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Prosecution
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Sentencing Law and Policy
The DOJ went crazy on Georgia
Main April 10, 2007The DOJ went crazy on GeorgiaThe DOJ went crazy on Georgia, looking for a soul to steal, DOJ was in a bind and way behind (though still…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The crisis in criminal justice funding
Main March 27, 2007The crisis in criminal justice funding The National Law Journal has this important new article entitled "Public Defenders, Prosecutors Face a Crisis in Funding." The story focuses…
ImmigrationProf Blog
More on US Attorney Firings and Immigration
During a congressional showdown over undocumented immigration last spring, Justice Department officials found themselves scrambling to answer Republicans' pointed questions about low immigration-related prosecution rates by U.S. attorneys on the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Prosecutions a Part of the Mass US Attorney Firings?
Blog readers no doubt have been deluged with news stories about the controversy over the Bush Administration's mass firings of U.S. Attorneys allegedly for partisan political reasons. But, as with…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Context-free ruminations on the federal death penalty
Main March 15, 2007Context-free ruminations on the federal death penaltyIn today's New York Times, US District Judge Frederic Block has this interesting op-ed discussing the federal death penalty. The whole…
Sentencing Law and Policy
What’s the real-world fall-out of the US Attorney purge?
Main March 13, 2007What's the real-world fall-out of the US Attorney purge?As detailed in this New York Times article, the "White House was deeply involved in the decision late last…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Request for hearings on the border agent case
Main March 1, 2007Request for hearings on the border agent caseAccording to this (partisan?) news report, "[t]hirty-eight Republican congressmen have written to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi asking for…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The federalization of the death penalty
Main February 3, 2007The federalization of the death penaltyThe Wall Street Journal has this weekend piece on the increased application of the federal death penalty. Here are snippets:At a time…
The Right Coast
Courts of Politics or Courts of Justice?Maimon Schwarzschild
When the court systems become politicized, does it encourage politicized prosecutions? There's no direct connection between a habit of judicial overrreaching when making public policy, and politicized criminal prosecutions. But…
The Right Coast
The Duke Rape CaseMike Rappaport
Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson recount the absurdity and outrageousness of the Duke Rape prosecution. It is really quite shocking and many people should be very ashamed. To this day,…