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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

However, after the industrial revolution [and the rise of] the English working classes, there just weren’t enough police to keep whacking people over the head with the criminal law. Today, one out of every three adults in this country has a criminal or arrest history of some kind.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

SCOTUSBlog

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. James Buckley of New York. Valeo ,” Bolton told The New York Times.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. While there is a fair debate over the policy of relocation by states like Texas and Florida, the effort to use the criminal process as part of that political debate is … well, pathetic.

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

JonathanTurley

In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. Shapiro professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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Garland’s Theater of The Absurd: Why the Hunter Biden Scandal is No Longer a Laughing Matter

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding scandal surrounding the Hunter Biden investigation. The reason for his change at Justice, according to the New York Times? Dan Goldman of New York). Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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Comey’s “Good Day”: How Political Prosecutions Became “Ethical Leadership” in the Pursuit of Trump

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the level of joy being expressed by many over the indictment of former president Donald Trump, including former FBI Director James Comey. Various professors and pundits have declared that this unprecedented use of New York law would be perfectly legal and commendable.

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He Who Must Not Be Named: The Hunter Biden Indictment is Itself a Model of Evasion

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the second indictment of Hunter Biden. Here is the column: The 56-page indictment of Hunter Biden for tax evasion makes for racy reading, with the special counsel describing a four-year criminal pattern directed at maintaining Biden’s “extravagant lifestyle.”

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