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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Justice System

The Crime Report

The link between Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and criminal behavior is rarely acknowledged as a mitigating factor in U.S. jurisprudence , says a New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper. . According to the New York Law School study, racial minorities are more likely to have FAS.

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Calling New Patent Law Professors

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Every year, law schools advertise open faculty positions via a Faculty Appointments Register sponsored by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). This year’s list was just released, and lots of schools are looking to hire patent and IP professors. The new hire then starts work the following summer.

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

However, after the industrial revolution [and the rise of] the English working classes, there just weren’t enough police to keep whacking people over the head with the criminal law. Today, one out of every three adults in this country has a criminal or arrest history of some kind.

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Probation Puts Drug Offenders at Greater Risk of Returning to Prison: Paper

The Crime Report

The paper’s author, Jacob Schuman , an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University School of Law, argues that the system of supervised release has become a “drug-control network focused on public safety” rather than rehabilitation. See Also: New York Parole System Called ‘Reincarceration Machine’.

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Unfixable: Michael Cohen Faces a Reckoning of Biblical Proportions on Cross Examination

JonathanTurley

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in the New York Post on the first day of the examination of Michael Cohen. Thus far, however, Cohen has offered nothing new and, more importantly, nothing to make the case for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He is expected to start his cross examination today.

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Pandemic Surveillance and Racial Bias

The Crime Report

Black or Latinx individuals received some 92 percent of summons for COVID-19 protocol violations issued by the New York Police Department. “A Christian Powell Sundquist is a Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Law where he teaches Evidence, Criminal Law and Racial Justice courses.

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Of Pings and Prosecutors: The Spectacular Imposition of the Willis-Wade Testimony

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding controversy surrounding the disqualification of Fani Willis and Nathan Wade. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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