JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

New York nonprofit The Legal Aid Society (LAS) Thursday reported that data from the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) shows the successes of New York’s 2019 bail reform law. The post New York bail reform law effective, not linked to rise in crime, data shows appeared first on JURIST - News.

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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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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

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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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

MAY 13, 2021

A story in Houston has everything you would want in a legal controversy: a murder, a mysterious figure known only as “D”, a missing Bengal tiger named India and even Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame. The punishment is a misdemeanor charge and fines of $500 to $2,000. However, the penalties are notably higher.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Using a ten years’ study period, the research team compared the outcomes for Bronx defendants who were provided traditional public defender representation by the New York Legal Aid Society against those experienced by another group, represented by Bronx Defenders lawyers who were funded and organized to operate on a “holistic” model.

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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

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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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2024

I have long been a critic of the Bragg indictment as legally incomprehensible. For months, even liberal legal analysts have expressed dismay that Bragg’s indictment had not clearly stated what specific crime that Trump sought to conceal by allegedly misrepresenting payments to former adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

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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

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

AUGUST 3, 2021

The late New York Gov. However, his son, Andrew Cuomo, the current New York governor, moved today from presumed sinner but presumed assaulter. Putting aside the likelihood of impeachment proceedings, Cuomo is looking at immediate legal exposure. That could be important in litigating these claims.

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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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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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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In a surprise move that critics charge has political overtones, former New York Gov. 17 to face charges on a misdemeanor sex crime relating to an allegation that he “forcibly” touched a staff member. The charge, a Class A misdemeanor, carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail, reports The City.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. Newsom previously asked the U.S. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.

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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

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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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

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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The California federal court said the substantive legal issues in the District of Wyoming case were distinct from the procedural issues at issue in this action. Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. Based Fossil Fuel Companies Filed Motions to Dismiss New York City’s Climate Change Lawsuit. City of New York v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance. faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. Normally, criminal actions will cut off legal causation, though not always.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. On July 8, 2021, a jury in Minnesota state court found four activists guilty of aiding and abetting fourth degree criminal damage to property, a misdemeanor offense.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

The Tenth Circuit vacated and remanded the exemptions after EPA moved for vacatur and voluntary remand, conceding that it did not analyze determinative legal questions regarding the refineries’ eligibility for the extensions. NEW CASES, MOTIONS, AND OTHER FILINGS. City of New York v. City of New York v.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The troubles of more well-known figures like George Gascón in Los Angeles, Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, or Alvin Bragg in New York have made headlines. Following a spate of shootings in New York in recent months, the State Association of Chiefs of Police rallied in Albany, proposing amendments to roll back justice reforms.

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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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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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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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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

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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on how the Justice Department took five years to “resolve” the long-standing problem with Hunter Biden. The effort to “resolve Hunter” has been a concerted effort by the political and legal establishment. For a Biden, that apparently is the very profile of courage.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We recently discussed how figures like New York Times columnist Tom Friedman calling on people to move to Georgia to rig the vote in favor of a Democratic takeover of the Senate. These groups often have ample legal advisers who are aware of the calls for fraudulent registrations. Yet, Friedman is not a lawyer. 21-2-603.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

The Capitol riot continues in statehouses across the country, in a bloodless, legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor can try in court,” said a New York Times editorial this week. Of that charge, more than 160 people have already plead guilty and receive generally no jail time for the misdemeanor.

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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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