New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Marnie Berk and Heidi Kim | April 4, 2019
Perhaps confidence is eroding in the country's leadership to ensure that justice is meted out equally across the country, given the policy agenda in Washington and the criminal indictments of many of those responsible for its execution.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Michael Friedman | April 4, 2019
So, just why does the court system need an extra half a billion dollars to handle one third fewer cases?
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Andrea Hirsch | April 2, 2019
Bringing a post-conviction motion entails painstaking efforts, often requiring obtaining and examining a client's old records, finding and speaking with witnesses, and consulting with experts. Given the caps, therefore, taking on a post-conviction case under 18b often means working for less than minimum wage.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Joseph Bellacosa | April 2, 2019
This one graphic story ought to jump-start a renewed and broad education program, with a higher decibel of repeated notifications pointing to awareness and availability of help and resources to back it up.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Alexander Klein | April 2, 2019
Our society has countervailing interests—like reducing the pretrial suffering of innocent criminal defendants, and reducing the frequency with which people plead guilty simply because of that pretrial suffering.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Dorit Rubinstein Reiss and David I. Levine | March 28, 2019
One option New York State should consider is to allow tort suits–civil actions for damages–against schools which allow non-vaccinating parents to send their children when their actions substantially increase the risk of spreading the outbreak of this highly contagious disease.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Daniel Conviser | March 27, 2019
I am gratified that the Legislature and the Governor are on the verge of enacting landmark reforms to our state's pre-trial securing order system designed to significantly reduce the number of criminal defendants who are incarcerated before trial. But I also have significant concerns about the specific reforms now being negotiated.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Darren LaVerne and Jessica Weigel | March 26, 2019
The claim that early production of witness statements threatens to engender perjury and obstruction is based on the notion—inimical to our system of justice—that every person charged with a crime is guilty and likely to flout the law in order to escape punishment. A statute that rests on this presumption is, in 2019, long overdue for reform.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen and Gerald B. Lefcourt | March 25, 2019
What is most telling is a message deriving from this investigation for virtually every target vacillating over whether to accept his lawyer's knee jerk, playbook advice to remain silent.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Sol Wachtler | March 12, 2019
Justice Clarence Thomas, in his most recent concurring opinion, again raises the issue of whether “substantive due process” should be used in creating constitutionally protected “rights.”
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