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New York Moves to Ease Arrest Disclosure Requirements by Would-Be Lawyers

The Crime Report

New York is moving to end a requirement that law school graduates report past arrests and police interactions short of convictions in order to become practicing attorneys, following a new report finding that excessive screening discourages people of color from applying to law school and the bar, reports Bloomberg News.

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

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial today in New York. No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the defendant was anyone other than Trump. However, two prosecutors, Carey R.

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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. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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Stormy Daniels Day: Alvin Bragg Lights Dumpster Fire in Manhattan

JonathanTurley

Below is my New York Post column on the unseemly scene in the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan as prosecutors used porn star Stormy Daniels to present lurid details on her alleged tryst with former president Donald Trump. In New York, the relevance or credibility of witnesses like Daniels is largely immaterial.

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The Closing: Trump’s Final Argument Must Be Clarity to Chaos in Merchan’s Courtroom

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the closing arguments scheduled for today in the trial of former President Donald Trump. Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. If any leg is missing, the stool collapses.

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“I See Dead People”: Bragg’s Case Against Trump Goes Paranormal

JonathanTurley

Fareed Zakaria noted “I doubt the New York indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump” Elie Honig has observed that, if brought in a less democratic district, “I would say there’s no chance of a conviction.” It was a pressure campaign directed at Bragg.

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Bragg and the Jackson Pollock School of Prosecution: Why the Trump Trial Could End With a Hung Jury

JonathanTurley

Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. Witnesses said that payments to lawyers are routinely recorded as legal expenses. He is currently in prison in New York , but was not called by the prosecution. They also need to point out other gaps.

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