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

JUNE 3, 2021

was arrested and charged with rape in March, reigniting a discussion throughout the state about how the justice system deals with so-called young offenders, reports the New York Times. Judges, juvenile justice experts and lawyers say arrests traumatize children, ensnare them in the legal system and increase their chance of recidivism.

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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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JonathanTurley

APRIL 25, 2024

However, today will be the first time that a column becomes a legal matter for contempt. On April 15, Trump quoted my New York Post column from the day before titled “A serial perjurer will try to prove an old misdemeanor against Trump in an embarrassment for the New York legal system.”

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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 Forcible touching.

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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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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. The bill would make selling sex legal but still prosecute patrons and pimps.

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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 The post Lawyer who sued Chevron is sentenced to six months for contempt of court case appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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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.

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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. Trump faces serious legal threats in the ongoing Mar-a-Lago investigation. Although it may be politically popular, the case is legally pathetic.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. Bragg has achieved the same effect by regenerating a dead misdemeanor on falsifying business records as 34 felony counts. It was not Trump who listed payments as legal expenses or retainer payments.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

With a dubious legal theory, the testimony has only magnified the criticism of the prosecution as parading sensational rather than material evidence before the jury and the public. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is losing even CNN hosts and legal analysts. The cross examination was devastating.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the release of the indictment against former President Donald Trump. Yes, the man who has routinely knocked down felony crimes to misdemeanors — or dismissals — actually suggested that he had no alternative but to charge Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Raymond Holloway cannot possess firearms because of a misdemeanor conviction for driving under the influence. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Corlett , Robert Nash and Brandon Koch applied for New York licenses to carry firearms outside the home. Rosen and Folajtar v. Holloway v. 20-794. . §

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the closing arguments scheduled for today in the trial of former President Donald Trump. There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. But what is that second crime?

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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

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. . Photo by Welington Abraham Trump via Flickr.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 30, 2024

The instructions in the case raised concerns that the deliberations could become a legal version of a canned hunt, where the prey is trapped in a cage or fenced in areas to be dispatched. In New York, the defense must go first, giving the government free rein over its closing with no risk of contradiction from the defense.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expected indictment against former President Donald Trump. It is an effort to reanimate a long dead legal claim against Trump, but could reanimate his presidential campaign. Locals in New York will be thrilled, but will the rest of the country join the pitch-folk carrying mob?

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

According to the New York Times , one of the six criminal counts Rittenhouse faces is possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18. Black says he did not say anything to dissuade him from bringing it, according to the New York Times. . Legal Claim to Self Defense? . He has pleaded not guilty.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the continued drama in Manhattan over the possible Trump indictment. Donald Trump remains Bragg’s political manifest destiny even if there is no legal landfall in sight. First, it expired as a chargeable misdemeanor after two years — and that was roughly five years ago.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2024

Here is the column: Former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor ) Nikole Hannah-Jones declared recently that “ all journalism is activism.” Now, the Biden administration has arrested Baker on four misdemeanor charges linked to his entry into the Capitol on that day. She was acquitted.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Share This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. To highlight the domestic violence implications of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. A preview of the case is here.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2023

They also would have to deal with a charge brought seven years after the alleged offense, despite a two-year statute of limitations for the underlying misdemeanors (or a five-year period for a felony). Michael Cohen worked for Trump The star witness is one of the most repellent figures in New York.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. Conversely, New York charged a woman for calling police in a racially charged incident in Central Park. In 2009, the New York courts ruled that Metro workers were not legally required to assist a woman being raped at a station.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Loki factor was evident in the press conference this week when Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked about the rising lawlessness seen in major cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: “Does the president still think that crime is up because of the pandemic?”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 25, 2022

On Thursday, the court issued its first major ruling on the Second Amendment in over a decade , striking down a New York gun regulation and holding that the right to bear arms extends outside the home. Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding scandal surrounding the Hunter Biden investigation. Even CNN legal analysts are now calling the handling of the investigation at the Justice Department an “ unholy mess.” The reason for his change at Justice, according to the New York Times?

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2021

In some examples cited in the paper, a Virginia defendant in Virginia charged with transporting marijuana pleaded guilty to trafficking a different type of drug altogether; a New York defendant charged with animal cruelty pleaded guilty to trespassing even though no trespassing was involved.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

According to the Seattle Times , Inslee declared that “it should not be legal in the state of Washington for elected officials or candidates for office to willfully lie about these election results.” ” He would make such comments a gross misdemeanor subject to incarceration. What does that even mean?

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Below is a longer version of my column in the New York Post on the leaking of the interviews of former counsel to Donald Trump. Powell pleaded to misdemeanors for a deal that avoids jail time and preserves her ability to resume the practice of law. Jamie Raskin (D-Md).

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2024

Notably, Weiss said that it was Hunter Biden’s legal team that inexplicably shut down negotiations by playing hardball in seeking to preserve the original agreement: “The government proposed changes to the agreements that addressed only the issues identified during the hearing. Motion at 13.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

Given Bragg’s failure to even state the key offense allowing him to bring these 34 felonies, Merchan should have scheduled a hearing on the threshold legal questions in two weeks — not schedule all motions to be heard in December. That, apparently, is left to the suspension of disbelief. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post in response to the attack this week by Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe. There was a time when legal disagreements could be passionate but not personal. I was singled out on this occasion for Tribe’s latest personal attack because I voiced a legal opinion different from his own.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

Throughout the preceding two months, Trump had been engaged in an obsessive campaign to marshal allies, legal theories, and media support behind a false narrative of a stolen election. The riot Trump summoned prevented that certification and delayed the execution of Congress’s legal duty in respect to presidential elections.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2024

The history of the Act, and its namesake, remains a blot on our legal system. 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.” Below is my column in the Hill on the return of the Comstock Act to the national debate.

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