At the Lectern

JANUARY 3, 2021

to settle an important question of law.” The contested legality of a statute making a significant change to the state’s criminal law, that’s certainly “an important question of law.” A frequently invoked ground for Supreme Court review of a case is when it is “necessary.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

We also have a much higher rate of plea bargain cases than the rest of the world: almost 20 percent higher than just about any other common law country. From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. DC: The law exists to protect capital.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

Garner and other case law. 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. In Graham v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2023

If he recalls these events and messages, he will not only contradict prior denials but face potential criminal charges for any factual misrepresentations. The Justice Department has allowed felonies to lapse against Hunter, but these would be new potential charges with new dates under the statute of limitation.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

b) Involuntary—in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony; or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection. This incident could well prove a violation of a statute or regulation making the act “negligent per se.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

The Lacey Act and other federal wildlife statutes could be charged for such conduct. The Lacey Act makes it a federal crime to break the wildlife laws of any state, tribe, or foreign country, in interstate commerce. If convicted of a felony, the maximum penalty is $20,000 and/or up to five years imprisonment.

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JULY 22, 2021

Often it’s to ensure fairer and more responsive treatment at the hands of a justice system that otherwise offers them few other options, says a Rutgers University law professor. It depends on deception to “sidestep the law without changing the law.”. Lies about facts are used by parties to manipulate evidence in a case.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. But the defendants in the case counter that Gonzalez’s approach would “wreak havoc on law enforcement.” “No

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As such, the state law on the seizure of the weapons stands. Thus, McCloskey’s guilty plea, for which he obtained the benefit of the State dismissing a felony charge punishable by jail time, survived the pardon and importantly, with respect to the issue at hand in this replevin action, triggered the guns’ forfeiture.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The six misdemeanor charges and three felonies carry a potential sentence of 17 years for alleged tax evasion and filing a false return. The Justice Department inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to run on the most serious allegations involving payments from years going back to 2016. It could have been worse.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. While there is a fair debate over the policy of relocation by states like Texas and Florida, the effort to use the criminal process as part of that political debate is … well, pathetic. First, let’s look at the law.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

Given Bragg’s failure to even state the key offense allowing him to bring these 34 felonies, Merchan should have scheduled a hearing on the threshold legal questions in two weeks — not schedule all motions to be heard in December. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at The George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

I have been critical of the indictment, which is reportedly based on a highly dubious use of a New York misdemeanor charge to revise a long dormant federal election law charge. In 2018 (yes, that is how long this theory has been around), I wrote how difficult such a federal case would be under existing election laws.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2024

The filings also did not address the fact that the Justice Department not only allowed the statute of limitations to run on major crimes, but sought to finalize an obscene plea agreement with no jail time for Hunter. It was allowing the statute of limitations to run despite having an agreement on the table to keep potential felonies alive.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While the Justice Department slow walked his investigation and allowed the statute of limitations to run, any misrepresentation could be charged as a new felony with a new statute of limitations. Those spins could now come at a cost. Hunter will appear in the place set by the Committee.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Citizen arrests have been recognized since Medieval times when citizens had not just a right but a duty to to respond to a “hue and cry” of others identifying a criminal and seeking help. ” The right still exists for any felonies (or certain misdemeanors committed in the presence of the citizen).

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

However, the recent decision of Special Counsel Robert Hur not to bring criminal charges against President Joe Biden has undermined even that case. Hur described four decades of Biden serially violating laws governing classified documents. Shapiro professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit agreed with Cargill that the federal law defining “machinegun” does not apply to bump stocks because semiautomatic rifles equipped with bump stocks do not shoot multiple bullets “automatically” or “by a single function of the trigger,” as the law requires.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The reason, once again, is Hillary Clinton, who remains a complicating factor in Attorney General Merrick Garland showing the public that this is not about pursuing Trump but enforcing the law. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 13, 2023

It is also the same Weiss who reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run out on Hunter’s major tax offenses, even though he had the option to extend it. It is the same Weiss who did not indict on major tax felonies and cut a plea deal that brushed aside a felony gun charge.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

While the actual charges will not be disclosed until the release of the indictment, the underlying theory discussed for months is an effort to revive a dead misdemeanor offense of falsifying business records — years after the statute of limitations expired. Nobody is above the law, but nobody is below its protections … including Donald Trump.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. as “only jealousy.”. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

In past columns, we have discussed how Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe seems intent upon running through the entire criminal code in declaring clear evidence of every federal crime by former President Donald Trump and/or his family. You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Indeed, after years of denial, some Democratic members and the journalists are now admitting that Hunter Biden clearly broke the law. The Weiss investigation, however, languished for years even as some of us were pointing out that the statute of limitations was about to pass on felonies. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2023

If reports are accurate, he may attempt to “bootstrap” the misdemeanor into a felony (and longer statute of limitations) by alleging an effort to evade federal election charges. Moreover, Bragg could face the same statute of limitation concerns on some of the issues previously investigated by the Justice Department.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2023

Here is the column: If former President Donald Trump is indicted, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg would be prosecuting a case that has been widely criticized as long on politics and short on the law. Department of Justice. Michael Cohen worked for Trump The star witness is one of the most repellent figures in New York.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Here is the column: In both the law and psychology, the concept of “willful blindness” is a long-recognized pattern of human conduct. The Justice Department then attempted an absurd sweetheart deal to close off the case without felony charges or jail time. First, there are the tax violations.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Here is the column: The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.” That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations. However, two prosecutors, Carey R.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

While the Justice Department allowed the statutes of limitations to run on various felonies, Hunter would be faced with a new set of charges with years for criminal charges to be brought by prosecutors. That may now change. If Hunter lies to congressional investigators, he can be charged with a federal crime.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds. One of the longest standing debates in constitutional law is dismissed as ill-informed by some of the same experts. That is the point of a pardon.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

He pleaded guilty to felonies including false statements to banks in 2018. There is a five-year statute of limitations on lying to Congress. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney. Is that your testimony?”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Now, the Michigan Attorney General and others are suggesting that Republicans who oppose certification or even meet with President Donald Trump on the issue could be criminally investigated or charged. ” It is same weaponization of the criminal code for political purposes that we have seen in the last four years against Trump. .”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

New York prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told the jury that one of the crimes that Trump allegedly committed in listing the payments to Stormy Daniels as a “legal expense” was New York Law 17-152. It is not treated under federal law as a political contribution to yourself. As with James, Bragg saw it in Trump. Bragg did to.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If he is found to have lied, he can be charged with a criminal felony. Hunter has benefited from the Justice Department limiting its investigation and inexplicably allowing the statute of limitations to run on key charges. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

The Justice Department itself declined this prosecution and both the former chair of the Federal Election Commission and various election law experts have thrown shade on the theory. There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

He declared “we have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone.” In April, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg related to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election. Smith is now left in a battle not with Trump but time.

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