JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The recent rape of a woman on a train in Pennsylvania has shocked and disgusted the nation, particularly after passengers did nothing to help the woman as she was allegedly attacked by Fiston Ngoy, 35. Now police are reportedly considering criminal charges against passengers who filmed the rape and did not call the police.

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MAY 19, 2022

A recent report from the Quattrone Center on the Fair Administration of Jujstice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School provides comprehensive guidelines for “collaboration agreements” that outline how to handle discovery of misconduct and other delicate issues like media relationships and information sharing.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

YouTube The Berks County District Attorney’s Office has confirmed that it is dropping charges against Damon Atkins after the preacher was arrested citing the Bible in protest of an LGBTQ Pride event in Reading, Pennsylvania. Ironically, Atkins was reciting 1 Corinthians 14:33 that begins “For God is not the author of confusion.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 3, 2021

We recently discussed the ruling of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturning the conviction of Bill Cosby. That is why it was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. While the Court differed on what errors warranted such action, all of the justices agreed that the trial was fundamentally flawed.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Notably, Pennsylvania is a state that makes even the encouragement of suicide a crime under 18 U.S.C. Causing suicide as criminal homicide. –A person may be convicted of criminal homicide for causing another to commit suicide only if he intentionally causes such suicide by force, duress or deception. .

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2021

The paper’s author, Jacob Schuman , an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University School of Law, argues that the system of supervised release has become a “drug-control network focused on public safety” rather than rehabilitation. See Also: Stop Criminalizing Opioid Drug Users: Report.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Two Pennsylvania men have been sentenced for torching a police car and attempting to burn another vehicle during last year’s protests over the murder of George Floyd. West received a more stringent sentence due to prior criminal history. That is hardly surprising given videos showing the men involved in the arson.

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JURIST

AUGUST 16, 2022

Federal police officers Monday filed a complaint against Pennsylvania resident Adam Bies for making threats against federal law enforcement officers. The post Federal authorities charge Pennsylvania man after online threats to FBI officers appeared first on JURIST - News.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

All left an imprint on the court or the law. In December 1958, a Black law student attending Howard University tried to order a cheeseburger at a restaurant in a Virginia bus terminal. Virginia , holding that federal law barred racial segregation in interstate public transportation. Some worked behind the scenes. 17, 1934 – Oct.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

The case also presents the question whether a public-accommodation law that authorizes secular but not religious exemptions is generally applicable under Employment Division v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.). A number of challenges to such laws have reached the court over the years, but National Pork Producers Council v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2021

Philadelphia-based attorney Jerome Marcus told the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that he was withdrawing because President Trump used him, and his election challenge, to “perpetuate a crime.” In fairness to Marcus, one of the grounds for withdrawal is a criminal enterprise.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Of course, no one would confuse a bottle of Chardonnay with a Turkey, but that does not seem to matter under our increasingly absurd copyright and trademark laws. ————————————————————. Michael Hobbins was shot after being mistaken for a wild turkey by a fellow hunter in Union County, Pennsylvania in 2010. He later confessed.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Ads for a candidate in Pennsylvania used the “Let’s Go Brandon” language generally acknowledged to be an allusion to a profanity directed at President Biden (see article here ). At that time, the FCC indicated that broadcasters need not run an ad that would violate a Federal criminal law (in that case, obscenity laws).

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives Wednesday voted to impeach Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. Krasner, a former public defender and member of the progressive prosecutor movement, has faced sharp criticism from Pennsylvania Republicans since his election in 2021.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Here is the column: This month, the sudden appearance of Special Counsel Robert Hur caused as much of a stir as Bigfoot suddenly appearing on Pennsylvania Avenue. In his press conference announcing the criminal charges against Trump, Smith declared, “We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone….Nothing

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2023

In order to appoint a special counsel, the Attorney General had to find “ that criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted.” ” That does not mean that there is criminal conduct in this case, but the law prefers, at least for appearance’s sake, to wait for a modicum of evidence before making final judgments.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

In Pennsylvania, another prosecutor insisted that politics had nothing to do with a case. Kevin Steele, the Montgomery County district attorney who convicted comedian Bill Cosby in 2018, remained defiant after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned Cosby’s sexual assault conviction on Wednesday. The Cosby ruling. In Cosby v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2023

For example, Biden left office as vice president in 2017 and had an office at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia after finishing his term until 2019. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. However, even that explanation raises more questions.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2023

2 of the discovery as it was closing out a Washington office, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, that Biden used as part of his relationship with the University of Pennsylvania after he left the vice presidency in 2017. The White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives on Nov.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

Instead, the Bidens found another source at the University of Pennsylvania to cover their office needs. The manager was even asked to change the names on the front door to include Joe and Jill Biden. The arrangement appears to have fallen to the wayside with other aspects of the Chinese deals.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” The question is whether this was just a pandering to the public of whether he will now make those arguments in a court of law to allow for a legal challenge. I believe that they are fundamentally wrong on the controlling law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2022

Cheney called out Pennsylvania Republican Rep. There is an interesting initial battle brewing over an accusation made by Rep. Liz Cheney during the first public hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 22, 2021

The ruling is reminiscent of the ruling of another judge in Pennsylvania in a case where a Muslim man attacked an atheist who wore a “Zombie Mohammed” costume on Halloween. It seems a tad odd that Dick cannot use this word near a school, but one of the students can do a virtual profane cheer with the same word and gestures.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2021

So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” .” He ended his speech by saying a protest at the Capitol was meant to “try and give our Republicans, the weak ones … the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. The governing legal standard for violent speech is found in Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” Being callous or slow in making public statements may make you a bad person or bad president but it does not make you an actual criminal. This is not some form of nonfeasance in failing to take an action required by law. It would gut the First Amendment.

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