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Salon.com
March 17, 2000
Alicia Montgomery |
Angels of justice Barry Scheck and Jim Dwyer talk about the Innocence Project, which has helped overturn eight wrongful convictions of death-row inmates.   |
ifeminists
April 30, 2007
Stephen Baskerville |
Duke Case Demonstrates Feminist "Justice" Decades of pursuing illusory, subjective, and politically defined "justice" have left Americans so incapable of distinguishing guilt from innocence that we are now inured to the most open injustice. |
Salon.com
June 12, 2000
Alan Berlow |
Bush's death penalty dodge The Texas governor has issued his first reprieve in a death penalty case; the question is whether he's seen the light or is just playing politics. |
Salon.com
January 2, 2001
David Lindorff |
The death penalty's other victims When prosecutors eliminate jurors opposed to capital punishment, they also weed out women and minorities and stack the deck against defendants... |
Reason
June 2004
Jarett Decker |
Criminal Representation U.S. courts may find the ban on "expert advice and assistance" as applied to defense lawyers too much to stomach. |
Salon.com
October 3, 2000
Alan Berlow |
Bush's big lie His "not me" excuse for the 145 executions in Texas on his watch relies on the kind of legal hairsplitting that would make the president proud... |
Reason
April 2004
Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
Reason
January 2004
Cathy Young |
Kobe's Rights: Rape, justice, and double standards The case of Kobe Bryant's alleged sexual assault raises some serious issues about the way the justice system treats rape complainants and defendants. |
Reason
December 2008
Radley Balko |
Innocence Denied As the science of DNA testing improves, labs can go further and further back in time to test even damaged and partially decomposed DNA evidence. |
ifeminists
April 26, 2007
Carey Roberts |
VAWA Casts a Long Shadow over the Duke Fiasco Here's the dirty little secret of D.A.s who prosecute sexual assault and domestic violence cases: many of the claims they pursue are as flaky as a pie crust and their chances of winning a jury conviction are slim. So why do they bother to go after the case? |
ifeminists
December 20, 2006
Wendy McElroy |
Immunity May Not Protect Duke Prosecutor Absolute immunity was never meant to suppress evidence, dilute police procedure, or violate civil rights. But when checks and balances within the system refuse to work, then it becomes a blank check on the use of power. |
Reason
March 2009
Radley Balko |
Attacking the Defense Civil libertarians often have misgivings about electing judges and prosecutors, but the risks associated with electing public defenders, as a handful of U.S. jurisdictions do, may be even greater. |
ifeminists
July 25, 2007
Carey Roberts |
Rarer than Rabies: The Legacy of Michael Nifong Michael Nifong's malfeasance has thrust the problem of prosecutorial abuse back into the public eye. |
Reason
June 2008
Radley Balko |
Soundbite: Freeing the Innocent A conversation with Craig Watkins, the first elected African-American district attorney in Texas history. |
CFO
February 1, 2006
Kate O'Sullivan |
The Best Defense In today's high-stakes legal environment, top white-collar attorneys are ready to defend the CFO. |
BusinessWeek
July 4, 2005
Mike France |
Courtroom Strategies On Trial Recent high-profile verdicts have prosecutors and defense attorneys rewriting their playbooks. |
Salon.com
July 4, 2001
Alan Berlow |
A Supreme Court shocker Sandra Day O'Connor's criticisms of the death penalty couldn't have come from a more unlikely source... |
ifeminists
October 22, 2006
Wendy McElroy |
In Duke Rape Case, Justice Relies on Jurors Those in charge of the legal system are damaging justice itself. It is time for average people to bring fairness and standards back into the courtroom. Certainly, those with authority over the Duke rape case cannot be trusted to do so. |
Salon.com
October 20, 2000
Amy Goldwasser |
The exonerated Wrongly convicted, they sat on death row for years. Extraordinary legal measures saved their lives. A new play confronts us with their nightmares... |
ifeminists
November 15, 2006
Wendy McElroy |
Nifong's Elected. Will 'Duke' Proceed? Mike Nifong, won the election for D.A. that has been so intimately linked to the Duke University rape case. He still faces two basic alternatives: dismiss the case or go to trial. What will happen now that he has won a full term? |
Reason
February 2005
Julian Sanchez |
Songs of Innocence The Justice for All Act of 2004, signed into law in October, grants federal convicts a right to have potentially exculpatory DNA evidence considered by courts. |
Reason
April 2009
Anderson & Jackson |
Putting Stars Behind Bars How did breaking sports rules become a federal offense? |
BusinessWeek
May 13, 2010 |
Former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn The former Hewlett-Packard chairman on fighting criminal fraud charges in 2006 after a company investigation of leaks to reporters |
Reason
July 2009
Radley Balko |
The Unrepentant D.A. Prosecutorial error in Santa Clara |
ifeminists
January 6, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
Prosecutor Grandstanding Undermines Justice If the goal in a rape trial, like any other law enforcement action, is to protect the innocent, the obvious solution is to name neither party until after a trial verdict. But police and prosecutors do not advocate this remedy. |
Salon.com
October 20, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Deadly lies George W. Bush and Al Gore both believe capital punishment deters violent crime. They're wrong... |
Reason
July 2002
Cathy Young |
License to Kill Men and women, crime and punishment. |
IDB America
August 2003
Paul Constance |
Your court or mine? A primer on differences between inquisitorial and adversarial trials |
Salon.com
May 17, 2002
Damien Cave |
Lock up the analysts and throw away the key An investor who followed expert advice lost $100,000. He wants vengeance, but history suggests he's not likely to get it... |
Reason
January 2003
Walter K. Olson |
Courting Stupidity Why smart lawyers pick dumb jurors. |
ifeminists
January 31, 2007
Wendy McElroy |
Continuing to Defame the 'Duke 3' as Rapists Every day it becomes clearer: the three Duke University students accused of kidnapping and sexual assault are innocent. Why does defamation of the accused continue? |
ifeminists
December 27, 2007
Carey Roberts |
Winners of the Coveted 2007 Award for Political Incorrectness The Duke lacrosse case represents an enduring failure of the American mainstream media. |
IDB America
March 2002
Daniel Drosdoff |
Prompt justice Venezuela undertakes a sweeping reform of its courts... |
Salon.com
February 2, 2001
Dawn MacKeen |
Don't try this at home Should kids be held responsible when their reenactment of TV shows ends in catastrophe? |
CIO
July 1, 2001
Beth Stackpole |
To Catch a Thief CIOs are moving integrated criminal justice systems to the top of the priority list. But even with political support, funding is problematic... |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
Words held hostage The national media reported on every detail of the dramatic "Texas Seven" prison escape -- except the fugitives' harsh criticism of the state's criminal justice system when they surrendered... |
CFO
April 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
Fraud Squad Federal investigators are on a crusade to elevate corporate misdeeds to criminal offenses. |
ifeminists
November 14, 2007
Carey Roberts |
Until Proven Innocent: Cultural Marxism at Duke How did a drug-addled stripper succeed in smearing the reputations of three Duke lacrosse players? That's the question that Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson pose in their recent bell-ringer book, Until Proven Innocent. |
ifeminists
January 10, 2007
Wendy McElroy |
In Duke Rape Case, Accused Fight Back The legal and moral travesty that is the Duke 'rape' case is winding down. The aftermath is commencing -- but what will it look like? |
BusinessWeek
April 28, 2011
Karen Weise |
U.S. Courts Face Backlogs and Layoffs Prominent lawyers warn that court budget cuts will harm the economy. |
ifeminists
October 25, 2007
David Heleniak |
Manhattan Prosecutors Declare War on Families A new law in New York states that after an arrest for domestic violence, the marriage between the victim and the perpetrator is officially over. |
Salon.com
February 8, 2000
Michael Kroll |
Executioner's swan song? Public support is weakening, but the death penalty will be slow to die. |
Reason
September 2004
Maia Szalavitz |
Dr. Feelscared U.S. drug warriors put the fear of prosecution in physicians who dare to treat pain. While the OxyContin panic does not seem to have deterred addicts, it has scared doctors. |
ifeminists
June 9, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
How to Form an Informed Opinion Like it or not, personal opinion of court cases has become part of the process of justice in America. How to make a judgment based more on facts and less on rhetoric. |
BusinessWeek
January 24, 2005
Woellert & France |
Corporate Cases: Time To Cut A Deal? A new ruling could empower white collar defendants -- until Congress rewrites sentencing rules. |
Reason
February 2003
Ronald Bailey |
Guilt Tip DNA testing and justice: Voters seem to agree that if the state is going to claim the awesome power to execute murderers, it should make every effort to insure that those it kills are in fact guilty. |
ifeminists
April 19, 2007
Carey Roberts |
Lynch Mob Fever at Duke University "Outrageous" is the word that comes to mind that describes what happened to the Duke Three, accused of gang-raping Crystal Gail Mangum. |
Salon.com
April 14, 2001
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Cincinnati's killer cops Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath... |
ifeminists
October 8, 2007
David Heleniak |
Nifong and HRES 590 The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on domestic violence, HRES 590, that portrays men as wife-beaters and disregards men who are victims. |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Ryan Flinn |
Social Media: A New Jury Selection Tool Web-savvy lawyers and legal consultants are scouring social media to investigate jurors' backgrounds and biases. |
