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Prosecution
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Food Safety News
Seminar asks: Do criminal prosecutions make food safer?
By Dan Flynn
After a string of successful prosecutions of food industry managers and executives, the defense bar is getting ready to bite back. The teeth are showing in the title of an…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Important review of the politics, power and personage surrounding US prosecutors
Main September 29, 2016Important review of the politics, power and personage surrounding US prosecutorsThis lengthy new Fusion article, headlined "America's Prosecutor Problem: Prosecutors are more powerful than judges -- but…
Sentencing Law and Policy
When someone focused on criminal justice empirics calls this the “Greatest. Graph. Ever.”…
Main September 27, 2016When someone focused on criminal justice empirics calls this the "Greatest. Graph. Ever."...via this tweet, I feel compelled to reprint it:Those who are familiar with Professor John…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Non-Adversary Prosecution”
Main September 7, 2016"Non-Adversary Prosecution"The title of this post is the title of this notable new paper by Eric Fish now available via SSRN. Here is the abstract: American prosecutors…
Sentencing Law and Policy
You be DOJ: after SCOTUS reversal, should former Virginia Gov Bob McDonnell be tried for corruption again?
Main September 6, 2016You be DOJ: after SCOTUS reversal, should former Virginia Gov Bob McDonnell be tried for corruption again?The "you-be-the-judge"-type question in the post is prompted by this Washington…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Highlighting who is using money to highlight (and try to change) prosecutors’ impact on criminal justice and its reform
Main August 31, 2016Highlighting who is using money to highlight (and try to change) prosecutors' impact on criminal justice and its reformThis new Politico article highlights the role being a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Criminal Prosecutions for Illegal Entry Up, Re-Entry Down
The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during the first eight months of FY 2016 the government reported 25,680 new criminal prosecutions for illegal entry, and 20,628…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Books: Fiction on Campus Sexual Assault by and about a Woman Prosecutor
By Tracy Thomas
ABA J, The Last Good GirlAuthor Allison Leotta has used her 12 years of experience as a federal sex-crimes prosecutor in Washington, D.C., to bring real-world issues into her fiction. Leotta…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrant of the Day: Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York (India)
Preetinder Singh “Preet” Bharara ia the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Earning a reputation of a "Crusader" prosecutor, his office has prosecuted prosecuted nearly 100 Wall Street executives,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Anyone eager to discuss what likely will be the highest-profile “declination” in federal criminal justice history?
Main July 5, 2016Anyone eager to discuss what likely will be the highest-profile "declination" in federal criminal justice history?Lots of smart people recognize and discuss in lots of ways the…