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Roughing the Protester? Activist Tackled by Rams Players Files Police Report and Threatens Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

Now, the activist with Direct Action Everywhere has filed a police report and is threatening legal action. PETA and other groups have called the activists “heroes” f or their actions but prosecutors are seeking convictions for felony burglary and theft charges. For a public offense committed or attempted in his presence.

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Florida Woman Faces Criminal Charges Of Practicing Without A License After Allegedly Disfiguring Patient

JonathanTurley

These cases often involve both criminal and tort cases. What was striking however was the charge with practicing medicine without a license (which was later elevated to a second-degree felony because of the patient’s disfigurement). That creates a dangerously fluid and subjective basis for criminal charge, even a misdemeanor.

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Houston Man Arrested As Police Continue Search For Missing Tiger

JonathanTurley

A story in Houston has everything you would want in a legal controversy: a murder, a mysterious figure known only as “D”, a missing Bengal tiger named India and even Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame. He is facing both criminal and potential tort liability for the tiger incident. However, the penalties are notably higher.

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Oberlin’s Revenge Mania: College Finally Runs Out of Appeals in Campaign Against Family-Owned Bakery

JonathanTurley

Instead, Amber and the Board will simply ask alumni to foot the bill for a legal effort that seems to become little more than a revenge fetish. Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. million payment in attorney fees.

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Victimization vs. Criminalization: The Trump Predicament 

The Crime Report

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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