JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

All of the lawyering in the world could not get a jury to unsee what they saw in those videos. Both George Zimmerman and the Georgia defendants claimed that they pursued a suspected felon and that the shooting occurred only after the deceased grabbed the weapons. The underlying defense claims were strikingly similar.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

There was a notable filing in the ongoing scandal in Georgia over the intimate relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Defense lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, claims to have an affidavit that Willis lied about when the relationship began — a critical fact in her defense against ethical allegations.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

From the prosecution of Bill Cosby to a federal lawsuit against Georgia, courts are dealing with cases where government lawyers repeat the same implausible claims with the same unconvincing results. The Georgia lawsuit. Likewise, Biden falsely claimed Georgia’s law prevents voters in line at polling places from getting water.

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JUNE 24, 2022

Trump floated suggestions to Rosen which included appointing a Special Counsel for election fraud, meeting with Trump lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani , filing a suit before the Supreme Court, and even seizing state voting machines. Rosen and Donoghue refused to sign the letter due to disagreements about its factuality.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ellis made a very different appearance today in state court pleaded guilty to intentionally interfering in the election process in the state of Georgia. I endeavored to represent my client to the best of my ability…What I did not do, but I should, was make sure the facts that the other lawyers alleged to be true were in fact true.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2021

Law has become a recreation and legal analysts have become part of the legal entertainment. Within minutes of the leaking of a call between Trump and Georgia election officials, the same experts were declaring yet another clear crime. Georgia is a one party consent state).

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Below is a slightly expanded version of my column on Fox.com on the hearing in Georgia over allegations of improper conduct by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. ” The fact that the question clearly asked about any sexual relationship up to May 30, 2023 did not matter to the lead prosecutor in the Georgia election case.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

In Georgia, a slew of former lawyers are taking pleas with promises to testify if called. ” Previously, Chesebro’s lawyers stated that nothing about his “conduct falls outside the bounds of what lawyers do on a daily basis; researching the law in order to find solutions that address their clients’ particularized needs.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Lawyer Marc Elias has been much in the news lately for his role in funding the Steele dossier, which is a subject of the investigation of Special Counsel John Durham. Elias was also criticized for what he said about the ability of Georgia voters to fill out simple forms. million paid to the campaign’s law firm.

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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. Lies about law involve lawyers twisting statutes until they no longer represent the original law. The full paper can be accessed here.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Here is the column: Last week , some of us were struck by how Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis seemed to morph into the man she is prosecuting in Georgia. Now, Hunter Biden also seems to have gone full Trump in court and no one appears to have noticed. However, his arguments are strikingly familiar.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 21, 2022

White House strategy sessions became increasingly heated between Trump’s two teams of lawyers, including a breathtaking Dec. 18, 2020, meeting when two lawyers seemed close to a physical altercation. But, again, it is a difficult criminal case to make, based on a layperson believing one set of lawyers over another.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2022

” It was not illegal to push for the appointment of a more favorable attorney general though I believe such a letter would have been fundamentally wrong.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2020

to seek the disbarment of roughly a dozen Trump and Republican lawyers for challenging election results. Indeed, during the impeachment trial of President Trump, North Carolina Law Professor Michael Gerhardt predicted that the entire Trump legal team would be disbarred after their representation of the President. YouTube Screenshot.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. Boynton went on to spend his career as a civil rights lawyer (even though his home state of Alabama refused to give him a law license for six years because of his involvement in the Supreme Court case). Bernard Sol Cohen.

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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 14, 2023

That would still leave the New York and Georgia cases, which are not subject to presidential pardons. Moreover, the new Attorney General could scuttle or undermine the prosecution. In other words, it is possible that Jack Smith might never see a jury in either case. None of this means that Trump is out of the woods.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2024

She told lawyers that she will stick with her schedule unless “I’m in trial in another matter that has not yet returned to my calendar.” State prosecutors in New York and Georgia waited for years to charge Trump, then pushed for expedited schedules in order to try him before the election. Most citizens already see that reality.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

In a rally in Georgia, Trump declared : “They’ve launched one witch hunt after another to try and stop our movement, to thwart the will of the American people. Earlier, Smith reportedly compelled the appearance of Trump lawyers before the grand jury. Below is the column in the Messenger on the Trump indictment.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the Georgia trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, Judge Timothy Walmsley delivered a haymaker to the defense on the very eve of closing statements. 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. Here is the prior law: O.C.G.A.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Like Racine, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been lionized for opening criminal investigation into the phone call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger last month. While often omitted in news accounts, the call was actually a settlement discussion between the Trump team and the Georgia team.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

This would be the third criminal indictment of Trump and there may still be a fourth coming in Georgia. Smith has a reputation in conservative circles for stretching the criminal code in high-profile cases, including the prosecution of then-Virginia Gov. However, relying on bad advice or bad law is not a crime.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In testimony to Congress, Sullivan also insisted that he did not know the Alfa Bank scandal was the work of a Clinton lawyer and people associated with the campaign. The campaign lawyer reportedly was Elias, and the “foreign policy advisor” reportedly was Sullivan.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2022

Hearing an account of Trump lawyer John Eastman tell the Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers to “just do it” in scrapping the state’s slate of electors was cringeworthy. However, many seem to be making the same demand of Attorney General Garland about bringing criminal charges. Not probably meritless but entirely, knowingly meritless.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We help lawyers make evidence-based decisions about the venues they choose and the arguments they make by focusing on the jurisprudence of the judges and courts they interact with. Target customer: Medium to large firms, particularly those in the 100-200 range of Am Law’s rankings. Founded: 9/8/2018.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Two of the cases involve criminal law, and one is a capital case. The third case involves a fairly arcane issue of pleading claims under federal pension law. The Georgia Supreme Court concluded that the shackles had little effect on the jury in light of the evidence of Whatley’s dangerousness, and the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2023

He also faces other possible legal action, of course, including potential state charges in Georgia for election law violations.) Now, the Justice Department is considering charges against Trump for false statements given to investigators on classified material at Mar-a-Lago. (He

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We help lawyers make evidence-based decisions about the venues they choose and the arguments they make by focusing on the jurisprudence of the judges and courts they interact with. Target customer: Medium to large firms, particularly those in the 100-200 range of Am Law’s rankings. Founded: 9/8/2018.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The 2017 cases include a Georgia company that is likely to conclude that no good deed goes unpunished. The TOYO Tire plant arranged for a catered Thanksgiving celebration over two days in White, Georgia. Thanksgiving means one thing for personal injury lawyers: food poisoning. This is going to make this year’s dinner.

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