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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. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. The incident has strikingly similar legal issues to the shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago.

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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

” ) In other words, the natural and probable consequences doctrine may apply to felony murder, but it is not properly applied to attempted murder. It must be proved, and it cannot be inferred merely from the commission of another dangerous crime.” ” [Citation.]’ ’ [Citations.]” In Brandenburg v.

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Why Has Trump Not Been Charged With Criminal Incitement?

JonathanTurley

Others claimed Trump committed “felony bribery” by fundraising for Republican senators when he was about to be impeached. Ohio , where the Supreme Court said even “advocacy of the use of force or of law violation” is protected unless it is imminent. That simply is not true. The problem is free speech. Trump’s Jan.

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

JonathanTurley

It was the criminal theory itself that seemed crafted around the standard for obscenity famously described by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the case of Jacobellis v. Ohio , 378 U.S. Of course, neither he nor his office has never seen this type of criminal case in any other defendant.

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

JonathanTurley

.” This ridiculous legal claims is based on the bribery theory: The danger for Shirkey and Chatfield, then, is that they are being visibly invited to a meeting where the likely agenda involves the felony of attempting to bribe a public official. 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

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.” The Committee was playing to the same audience and knew that they did not have to produce such evidence to make their case. At 4:17 p.m.,