Above The Law

MARCH 29, 2024

Bloomberg Law News ] * Simpson Thacher tells lawyers to relax more. The Guardian ] * Meanwhile, white Republican who believes 2020 election was stolen voted repeatedly over the years despite multiple felony sentences. Washington Post ] * Diddy's lawyers think those DHS raids were excessive. Also bill more. Because YOLO.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Friday refused a request by Missouri to reinstate a state law that bars police officers from enforcing federal restrictions on the sale and ownership of firearms that the state believes violate the Second Amendment. The law imposes fines of $50,000 for violations of that ban. Missouri Gov. 29, the U.S.

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The Crime Report

MAY 8, 2023

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. Franklin County officials are looking to add $300,000 to the Office of Public Defense to attract more lawyers.

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JURIST

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law published a report Wednesday identifying thousands of people being held in Mississippi’s county jails while awaiting trial because they cannot afford bail or public defenders unavailable when required.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 27, 2022

* One of Donald Trump’s lawyers says the January 6 Committee’s criminal referrals against the former president are “pretty much worthless.” American Lawyer ]. * A jury convicted rapper Tory Lanez of three felonies in the shooting of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion. appeared first on Above the Law. The Hill ].

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2024

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. It was so implausible as to be impossible. and Maurice C.

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The Crime Report

MAY 20, 2021

Only 11 states report having minimum qualifications for lawyers who represent impoverished people facing a lifetime behind bars, according to the nonprofit Sixth Amendment Center. Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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. What is more disconcerting is that lawyers are alleged to be involved in such efforts. Here is the provisions under Georgia law: GA Code § 21-2-604 (2016). (a)

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

And over a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the justices declined to decide whether the Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. Prosecutors conceded that Medrano was not actually at the scene of the crime. A Florida state court upheld Cunningham’s conviction.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2024

There will be no dead felony zapped back into life against Cohen, as it was for Trump. You have a disbarred lawyer not only casually discussing lies and uncharged crimes, but prosecutors who proceeded to get him to remind the jury that he is not facing any further criminal charges. The result is truly otherworldly. Michael Cohen.

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SimplyLawJobs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If you’re looking for admission to a law school, you better start preparing early. Getting into a law school can be difficult; you need to possess several skills, such as – solving problems, critical thinking, research, communication, time management, public service, etc. .

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Pushing back, lawyers for the three defendants have said their clients pursued Arbery not because he was Black but because they believed he had been breaking into houses in the Satilla Shores neighborhood. The McMichaels contend they were relying on Georgia’s then-existing citizen’s arrest law.

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JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two cases involving one of its own precedents regarding felony firearms possession. The issues in both cases involves the federal law that prohibits felons from possessing firearms, 18 USC §922(g). Two years ago in Rehaif v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 19, 2021

A well-known Colorado lawyer and animal rights activist, Jennifer Emmi, 43, is facing an impressive array of charges in an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting the girlfriend of her estranged husband. The plea allows for the dropping of 11 other felony charges and 12 misdemeanor charges Emmi was facing, according to another report.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Here is the column: The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.” This week, New York judges and lawyers appear eager to prove that the same is true for cases against Donald Trump. One does not have to like Trump to repel from the spectacle about to unfold in Manhattan.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Now a date has been set for December 13th, but Hunter’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, is suggesting that he will not appear in private but only in a public hearing. This is a bad start for Hunter, who is a lawyer. ” As I noted at the time, that is not quite how subpoenas work. It is really not an invitation.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 13, 2023

On Wednesday former president Donald Trump sued his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen for more than $500 million in a federal court in Miami. If you are a lawyer, an architect, or even his dentist, you’d better get paid up front. If you are a woman and you get too close to him, you may need to watch your back.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Gymnastics president and chief executive, was fired from the federation and faces a felony charge of evidence tampering in the case. Scott Blackmun resigned under pressure as chief executive of the U.S.O.P.C.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2021

The memo states that the prosecutors reviewed the Mueller evidence and concluded that the evidence “examined by the Special Counsel could not, as a matter of law, support an obstruction charge under the circumstances. It turns out that staff had made that conclusion as did some of us from existing and controlling case law.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Yet at the press conference and Q & A following the arraignment District Attorney Alvin Bragg told the world that the 34 felony charges brought against defendant Trump were nothing more than the Manhattan office engaging in its everyday prosecution of “bread and butter” white-collar crimes.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

He was placed on the state’s sex-offender registry for life in 2008, when he pleaded guilty in state court – under pressure from his lawyer and family, he maintains – to a charge of “lewd and lascivious conduct.” The failure to comply with these requirements is a felony under Florida law. Clements v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

on four felony counts relating to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. 20, Trump lawyer D. Circuit; both that development and the court’s decision to review the scope of the federal obstruction law could lead to a postponement of that date. Trump was indicted earlier this year in Washington, D.C.,

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2024

Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. The last crime is particularly controversial because Bragg has no authority to enforce federal law and the Justice Department declined any criminal charge.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

According to the federal indictment against him, Hankison fired multiple shots into Taylor’s home, some of which traveled through a wall she shared with her neighbors, when there was “no longer a lawful objective justifying the use of deadly force.”

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MorneauLaw

MAY 20, 2023

Illegal Recordings One-party consent is not allowed by New Hampshire law, including telephone calls or in-person conversations. Not only will most recordings not be admitted as exhibits by a judge, but these recordings can also bring bigger consequences including criminal misdemeanor or felony charges. appeared first on Morneau Law.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Biden has ushered in a quiet revolution in what type of lawyers get selected for the federal judiciary. Over decades, presidents have mostly picked former prosecutors and corporate lawyers for top judgeships. and spent 21 years as a Felony District Court Judge. However, that should only be the start. Miriam Krinsky.

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ALPS

AUGUST 4, 2022

And she is the Director of Experiential Learning and a lecturer at the University of South Dakota School of Law. So I am a recent transfer to the law school, but I would say probably, more importantly, I’m a proud aunt, first-generation law student, and first-generation college student. We had a judge and I was his lawyer.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 21, 2021

. § 922(g) , the federal statute making it a crime for a convicted felon to possess a firearm, applies only to people who know they are “felons” within the meaning of that law. “The court would have to judge trial tactics — whether a particular lawyer would want to put that kind of evidence in?”

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2021

The Switzerland Office of the Attorney General (OAG) on Tuesday dropped a decade-old money laundering investigation exposed by Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died under suspicious circumstances in a Russian jail in 2009.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 5, 2023

” He insists that he will prove “attempts to violate state and federal election laws.” The indictment seems to address the lack of legal precedent with a lack of specificity on the underlying “secondary” felony. This is where math and the law meet.

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JURIST

APRIL 28, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v Renewable Fuels Association , a case regarding exemptions for small refineries from the Renewable Fuel Standards Program, and United States v Palomar-Santiago , which involves immigration law and noncitizen re-entry.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. We also have a much higher rate of plea bargain cases than the rest of the world: almost 20 percent higher than just about any other common law country.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2023

This bargain had apparently involved dropping two of three felonies, but had not included an agreement on the sentence. The prosecutor and then the defense lawyer offered their spins on the defendant’s criminal record. The helpless terror on his face as he turned to his lawyer has stayed with me for 25 years. A juvenile record.

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2021

Often it’s to ensure fairer and more responsive treatment at the hands of a justice system that otherwise offers them few other options, says a Rutgers University law professor. It depends on deception to “sidestep the law without changing the law.”. Such cases degrade trust in the system, Johnson argued.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 21, 2023

Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen has testified that Trump had him arrange the payout. Trump could be charged with misdemeanor falsification of records charges or felony charges related to campaign finance violations for the role the payout, falsely classified as an expense of the Trump Organization, may have played in the 2016 election.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

Some 80 percent of those facing felony charges cannot afford an attorney and are left to rely on a system of overworked public defenders. Meanwhile, the Legal Services Corporation, which funds civil legal aid across the country, found that in more than half of cases, people receive “only limited or no legal help” due to a lack of resources.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

He served Williams a summons ordering her to report to criminal court on a felony battery charge. She also said she didn’t know the facility security staff had been conducting investigations and determining whether patients had committed felonies that were then referred to the state’s attorney.

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