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The Odor of Mendacity: 2024 Could Turn on Smell of Selective Prosecution from Georgia to New York

JonathanTurley

Channeling Tennessee Williams in his play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Judge Scott McAfee wrote that, after their testimony, there remained “an odor of mendacity.” This came after the Justice Department had allowed the statute of limitations to run out on major felonies and scuttled efforts to conduct searches and interviews.

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Columbus Shooting Sparks Protests Despite Videotape Showing Knife Attack

JonathanTurley

The videotape does appear to satisfy the standard for the use of lethal force under Tennessee v. Garner and other case law. ” That language is derived from Tennessee v. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Police told local media that, at 4:32 p.m., Garner , 471 U.S. In Graham v.

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