JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Six years ago, I wrote a column questioning charges in the Flint Michigan lead tainted water case as having more of a political than legal basis. After the initial press coverage dissipated, prosecutors quietly settled for misdemeanor pleas with key defendants. Smith was also hit with criminal allegations.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

. “We don’t have strong enough laws,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald told reporters at a Dec. You’re not legally required to store your weapon in a safe manner.” That law doesn’t require the gun purchaser to use the safety device sold with their firearm. Child Access Prevention Laws in 29 States.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 1916, at a single Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan, workers also reported almost 200 severed fingers and 75,000 other injuries. As a society, we eventually decided that faster access to Model Ts and Mustangs didn’t justify the horrific harms of the assembly line, and we passed laws and filed lawsuits to make the process safer.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Congress has failed to pass police reform, there has been disappointing backlash against racial equity efforts, and injustice continues to permeate our criminal legal system. And while we must revisit decades-long sentences, addressing misdemeanors, which make up more than 80 percent of all criminal cases, is also critical.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

A very bold and impressive broad-gauged indictment that few, if any legal pundits, saw coming. Turns out the payments of hush money to at least two women—misdemeanor offenses—were not really what these indictments were all about. Ergo, there were no misdemeanor charges, only first-degree felonies.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

However, this was a legal dispute on the scope of her discretion that was resolved by the state courts. It does not use “high crime or misdemeanors.” ” Also treason is not a state offense so the identical standard of “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes or Misdemeanors” would not work on the state level.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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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