The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

New York Gov. The proposal is part of a ten-point plan offered by Hochul to state legislative leaders in early March 2020 that also included expanding a law that allows judges to order mental-health treatment and making it easier to prosecute some gun-related offenses.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2024

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. It was so implausible as to be impossible.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 6, 2022

New York State would allow judges to set bail for a greater number of offenses and make it easier to hold repeat offenders pending trial as part of a larger state budget agreement expected to be passed this week, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Trump reposted a supporter’s “fantasy” of executing a citizen’s arrest of Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James. ” The right still exists for any felonies (or certain misdemeanors committed in the presence of the citizen). I have also criticized this New York law.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Thursday moved to vacate 188 misdemeanor convictions tied to eight New York City Police Department officers. New Yorkers must know that everyone is acting with the utmost integrity in the pursuit of equal justice under the law. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Foehner has been charged with seven felony counts under state law and one misdemeanor under New York City administrative law. His top charge is for felony possession of a weapon in the first degree , under a specific portion of New York State law addressing the possession of ten or more firearms.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 15, 2022

There are 36 licensed professions in New York State but massage therapy is singled out as the only one where licensure is enforced by local law enforcement rather than an industry-specific board. Members of law enforcement had sexually assaulted Song and threatened her with deportation during a previous sting.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 1, 2022

The two authors said the experimental partnership between BTTM and the District Attorney’s Office in Brownsville, a neighborhood in the New York borough of Brooklyn that suffers endemic problems of poverty, unemployment and violence, is intended to address many of the factors that contribute to recidivism.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

A “second chance law” in Indiana expunges criminal records after five to eight years. Meanwhile, New York City is poised to join three other cities in outlawing criminal background checks for residents seeking public housing. The city would join New Jersey, Seattle and San Francisco.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial and much awaited explanation of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the underlying alleged criminal conduct. It is not treated under federal law as a political contribution to yourself. As with James, Bragg saw it in Trump.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A New York woman, Sarah Espinosa, 22, has been arrested for a rather odd offense after crashing her car while under the influence. Reckless endangerment in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor. Every person violating this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Reckless driving is prohibited.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 7, 2022

Newly elected Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has told prosecutors in his office in a memo that they should ask judges for jail or prison time only for the most serious offenses — including murder, sexual assault and economic crimes involving vast sums of money — unless the law requires them to do otherwise, reports the New York Times.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

One of the threats faced by New York Gov. The New York Penal Law focuses on “forcible touching” cases. Forcible touching is a class A misdemeanor. That is the difference between the New York Attorney General report and a criminal case. Here is the provision : 130.52

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

Setting off what may be the country’s most high-profile clash over progressive prosecutor policies, Keechant Sewell, New York City’s new police commissioner, and newly-elected Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, are butting heads over their approaches to public safety.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

The researchers noted that even in states where reforms have registered some success–such as New York and California—reduction in community supervision populations has not substantially altered the implicit bias of a system that disproportionately affects poor people of color. New York City Considers Abolition.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 8, 2024

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 Crime Report

MARCH 21, 2023

Since then, numerous New York City sources have beefed up city security to address calls for protest made by the former president and his supporters. There has been no official news on the determination of the grand jury in the Manhattan DA’s investigation yet. That’s just common sense & good law enforcement.”

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In 2014, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of Chevron and held that Donziger could not seek to enforce or monetize the $9.5 She stated that “it seems only the proverbial two-by-four between the eyes” would get him to properly respect the law. billion judgment in the US.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The new office will support operations to seize firearms from dangerous people on the state’s database, the Armed and Prohibited Persons System. People with felony or violent misdemeanor convictions, restraining orders, or serious mental illness are all included on the list.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Two separate New York bills, the Stop the Violence in the Sex Trades Act and the Sex Trade Survivors Justice and Equality Act, aim to decriminalize sex work in significantly different ways, reports Law 360.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

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. The unsealed indictment of The People of the State of New York against Donald J. Not the president of Ukraine.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

The decision further indicated that longstanding firearms bans for felons were “presumptively lawful.” Raymond Holloway cannot possess firearms because of a misdemeanor conviction for driving under the influence. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Under 18 U.S.C. § Holloway v. Rosen and Folajtar v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

I have been critical of the indictment, which is reportedly based on a highly dubious use of a New York misdemeanor charge to revise a long dormant federal election law charge. In 2018 (yes, that is how long this theory has been around), I wrote how difficult such a federal case would be under existing election laws.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

While progressive prosecutor Larry Krasner handily won his bid for re-election in Philadelphia, voters in the conservative suburbs of Long Island elected tough-on-crime candidates who opposed New York State’s new bail reform law. The New York primaries were an early indication of voters’ go-slow mood towards reform.

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2021

The justice reform movement, particularly measures to eliminate cash bail, has put the safety of the New York City transit system at risk, argues Nicole Gelinas , a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. helped propel him into his appointment as New York police commissioner. Bratton’s success?felonies

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The Crime Report

MAY 26, 2021

A New York bill that would remove publicly available criminal records for most felonies and misdemeanor crimes after people have completed the terms of their punishments has garnered support from lawmakers, businesses and labor unions in the state, reports the Wall Street Journal. There are more than 2.3

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 19, 2023

Advocates gathered in Albany on Tuesday as New York lawmakers are set to introduce the latest version of the Clean Slate Act. Senate Bill S211 would seal conviction records automatically after three years of a completed sentence for misdemeanors and seven years for felonies. “Now what excuse do we have?

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the level of joy being expressed by many over the indictment of former president Donald Trump, including former FBI Director James Comey. Various professors and pundits have declared that this unprecedented use of New York law would be perfectly legal and commendable.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 30, 2021

Hawaii enacted a law last week that removes the statute of limitations for sex trafficking and distinguishes sex buyers from people selling sex. According to a state prosecutor, sex trafficking victims are often recruited from the state’s rural areas and transported to major cities like Boston and New York City.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2021

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s future remains uncertain following a report by the state attorney general’s office concluding that he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women throughout his recent political career — breaking state and federal laws, NBC News and The City NYC report. . ’ That’s not how it works.”

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Rubin of Bloomberg Law reports that “ Justices Probe Line on Home Protections in ‘Hot Pursuit’ Case.” Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “ Supreme Court considers giving police greater powers when pursuing suspects.”

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. In the last 17 months, 20 people have died in New York’s notorious jail facility on Rikers Island, the majority of whom were pre-trial detainees.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold a federal law which bans domestic abusers from owning guns In one of the most high-profile cases of this year. Further, what should qualify someone as “dangerous” in the eyes of the law? Current federal law 18 U.S.C.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2024

The controversial law came up in oral arguments over the access to the abortion pill in the Supreme Court. That 151-year-old law banned the mailing of materials that were deemed “obscene, lewd, [or] lascivious.” For some of us, this is a painful reminder that the law continues to linger on our books.

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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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The Crime Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

A 2020 paper from the New York-based Center for Court Innovation surveying California drug courts finding participation decreased statewide by 67 percent between 2014 and 2018. Or users can reach out to those in law enforcement for a referral. Only those who are accused of low-level, non-violent misdemeanors are eligible.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

For many of us, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has created a new school of abstract law where there is no need for objective meaning. Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. Pollock was famous for his painting drips on large canvases.

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