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Washington State Faces Defense Attorney Shortages

The Crime Report

Franklin County in Washington state is facing a lawyer shortage as newly booked inmates are not being assigned defense attorneys for the last two months, Cameron Probert reports for Tri-City Herald. Judges also have the power to assign private law firm attorneys, with the counties having to foot the bill.

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Alvin Bragg and The Art of Not Taking Law Too Seriously

JonathanTurley

After the first week of testimony, the trial of Donald Trump is increasingly looking like a mad prosecution machine by lawyers who don’t take law too seriously. After all, the base charge is a simple misdemeanor under a New York law against falsifying business records. The premise of the prosecution always had that Rube Goldberg feel.

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The Neutron Prosecutor: How Special Counsel Hur May Prove the Ultimate Punchline in Washington

JonathanTurley

There is no question that the best course in dealing with a felonious president is to first remove the president from office through the impeachment process and then indict the former president in the wake of the Senate conviction. So the question is whether Hur can get anything other than free drinks in Washington.

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“Hunter is Resolved”: Washington Celebrates the End to the Biden Corruption Scandal

JonathanTurley

They even threw in a phantom felony allegation that will evaporate once Hunter completes a diversion program. What is particularly chilling is that the establishment in Washington is not even trying to rebut the widespread view of a two-tiered system of justice. After all, the 4-year-old just got her clock cleaned in court.

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

JonathanTurley

There will be no dead felony zapped back into life against Cohen, as it was for Trump. While most members wait to take office to commit felonies, Rep. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Cohen would show up with a self-affirming criminal record. Michael Cohen.

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

JonathanTurley

Here is the column: The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.” 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. However, two prosecutors, Carey R. Dunne and Mark F.

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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. That allowed Weiss to delay any appearance.

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