JURIST

MAY 30, 2024

A Manhattan jury has found former US President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in his New York hush money criminal trial. Donald Trump is the first former US president to be convicted of a felony. His conviction will not disqualify him from running in the 2024 election.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 21, 2022

The current application for admission asks would-be lawyers whether they have, as an adult or juvenile, “been cited, ticketed, arrested, taken into custody, charged with, indicted, convicted or tried for, or pleaded guilty to,” a felony or misdemeanor. The Bar’s House of Delegates is scheduled to vote Jan.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 13, 2022

Criminal defense lawyer Dennis Riordan died two days ago at 73. ” Among many other honors, Riordan is one of only five attorneys inducted into the California Lawyers Association’s Appellate Lawyer Hall of Fame. ’ ‘He’d get a wry smile on his face.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ellis pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal , which reduced her charges from two felony counts to one. I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 14, 2022

Scott Bolden, Mosby’s lawyer, denied the charges and said that the investigation was part of a “historical attack on Black female prosecutors,” adding that Mosby had no intention of stepping down.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 29, 2022

Trump and John Eastman, a lawyer who had advised him on how to overturn the 2020 election, most likely had committed felonies, including obstructing the work of Congress and conspiring to defraud the United States, reports the New York Times. Federal Judge David O.

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The Crime Report

JULY 20, 2021

Hodgkins, the first person to have pleaded guilty to a single felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding before Congress by storming the Capitol on Jan. Hodgkins’s sentence was less than half of the 18 months the government had asked for but more than the request made by his lawyer, Patrick Leduc, for no time in prison.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2024

.” As written, these six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes but fail to allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission, i.e., the underlying felony solicited. Kimbrough, 300 Ga.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A suspended West Virginia lawyer who fled the country has pleaded guilty to a felony charge after being accused of overbilling for criminal defense…

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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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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As noted in our earlier blog post , the FDC Act contains an automatic escalation clause that promotes a second violation of the Act to a felony, even if there was no intent to defraud or mislead involved in the second violation.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In Multnomah County, the court system delayed more than 700 unrepresented misdemeanor cases and 800 unrepresented felony cases from February through mid-August.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The officers were charged with felony cruelty to persons and a misdemeanor charge of second-degree reckless endangerment, according to state police. Cox’s lawyers filed a $100 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the city of New Haven and the five officers involved in transporting him in September.

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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

But Mississippi judges demand that people pay for their liberty in 99% of felony cases, presumption of innocence be damned. Johnson claims that the system often assigns a lawyer at the start of a detainee’s case, but the attorney often only handles “preliminary matters and then disappears.”.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 5, 2021

They were particularly skeptical when John Coghlan, lawyer for Mississippi, was forced to concede that Tennessee’s wells do not enter into Mississippi’s territory at any point when they pump water out of the aquifer. The court pressed Allon Kedem, lawyer for Mr. Wooden, on just what an “occasion” would mean.

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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. The silence from lawyers in failing to condemn this improper campaign is deafening.

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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. The Hill ]. Reuters ]. *

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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. South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A federal district court in Manhattan found Lev Parnas, a former a ssociate of President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, guilty of six counts of US campaign finance law violations during the 2018 election. The judge indicated prior that the additional charges Parnas was facing would be handled separately.

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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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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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A People's Choice

JULY 30, 2020

While not all criminal charges are eligible for expungement, even if you have been charged with a felony, you do have options. Plus, you may not need to hire a lawyer to help with your petitions! Read on to learn more.

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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. Medrano’s conviction relied on statements that Medrano himself had made to police about his involvement in the planned robbery.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

ACLU South Dakota policy lawyer Libby Skarin says instead of building a new prison, the state needs to focus on criminal justice reform and treatment rather than punishing people for crimes that arise from addiction.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 8, 2024

Those are four words that no lawyer wants to hear from a judge in a hearing. But that was not the least of it for Justice Department lawyers fighting House subpoenas into the Biden corruption scandal. Reyes noted that the DOJ lawyers were “making a bunch of arguments that you would never accept from any other litigant.

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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 killing sparked cries of racist vigilantism on the part of the McMichaels and Bryan, who are white.

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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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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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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

If one of the spouses is convicted of a felony and jailed for more than one year, the other spouse can file for divorce, provided there was no sexual contact between them after the sentencing.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

This week, New York judges and lawyers appear eager to prove that the same is true for cases against Donald Trump. Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2021

The actual prosecutors at Main Justice found that not only would the allegations not meet the standard for obstruction of justice but that it would still be the case even if Trump was not the President of the United States.

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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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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. Steve Penny, the former U.S.A. Scott Blackmun resigned under pressure as chief executive of the U.S.O.P.C.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Experts from around the country say the court process is still influenced by outdated ideas about abuse and abusers — held not just by judges but by lawyers and social workers who assist victims. Absent convincing proof of a parent hitting a child, some family courts seem to view domestic violence as unrelated to parenting.

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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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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. Three-legged Stool A classic closing pitch by lawyers is to use a physical object like a three-legged stool. That is why many prosecution offices have conviction rates in the 80%-90% range.

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