’s Call To Make Life “Hell” For Officers

JonathanTurley

Whoever violates subdivision 2, clause (2), is guilty of a felony and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than ten years or to payment of a fine of not more than $20,000, or both, if the call triggers an emergency response and, as a result of the response, someone suffers great bodily harm or death. 2b.Other felony offenses.

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Appellate Court Upholds $25 Million Award Against Oberlin in Mob Action Against Family Grocery

JonathanTurley

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. Oberlin maintained in court filings that the son and grandson of the owners of Gibson’s Bakery “violently and unreasonably attacked” an unarmed student, but that is not how the police viewed it.

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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption

JonathanTurley

Rather than prosecuting Hunter Biden for a felony in lying on a federal gun form, it is sending him into a diversion program due to an addiction that he says he was able to break years ago. The Justice Department also appears to have latched on to the 7% solution.

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“The Framers Weren’t Perfect, but They Weren’t Fools”: Biden Administration Loses Another Gun Rights Case

JonathanTurley

District Judge David Counts in Midland, Texas also struck down a firearms law that banned individuals under felony indictment from buying guns. Barr , 919 F.3d 3d 437, 451–53 (7th Cir. 2019) (Barrett, J., dissenting). In September, U.S.

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Virginia Becomes Ground Zero in Battles Over Parental Rights

JonathanTurley

She was less specific on the details: “It could be a felony , it could be a misdemeanor, but we know that CPS charge could harm your employment, could harm their education, because nowadays many people do a CPS database search before offering employment.” Notably, both Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va) and Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D.,

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

It reportedly includes claims of felony and misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint, but didn’t name individual suspects. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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