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Paralegals: What If Your Client Claims Innocence?

Paralegal Mentor

In 2006, Professor Mitchell received the Justice For All award from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan for her Innocence Project work. Professor Mitchell’s litigation experience includes practicing before the U.S. Professor Mitchell’s publications are in the areas of criminal law, elder law, ethics, and clinical teaching.

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Too Clever By Half: Why Public Nuisance is Again at the Heart of a Public Health Debate

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The company and the Oklahoma justices are right on the law. Public nuisance was originally addressed in England by criminal laws against such offenses as obstructing “the King’s highways.”

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Trump’s Surprise Witness: Rep. Waters Becomes A Possible Witness Against Her Own Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

Waters’ most recent words could well be cited in the ongoing litigation over the January 6 th riot on Capitol Hill. Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. It is one of a number of lawsuits, including a lawsuit filed by Rep. Trump’s Jan.

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“The Impossible Must Be Possible”: How the Durham Whodunit Became Who Didn’t Do it

JonathanTurley

Elias was recently severed by the Democratic National Committee from further representation and has been previously sanctioned in the federal courts in other litigation.) Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and said the dossier “hasn’t been discredited, in fact, it has been opposite, it has been corroborated.”

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New Jersey Woman Triggers Free Speech Case With Profane Anti-Biden Signage

JonathanTurley

Ohio , the Court could not even agree on a clear reason why a porn film was not so obscene as to allow prosecution. California in which it overturned the conviction of Paul Robert Cohen for the crime of disturbing the peace by wearing a jacket declaring “F**k the Draft” in a California courthouse.

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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. The result is a horn of plenty for litigators. The Golden Ponds restaurant in Greece, New York is still being hit with new cases in the litigation stemming from last year. 155 Ohio App. Caponi (1969), 18 Ohio St.

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Why Has Trump Not Been Charged With Criminal Incitement?

JonathanTurley

However, such crimes are notoriously difficult to litigate , as shown by the failed 2012 prosecution of former presidential candidate John Edwards. Many of these alleged criminal acts were presented as reassuringly simple and straightforward. That simply is not true. The problem is free speech. Trump’s Jan.

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