JURIST
JUNE 28, 2022
The Michigan Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that defendants charged in connection with the Flint water crisis are entitled to preliminary examinations. Baird and Nicolas Lyon, were charged for their roles in the Flint water crisis under Michigan’s “one-man grand jury statute.”
JonathanTurley
JULY 24, 2021
However, Trask was also key to the arrest of men in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. As a criminal defense attorney, I have long been a critic of the degree to which the FBI often pushes defendants to take actions to trigger criminal charges. Writing for the 5-4 majority, Justice Bryon White ruled that.
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SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Once I got home and re-entered my own real world, the fact that I could talk about the Supreme Court on ABC News meant absolutely zero. Aimee Stephens had worked as a funeral director at a Michigan funeral home for six years when, in 2013, she announced to her colleagues that she was transgender and would begin living as a woman.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Now, MSNBC legal analyst and Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade has gone one better. Indeed, such a use of the speech would contradict controlling Supreme Court precedent. She told MSNBC viewers that Trump could be charged with manslaughter for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. In Brandenburg v.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Experts like Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe have previously declared Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” That speech appears protected by the First Amendment and existing Supreme Court precedent. At 4:17 p.m., In Brandenburg v.
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