Court Rules Criminal Law Felony Statute 
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
However, the most damaging moment came outside of the presence of the jury when the judge drilled down on the law. He told the prosecutors “I have been wrestling with this statute with, I’d hate to count the hours I’ve put into it, I’m still trying to figure out what it says, what’s prohibited. I have a legal education.”
JonathanTurley
APRIL 21, 2021
Garner addressed a fleeing unarmed suspects and found the state statute too broad: The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. .” T ennessee v. In Graham v.
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SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 19, 2024
A federal appeals court ruled that Gonzalez’s case could not go forward because she had not provided examples of others who had engaged in the same kind of conduct but had not engaged in protected speech and had not been arrested.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 17, 2022
” ) In other words, the natural and probable consequences doctrine may apply to felony murder, but it is not properly applied to attempted murder. Indeed, such a claim would contradict controlling Supreme Court precedent. It must be proved, and it cannot be inferred merely from the commission of another dangerous crime.”
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 26, 2022
The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, unanimously rejected that position and held that the ministerial exception applied. The other cases Kruger argued touched on a wide range of issues, from the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause and right to counsel to federal “career criminal” laws and federal benefits laws.
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