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Sentencing Law and Policy
Proof nobody can be trusted in the criminal justice system
Main September 24, 2008Proof nobody can be trusted in the criminal justice systemJoseph Stalin supposedly said, "I trust no one, not even myself." Though few should consider Stalin a great…
PropertyProf Blog
Atuahene on Property Rights and Past Theft
By propertyprof
Bernadette Atuahene (Chicago-Kent) has posted Things Fall Apart: The Illegitimacy of Property Rights in the Context of Past Theft on SSRN. Here's the abstract:In many states, past property theft is…
Legal Profession Blog
Grave Injustice
An attorney who had been suspended for two years in Oregon received a lighter six-month suspension in Massachusetts. One of the misconduct findings related to theft charges where the attorney…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Securities Lawyer Charged with Stealing Client’s Funds
Martin E. Weisberg, a former partner at Baker & McKenzie, was charged in federal court in Brooklyn with stealing over $1 million from an unidentified corporate client's escrow account. He…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
In the News
By Ellen Podgor
U.S. Attorney's Office - Oregon, Press Release - Former Director of Accounting Services at Oregon Department of Education Admits Stealing $925,000 Government Investigators Recover $750,000 Jason, Cato, Pittsburgh Tribune Review…
China Law Blog
Jury Nullification With Chinese Characteristics
By Dan Harris
Stan Abrams of the always excellent China Hearsay blog just posted [link no longer exists] on the decision of a Guangzhou court to dramatically reduce a verdict of life imprisonment…
Legal Profession Blog
Theft Of Foundation Funds Leads to Resignation
The New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department accepted an attorney's resignation and ordered that he be struck from the rolls. The attorney was under investigation for conduct…
Sentencing Law and Policy
You make the call: what is a just and effective sentence for Sister Barbara Markey?
Main April 1, 2008You make the call: what is a just and effective sentence for Sister Barbara Markey?Since most judges likely have no experience sentencing nuns, I hope readers will…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Nonprofit CEO Gets Six Months Jail and Probation: Nonprofit Ethics Erode Nationwide
According to the Houston Chronicle, Texas state court this week sentenced the former director of the Sickle Cell Association of the Texas Gulf Coast to six months in jail and…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
In the News
By Ellen Podgor
WSJ - Ex-Student Finance Chief Gets One-Year SentenceDOJ - Former Commissioner of the Virgin Islands Department of Health Sentenced for Theft of Government Funds** Legal Profession Blog - What do…