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Columbus Shooting Sparks Protests Despite Videotape Showing Knife Attack

JonathanTurley

The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, in Columbus, Ohio has sparked protests despite the police releasing a videotape that appeared to show Bryant moving to stab another girl. The incident has strikingly similar legal issues to the shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape.

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Criminalizing Migration: How We Got Here

The Crime Report

Beginning in the mid-1980s and carrying into today, immigration law has become increasingly intertwined with criminal law, resulting in a growing number of deportations, writes University of Denver law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, in an Ohio State Legal Studies research paper.

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“Without any Doubt, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Beyond any Doubt”: Tribe Declares Trump Committed Attempted Murder

JonathanTurley

There is also no compelling legal basis for the claim. ” ) In other words, the natural and probable consequences doctrine may apply to felony murder, but it is not properly applied to attempted murder. ” I guess there is no doubt. Those are plenty to start with.”. ” [Citation.]’ ’ [Citations.]”

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Why Has Trump Not Been Charged With Criminal Incitement?

JonathanTurley

Various members and legal experts have claimed that the case for prosecution is clear on its face. What was touted by many experts as a slam-dunk criminal charge has now joined a long list of alleged crimes that once were nightly cable-news sensations. Many of the same experts now trumpet the charge of criminal incitement in the Jan.

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Alvin Bragg has his Trump trial, All he Needs Now is a Crime

JonathanTurley

Indeed, if all of these facts of payments, non-disclosure agreements, and affairs are proven many of us (including liberal legal experts) are doubtful that there is any cognizable crime. Ohio , 378 U.S. He did this by paying to quash a potentially embarrassing story and then reimbursing his lawyer with other legal expenses.

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Michigan Legislators Face Calls For Possible Criminal Charges After Meeting With President Trump On Certification

JonathanTurley

While the legal team did raise some credible electoral concerns, I was also critical of Rudy Giuliani’s global communist conspiracy claim at the press conference this week. In my testimony, I went into historical and legal detail to explain why this theory was never credible. However, when Democrats like Sen. Barbara Boxer (D.,

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A Case of Hope Over Experience: The J6 Referral Falls Short of a Credible Criminal Case

JonathanTurley

There is justifiable anger over these accounts but this hearing was billed as presenting the case for criminal charged. Of course, to raise obvious legal barriers to prosecution today is to invite an Internet flash mob accusing you for being an insurrectionist or fellow traveler. It missed that mark by a considerable measure.