Criminal Law Tag

Charges Dropped Against Jordan Williams, NYC Man Accused in Stabbing Death of Homeless Man on Subway

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 29, 2023 31 Comments

"Under New York law, a person is justified in using deadly physical force when they reasonably believe it is necessary to use such force to defend themselves or others from imminent use of deadly or unlawful physical force"...

Caroline Ellison’s Diary Part of the Mountain of Evidence in Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Fraud Case

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 27, 2023 18 Comments

SBF's former girlfriend is expected to be an important witness in the fraud trial this fall...

Soros-Backed St. Louis Prosecutor Kim Gardner Resigning Office, Effective June 1st

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 05, 2023 28 Comments

"For years, Gardner's office has faced criticism for mishandling cases and office dysfunction."...

Daniel Perry’s Murder Conviction Was Legally Sound

Posted by Andrew Branca on April 09, 2023 431 Comments

This past Friday, April 7, 2023, Daniel Perry was found guilty in the 2020 murder of Garret Foster during a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin.

Second Molotov Cocktail Lawyer Sentenced to One Year and a Day in Prison

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 28, 2023 25 Comments

“You’re not one of the oppressed. You’re one of the privileged”...

Manslaughter Charge Against Alec Baldwin in Shooting Death of Halyna Hutchins Fits The Known Facts

Posted by Andrew Branca on January 22, 2023 69 Comments

Nothing during the 13 months since that event has changed my fundamental conclusion that a proper application of New Mexico law to the apparent facts in this case leads to anything but an act of reckless (involuntary) manslaughter on the part of Baldwin—ultimately the charge...

Joy Behar Falsely Claims the DA Prosecuting Alec Baldwin is a Republican

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 21, 2023 28 Comments

"I’m only saying this because Alec Baldwin is a target for Republicans. They cannot stand him, OK? I’m just saying"...

Alec Baldwin Charged With Two Counts of Involuntary Manslaughter in Movie Set Shooting

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 20, 2023 118 Comments

"each carry a maximum sentence of 18 months in jail"...

NYC DA Offers Cushy Plea Deals To “Pro-Palestinian” Thugs Who Assaulted Jews on City Streets

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 13, 2023 24 Comments

Plea lets Waseem Awawdeh, who allegedly beat Joseph Borgen with crutches, plead to a lesser charge and serve 6 months instead of the 3½-15 years he currently faces....

Houston Taqueria Shooting: Legally Justified Killing or Simply an Execution?

Posted by Andrew Branca on January 10, 2023 316 Comments

Last Thursday, on January 5, 2023, 30-year-old career violent criminal Eric Eugene Washington made the unwise decision to commit a late-night armed robbery of a Houston taqueria, threatening customers and workers with an apparent pistol (later discovered to be a fake gun).

Dem Mega Donor Crypto King Released From Jail On Personal Recognizance Bond

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2022 40 Comments

Sam Bankman-Fried released on $250 million bond secured by his parents' $4 million home, not $250 million cash bail as originally reported....

Still Makes No Prosecutorial Sense For Feds To Have Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested On Eve of Congressional Testimony

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2022 30 Comments

The reasons why general citizens should not talk to the police are the flip side of why the feds should have wanted to have Dem Crypto King to testify to congress. There was zero upside for Dem Crypto King, and only upside for the feds....

“FBI Had No Legally Valid Cause” For Mar-a-Lago Raid and Warrant “Had No Legal Basis,” Argue Top Lawyers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2022 65 Comments

David Rivkin and Lee Casey in WSJ: "if the Justice Department’s sole complaint is that Mr. Trump had in his possession presidential records he took with him from the White House, he should be in the clear, even if some of those records are classified."...

Group Working to Recall Los Angeles DA George Gascón Says it Now Has Required Number of Signatures

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 18, 2022 16 Comments

Now that San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin has been successfully recalled, all attention is turning to Los Angeles DA George Gascón, who is essentially cut from the same cloth as Boudin. The people organizing the effort to recall Gascón are now saying that they have collected the necessary number of signatures to move forward with their plan.

Washington State Supreme Court Imposes Different Standards On Police “Seizures” For “BIPOC” and Whites

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2022 105 Comments

Two identical factual circumstances of a police encounter maybe result in different judicial results depending on whether the person is BIPOC or not-BIPOC (i.e. white). This is a good example of how social justice and Critical Race Theory verbiage and language accelerated by the BLM...

Grand Rapids Officer Charged with Murder in Shooting of Suspect Who Seized Control of Taser

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 10, 2022 43 Comments

In what appears to be yet another politically-motivated prosecution of a white police officer who lawfully defended himself from a violent, non-compliant black suspect, Grand Rapids Officer Christopher Schurr has been charged with second-degree murder over the April 4, 2022 shooting death of Patrick Lyoya, according to FOX News. I previously wrote about this case right here at Legal Insurrection back in April:

Reminder: Fighting a Cop for Control of Taser Will Likely Get You Lawfully Shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LOyqy6vBbM

Gunman Arrested Outside Home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh Charged With Attempted Murder, Found Address “On The Internet”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2022 48 Comments

Criminal Complaint: Nicholas John Roske found Kavanaugh's address "on the internet," took a taxi to his house because "he was upset about the leak of a recent Supreme Court draft decision regarding the right to abortion as well as the recent school shooting in Uvalde,...

San Francisco: Soros-Backed Socialist DA Chesa Boudin Overwhelmingly Loses Recall Election

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 08, 2022 38 Comments

A shocking 60% voted to recall Boudin. It wasn't even close. Is this a sign that even leftists are fed up with their own policies?...

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