JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The still unraveling story of Alex Murdaugh, the once powerful South Carolina lawyer, became even more bizarre this week with reports of the arrest of a man, Curtis Edward Smith, 61, accused of shooting him in the head. at the request of Murdaugh. However, the shot only grazed Alex Murdaugh’s head on Sept.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He has been reinvented by his lawyers and public relations team so many times he now seems like a Sybil witness with carefully constructed alternative personalities. If he recalls these events and messages, he will not only contradict prior denials but face potential criminal charges for any factual misrepresentations.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The court ruled that Georgia’s prior citizen’s arrest law is only applicable if a person sees a felony committed and acts without delay. The judge ruled Friday afternoon that the prior citizen’s arrest law requires that the arrest would have to occur right after any felony crime was committed. 17-4-60 (2010) 17-4-60.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

44 Magnum handgun and was later cleared under a Make My Day law as mistaken defense of his home and self. We also saw a tragic such case involving the killing of a law student. There was an equally baffling acquittal of a lawyer who shot an elderly farmer armed only with half of a broomstick used to guide his bull.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

His lawyer, Michael Elliott, insists that he was on his way to surrender to police when he was picked up. ” It appears that D may stand for Deandre and the lawyer believes that D is involved in the illegal exotic animal trade. If convicted of a felony, the maximum penalty is $20,000 and/or up to five years imprisonment.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

Feaster (an Air Force veteran) said that he was ready with his AR-15 rifle after being warned by a neighbor of a “plot” by “antifa activists.” ” He shot McVey in the lower abdomen and legs as she ran away. ” There is no disagreement that McVey was unarmed and running away.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

He served Williams a summons ordering her to report to criminal court on a felony battery charge. Williams, records show, is far from the only patient to have faced criminal charges. Nine months later, the patient was charged with felony battery. Reporters did not identify any charges at two of the four facilities.).

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 19, 2021

The second-degree murder claim does not require intent to murder Floyd but still requires a murder committed in the course of another felony. In a case that is best suited for a manslaughter claim, there is a risk of overcharging a case that undermines the narrative of the prosecution.

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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. What is clear is that personal injury lawyers will view the Bonanza ranch as aptly named for civil litigation.

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2021

For example, a collection of evidence about a single felony offense will be broken down into separate misdemeanor offenses labeled as separate “acts.” Even though a judge, prosecutor and defendant agree it was only one criminal act, the multiple misdemeanors would be honored to lessen the penalty, yet still get a semblance of justice.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

million were sent to a law firm and another firm associated with Hunter Biden. His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.” This past weekend, there were reports that, after the threatening WhatsApp message was sent, two payments totaling $5.1

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

2020, alleging an elaborate scheme to retaliate against her for her criticism of the city’s manager by three individuals: Edward Trevino, the mayor; John Siemens, then the city’s police chief; and Alex Wright, a lawyer whom Siemens had appointed as a special detective to investigate Gonzalez. In 2019, in Nieves v.

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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 lesson for lawyers should be lasting: even if you can secure a massive sweetheart deal, you may want to exercise a modicum of portion control. It could have been worse.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2024

After the first week of testimony, the trial of Donald Trump is increasingly looking like a mad prosecution machine by lawyers who don’t take law too seriously. He replied “An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.” I have long been a critic of the Bragg indictment as legally incomprehensible.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Now a date has been set for December 13th, but Hunter’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, is suggesting that he will not appear in private but only in a public hearing. This is a bad start for Hunter, who is a lawyer. ” As I noted at the time, that is not quite how subpoenas work. It is really not an invitation.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The filings do not indicate that the government has evidence of knowing concealment by Trump, but it cited various representations made by lawyers on his behalf. Her lawyers turned over about 30,000 work-related emails to the State Department and deleted 33,000 others while insisting they unilaterally deemed them “personal.”.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2023

There is no question that the best course in dealing with a felonious president is to first remove the president from office through the impeachment process and then indict the former president in the wake of the Senate conviction. His interview this week was the sign of life for a prosecutor who seemed headed for milk cartons.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 5, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on recent interviews by Hunter Biden, which appear to incriminate him in a possible federal felony. During that time, the story presumably was researched by the Biden campaign and by Hunter’s own lawyers. His latest scandal involves a missing gun and raises the issue of drug use and a possible felony.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

It shattered her laughable claim that she had not really been seeking money in shaking Trump down for a non-disclosure agreement, a claim contradicted by her own former lawyer. The cross examination was devastating. Daniels also revealed that she had spoken with the dead, and that a ghost had once held her boyfriend under water in a bathtub.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

Bragg may try to accomplish this Frankensteinian feat by converting this into a felony. The long-debated theory in Bragg’s office was whether they could effectively allege a violation of federal election laws even though the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission declined such charges. The public pressure worked.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It did not seem to matter to either the newspaper or Friedman that he was encouraging the commission of a felony. Yet, Friedman is not a lawyer. What is more disconcerting is that lawyers are alleged to be involved in such efforts. The silence from lawyers in failing to condemn this improper campaign is deafening.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The lawyer who holds that job, which is sometimes known as the “political deputy,” is normally the only deputy in the solicitor general’s office who is not a career civil servant (and the only other political appointee, beyond the solicitor general, in the office). solicitor general.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2021

The actual prosecutors at Main Justice found that not only would the allegations not meet the standard for obstruction of justice but that it would still be the case even if Trump was not the President of the United States.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The campaign finance charge actually was one of the more credible claims, since former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to it. Others claimed Trump committed “felony bribery” by fundraising for Republican senators when he was about to be impeached.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 5, 2023

The indictment seems to address the lack of legal precedent with a lack of specificity on the underlying “secondary” felony. This is where math and the law meet. They also may prove to be lawyers on the Wilde side. In his book, Pomerantz admits that “many of the lawyers were relentlessly negative.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Despite a strong case for prosecution, Epstein’s lawyers were able to secure a ridiculous deal with prosecutors. Epstein pleaded guilty to a Florida state charge of felony solicitation of underage girls in 2008 and served a 13-month jail sentence. I was an early and vocal critic of that deal with Epstein.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2023

They also would have to deal with a charge brought seven years after the alleged offense, despite a two-year statute of limitations for the underlying misdemeanors (or a five-year period for a felony). ” After he was arrested and Trump refused to pardon him , Cohen proved that when you scratch a lawyer, you can find a foe.

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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.” This week, New York judges and lawyers appear eager to prove that the same is true for cases against Donald Trump. One does not have to like Trump to repel from the spectacle about to unfold in Manhattan.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 21, 2022

Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe said the question was only what would be charged first, since Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” 18, 2020, meeting when two lawyers seemed close to a physical altercation. Trump is in trouble.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Throughout his career, the disbarred lawyer has found powerful clients who valued his reputation for supporting any side that offered the biggest payback. Now he is accused of yet another lie under oath and the question is whether his current benefactors will again protect him from a criminal charge. Is that your testimony?”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

We have been discussing the campaign of The Lincoln Project and others to harass and abuse lawyers who represent the Trump campaign or other parties bringing election challenges. Eliason recently defended the attacks on fellow lawyers who are represented those challenging election results or practices).

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

He did this by paying to quash a potentially embarrassing story and then reimbursing his lawyer with other legal expenses. Of course, neither he nor his office has never seen this type of criminal case in any other defendant. He paid the money to his lawyer, who had put together this settlement over the nondisclosure agreement.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

His lawyer, Abbe Lowell, previously said Hunter would testify only when “the time is right” and is now saying that Hunter would testify in public, not the scheduled private session. If he is found to have lied, he can be charged with a criminal felony. It has interviewed witnesses on the influence-peddling operation.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Stranger still was that behind Hunter was standing his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, who watched as his client effectively begged to be criminally charged. Where Bowman’s offense was treated as a misdemeanor, Hunter’s offense is a felony. But it was a familiar figure behind Lowell that was the most incongruous: Rep.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

Bragg is attempting something that many lawyers think is as improbable as the reanimation of the dead. 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.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Despite some of us writing to the contrary, Bannon claimed his lawyers told him he did not have to appear before a House committee. There already are questions over special treatment potentially being given to Hunter in the form of alleged felonies being allowed to expire, warnings about planned federal raids, and sweetheart deals.

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