Felony Georgia Legal Misdemeanor 
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 15, 2021
You’re not legally required to store your weapon in a safe manner.” And, there are no federal laws mandating gun storage practices after the owner takes position of a legally purchased firearm. In most states, violating the CAP law is a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor is a slap on the wrist.
The Crime Report
JULY 22, 2021
In a forthcoming paper in the Georgia State University Law Review, Thea Johnson argues that lying is at the heart of a plea bargaining process that “allows defendants the opportunity to negotiate fair resolutions to their cases in the face of a deeply unfair system.”. Lies about facts are used by parties to manipulate evidence in a case.
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The Crime Report
APRIL 4, 2023
A very bold and impressive broad-gauged indictment that few, if any legal pundits, saw coming. Turns out the payments of hush money to at least two women—misdemeanor offenses—were not really what these indictments were all about. Ergo, there were no misdemeanor charges, only first-degree felonies.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 3, 2020
We recently discussed how figures like New York Times columnist Tom Friedman calling on people to move to Georgia to rig the vote in favor of a Democratic takeover of the Senate. It did not seem to matter to either the newspaper or Friedman that he was encouraging the commission of a felony. Yet, Friedman is not a lawyer.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 21, 2023
It is an effort to reanimate a long dead legal claim against Trump, but could reanimate his presidential campaign. He is reportedly going to convert a misdemeanor for falsifying financial records into a prosecution of a federal crime. Here is the column: “It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive. it’s moving. IT’S ALIVE!”
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 23, 2023
While these political vs. legal interpretations of reality capture the moment in the ongoing saga of Donald Trump, I do not believe that the label of victim is “baked in” nor that his narrative of victimhood will be the prevailing one.
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