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The Right Coast
Bonfire of the FacultiesMaimon Schwarzschild
The Duke "rape" case is not only an example of prosecutorial misconduct and demagoguery, as Mike notes: it has also been facilitated, to put it gently, by the poisonous "race-gender-class"…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Comments on the McNulty Memo
By Ellen Podgor
What have others been saying about the McNulty Memo -ABA Jrl E- Report hereAlan Childress, Legal Profession Blog hereBusiness Week Online hereCarrie Johnson, Washington Post hereDale Oesterle, Business Law blog…
Legal Profession Blog
Joy on Systemic Prosecutorial Misconduct
Posted by Alan ChildressPeter Joy (Wash. U.) has posted on SSRN the article, "The Relationship Between Prosecutorial Misconduct and Wrongful Convictions: Shaping Remedies for a Broken System." It is also…
Legal Profession Blog
“Send A Message!”: Improper Closing Arguments by Prosecutors
Interesting post, here, over on Concurring Opinions by Wake Forest prof and former AUSA Jennifer Collins. She is collecting inappropriate and outlandish arguments some prosecutors have used in closing. A…
Sentencing Law and Policy
What’s wrong with urging a sentencing jury to “send a message”?
Main November 27, 2006What's wrong with urging a sentencing jury to "send a message"?Thanks to a listserve posting by Eugene Volokh, I learned the Kentucky Supreme Court recently issued an…
Legal Profession Blog
Follow Up to Hricik Post on Facial Prosecutorial Misconduct
Posted by Alan ChildressOver on Legal Ethics Forum, David Hricik (Mercer) had previously posted, in "Naked Prosecutors, Oh My!," about a Ohio prosecutor arrested for wandering around his building without legal…
The Right Coast
Towards an academic theory of justice Tom Smith
And now our peripetetic tour of American justice takes us to Duke University, where, I can only say it appears, an insane prosecutor is engaged in one of the more…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Specter Tells of Upcoming Legislation to Stop Thompson Memo Practices
By Ellen Podgor
Senator Arlen Specter spoke at the NACDL-Georgetown White Collar Crime Luncheon on September 14. Blogging on that speech for the White Collar Crime Prof Blog is Jack King of the…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Prosecutors Under the Gun
By Ellen Podgor
Assistant United States Attorneys have come in for criticism in two recent opinions regarding the veracity of their statements to courts. In United States v. Stein, the prosecution of 16…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
So Much For a Unified Front
By Ellen Podgor
While the former KPMG partners and employees scored a victory when the U.S. District Court found that the government pressured the firm into cutting-off attorney's fees and giving them an…