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The Crime Report
OCTOBER 5, 2022
The link between Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and criminal behavior is rarely acknowledged as a mitigating factor in U.S. jurisprudence , says a New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper. . According to the New York Law School study, racial minorities are more likely to have FAS.
The Crime Report
APRIL 8, 2022
However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. When it was instituted, there was overt classism in the legal system: you’re basically only going to have a lawyer if you can afford one.
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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.
JonathanTurley
MAY 14, 2024
C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in the New York Post on the first day of the examination of Michael Cohen. Thus far, however, Cohen has offered nothing new and, more importantly, nothing to make the case for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Many of us have ridiculed this case as devoid of any criminal act.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 6, 2024
Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding controversy surrounding the disqualification of Fani Willis and Nathan Wade. That includes prior text messages in which Wade’s former partner and lawyer Terrence Bradley repeatedly told opposing counsel that he was “absolutely” sure that the relationship began much earlier.
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. After all, the base charge is a simple misdemeanor under a New York law against falsifying business records. It was so implausible as to be impossible.
JonathanTurley
MAY 15, 2024
Below is a slightly expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the first day of cross examination for Michael Cohen. Judge Juan Merchan will now have to give the full measure of his commitment to the rule of law. It was a breathtaking betrayal that most lawyers would not contemplate, let alone carry out.
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