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

JonathanTurley

That’s because the long “investigation” into Hunter inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to expire on the most controversial payments starting around 2014 from Ukraine gas company Burisma. There is still no explanation why special counsel David Weiss would allow the statute of limitations to run out.

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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. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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“Are You Staring Me Down?”: Judge Merchan Becomes an Oddity in his Own Courtroom

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Even more notably, he admitted to the larceny on the stand — after the statute of limitations had passed. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. There will be no dead felony zapped back into life against Cohen, as it was for Trump. In fact, it was hard not to stare.

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‘Say it Nicer’: Hunter Makes a Familiar Last-Minute Offer to Congress

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Indeed, in Washington, it was an open joke when Hunter was put on the Amtrak board and later made its vice chair. When pressed on his lack of credentials for the position, Democratic Senator Tom Carper of Delaware quipped that “ Hunter Biden has spent a lot of time on Amtrak trains.” Hunter demanded that they yield to his demands.

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Bragg and the Jackson Pollock School of Prosecution: Why the Trump Trial Could End With a Hung Jury

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To achieve that extraordinary goal, he has alleged that the document violations (which expired long ago under the statute of limitations) were committed to hide some other crime. Originally, Bragg vaguely referenced four crimes and there have been months of confusion as to what he was specifically alleging as his criminal theories.

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The Non-Denial Denial: David Weiss and Prosecutorial Nihilism

JonathanTurley

Indeed, after years of denial, some Democratic members and the journalists are now admitting that Hunter Biden clearly broke the law. The Weiss investigation, however, languished for years even as some of us were pointing out that the statute of limitations was about to pass on felonies. were confirmed by those U.S. Attorneys — E.

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The Trump Trial in Manhattan is an Indictment of the New York Legal System

JonathanTurley

That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Like his predecessor, Bragg previously scoffed at the case.

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