Pace University Law Professor Bennett Gershman wrote an article for The Daily Beast last month about consideration the state of New York is giving to creating a Commission of Prosecutorial Conduct which would have the authority to investigate and discipline…
Month: September 2015
2015
Category: Criminal Law | Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
In 2012, the U.S. Census Bureau reported (“Sharing a Household”) that the number of shared family households in this country increased by 11.4 percent between 2007 and 2010. A majority of shared households consist of adult children, and their families,…
2015
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 249, was enacted as Division E of the National Defense Act for Fiscal Year 2010. More commonly known as the federal hate…
2015
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct
Society has an undeniable, and sometimes unrealistic, expectation that wrongdoers will be apprehended, given a fair trial, found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and sentenced for their crimes. When this process works the way it should, the integrity of our…