Prosecutors
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Courts
Police And Prosecutors Allegedly Engaged In Scheme Of Using Sex And Drugs To Coerce Confessions
This took prosecutorial discretion way too far. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.02.22
* Florida is working on a “constitutional” carry thing. We need to stop the trend of just putting “bat” or “constitutional” in front of words like that to make a new product. [Tallahassee Democrat]
* Ever wonder about prosecutorial discretion? Here’s a primer. [WSJ]
* When worlds collide: Looks like the IP buffs are duking it out with the antitrust advocates again. [NEXT TV]
* Flexible or vague? A Virginian law about shorelines has homeowners swimming in uncertainty. [Bay Journal]
* Looks like Massachusetts lawmakers are hiding the ball when it comes to gambling. [Mass Live]
* Reminder: Vote on your top pick for Law Revue!!
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Legal Ethics
DA Becomes Victim Of 'Cancel Culture' Or Her Own 'Incompetence' Depending On Who You Ask
Budget cuts or mismanagement? That is the question. -
Courts
Prosecutor Works Two Jobs To Make Ends Meet, Kill People
Everything's bigger in Texas... including the two hats lawyers wear. -
Courts
The Prosecutor To Judge Pipeline Is Alive And Well
It's not the only way to become a judge, but it's pretty common. -
Government
Prosecutor Gets Demoted For Working As DoorDash Driver While On The Job
In the criminal justice system, late and cold food deliveries are especially heinous. -
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Politics
Harris Touts Prosecutorial Record As Readiness For Trump, Which Makes Me Queasy
She's leaning into her record... good luck with that. -
Courts
Prosecutorial Data Collection Is Coming To Connecticut
It's amazing we don't do this already, but let's start now. -
Crime
The Chickens Come Home To Roost: Linda Fairstein Gets Hers
Maybe her fall from grace will remind all prosecutors that sometimes even they can be wrong. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs: 04.14.19
* “How Tough-on-Crime Prosecutors Contribute to Mass Incarceration.” My review of Emily Bazelon’s new book, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (affiliate link). [New York Times Book Review]
* When it comes to prosecutors, as former prosecutor Joel Cohen explains, it’s all about discretion. [New York Law Journal]
* Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.) defends Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins’s exercise of her prosecutorial discretion — and argues that Thomas Turco’s criticisms of Rollins are unfair. [Boston Globe]
* Another ex-prosecutor, Quinn Emanuel partner Alex Spiro, is representing tennis star Naomi Osaka in the “repugnant” lawsuit filed against her by her former coach. [Tennis365]
* Former federal prosecutors, many of them now partners at Biglaw firms, represent more than half of the defense lawyers in Operation Varsity Blues, aka the college admissions scandal. [Big Law Business]
* High-stakes litigation is just one of many factors contributing to Biglaw’s robust profit margin these days — hovering around 40 percent, its highest value in almost 30 years, according to Madhav Srinivasan of Hunton Andrews Kurth. [Law.com]
* Ronald Collins interviews Joan Biskupic about her latest judicial biography, The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts (affiliate link). [SCOTUSblog]
* And speaking of SCOTUS, Will Baude believes that the death penalty “is justifiable and constitutional” — but argues that the Court has not acquitted itself well in its recent handling of capital cases. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 10.21.18
* Orin Kerr offers his thoughts on the Allison Jones Rushing controversy (aka how young is too young to be a federal judge). [Reason / Volokh Conspiracy]
* If President Trump and Senate Republicans are packing the courts with conservatives, then it’s time for Democrats to pack back, according to Michael Klarman. [Take Care]
* Howard Wasserman offers some insights into the recent dismissal of Stormy Daniels’s defamation lawsuit against Trump. [PrawfsBlawg]
* And while we’re on the subject of media law, Gerard Magliocca has an interesting observation about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the right of publicity. [Concurring Opinions]
* Speaking of RBG, Jonathan Adler argues that she could learn a thing or two from her newest colleague, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, when it comes to hiring law clerks. [Bench Memos / National Review]
* Joel Cohen raises an intriguing question about prosecutors: to what degree are they required to fight their own biases? [New York Law Journal]
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Crime
Why The Brooklyn D.A.'s Office Is Way Cooler Than Manhattan's
Brooklyn is addressing some big policy issues relating to criminal justice in efforts to make the system more fair to people of color and immigrants in their community. -
Courts
St. Louis Prosecutor Refuses To Accept Criminal Cases From 28 Cops
This is an example of a person willing to do what is necessary. -
Government
New York Prosecutors' Ethics To Be Overseen By New Commission?
This will only happen if Governor Andrew Cuomo signs the bill into law today. -
Crime
'Evilest White Woman On Earth' Is A Prosecutor, Of Course
You'd think wrongly convicting a person and secretly dating the judge on the case would mean you can't be a prosecutor anymore. -
Crime
New Orleans Is Letting Prosecutors Listen To Inmates' Phone Calls To Their Lawyers
I'm not an expert in the Napoleonic Code, but this should be entirely illegal. -
Small Law Firms
Prosecutor Gets Snippy With Defense Team In Cosby Sexual Assault Case
Lawyers say the darndest things. -
Crime
Disbarred Former Prosecutor Gets Jail Time For Forging Judges' Signatures On Phony Wiretap Orders
Talk about bad judgment. The blatant abuse of power cost her hard.