The Crime Report
JANUARY 21, 2022
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.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 11, 2021
A groundbreaking study by the Rand Corporation and the University of Pennsylvania Law School makes this point. This isn’t the tail wagging the dog; this tail has swallowed the dog. I’ve spent nearly 50 years defending criminal cases, and I don’t expect an Armistice to be declared any time soon.
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JonathanTurley
APRIL 29, 2024
After all, the base charge is a simple misdemeanor under a New York law against falsifying business records. However, it really did not matter, because the misdemeanor has been as dead as Dillinger for years. The dead misdemeanor was shocked back into life by claiming that it was committed to conceal another crime.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 1, 2024
As the founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock set about his work of “saving the young from contamination” and “Devil traps.” The two women had committed the offenses of not only setting up their own brokerage house in New York, but also publishing a newspaper openly discussing sexual freedoms.
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
He was a deputy commissioner at the New York Police Department (NYPD) in the early 1990s, when violent crime rates began to plummet. More recently, as president of John Jay College at the City University of New York from 2004 to 2016, he helped to spread the focused-deterrence model across the country. Later, at the U.S.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
Moreover, it is not clear how transporting migrants who entered the country illegally to another state is a violation of law. New York City recently sent migrants to other cities without their permission or prior notice; Democratic leaders in El Paso, Texas, have also arranged such transports.
JonathanTurley
MAY 13, 2024
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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