Trump on Trial: the Law and Public Opinion

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Donald Trump’s Prosecution In Washington D.C. Demonstrates That The Right To A Fair Trial Is An Illusion For The Average Defendant Accused…
In the Jan. 6 prosecution, Donald Trump will receive procedural rights not available to any other defendant. The question is, if Trump is being treated…
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Jon May
August 2023
Mark Meadows’s Motion for Removal: How NOT to Make a Legal Argument to a Court
The day after Mark Meadows was indicted in the Trump prosecution in Georgia, Meadows’s lawyers filed a motion to remove the state prosecution to federal…
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Jon May
Hundreds of thousands of men and women will suffer while we wait years for Congress and the Supreme Court to enact meaningful plea…
A Modest Proposal For Plea Bargaining Reform That Does Not Require New Legislation or a New Rule of Criminal Procedure Something Lawyers Can Work on…
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Jon May
CORRECTED ARTICLE: Why Jack Smith Should Agree to a Change of Venue in the Jan. 6 Prosecution
Sometime in the near future, Donald Trump’s attorneys will file a motion for a change of venue in the Jan. 6 conspiracy prosecution in Washington D.C…
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Jon May
July 2023
Mad King Lear’s Road To Acquittal: Why The Truth Of Trump’s Guilt Might Not Matter.
In 2018, the Pew Charitable Trusts published the results of a poll conducted by a bipartisan team of pollsters, Benenson Strategy Group and GS Strategy…
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Jon May
HOW TRUMP’S LAWYERS COULD WIELD THE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION PROCEDURES ACT (CIPA) AS A SWORD AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT’S ESPIONAGE ACT…
Experts on the disclosure of classified information--law professors, government officials, defense counsel, journalists, pundits—will tell you that CIPA…
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