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5 Jan 2016, 5:01 am by SHG
  Berman acknowledges this cottage industry, as well as its flaws. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 12:49 pm by Bill Otis
 I want to note with thanks Doug Berman's take on the article discussed in his blog, in which he, though a death penalty agnostic, observes that one can be a retentionist without being a barbarian or a dunce:This article does an effective job summarizing how and why the death penalty in the US continues to be subject to attacks that could lead to its eventual demise. [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 7:09 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Doug Berman has this post at Sentencing Law & Policy, excerpting an A.P. story. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 12:19 pm by Bill Otis
 Doug Berman, among others, has consistently said that prison is indeed criminogenic; I take the opposite view. [read post]
13 Dec 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
"Berman makes clear that, today, voter suppression is a national problem, not confined to the Old South, that affects numerous groups thought to favor the Democrats—not only blacks but also Hispanics, college students, and the poor more generally. [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 2:22 pm by Ben Vernia
On December 3, the Department of Justice announced that during 2015, it had recovered more than $3.5 billion under the False Claims Act. [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 6:44 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Recently the Wall Street Journal published a column on "The Injustice of the Plea Bargain System," which Doug Berman excerpted here for non-subscribers. [read post]
6 Dec 2015, 9:22 pm by Bill Otis
Doug Berman, and none by any of his numerous commenters. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 5:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
So Grits was delighted that Doug Berman pointed out her new article, "Negotiating Accuracy: DNA in the Age of Plea Bargaining," in which she declared that, "we should recognize plea bargaining as a source of wrongful conviction in its own right, and add it to the canonical list of wrongful conviction sources such as mistaken eyewitness testimony, lying informants, and bad forensics. [read post]
1 Dec 2015, 7:49 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Doug Berman has this post at Sentencing Law & Policy, excerpting another post headlined, "Drug offenders make up nearly one-third of prison admissions. [read post]
29 Nov 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
"Notable Nonfiction of 2015" from The Washington Post includes many legal and legal history books such as Melvin Urofsky's Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue (Pantheon), Linda Horseman's Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World (Harper), and Will Haygood's Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the… [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
" Making the list are...Melvin Urofsky's Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue (Pantheon), Ari Berman's Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (Farrar Straus Giroux), Will Haywood's Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America (Knopf), Linda Horseman's Sisters in Law: How… [read post]
20 Nov 2015, 2:00 am by Jeff Welty
Berman takes Lynch’s view, and suggests further that looking for a “Ferguson effect” on police may be looking in the wrong place. [read post]
20 Nov 2015, 2:00 am by Jeff Welty
Berman takes Lynch’s view, and suggests further that looking for a “Ferguson effect” on police may be looking in the wrong place. [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 12:49 pm by Fabrizio di Piazza
In GWorks Interviews: Ari Berman, Berman discusses his background; covering voting rights; the history of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), culminating in Shelby County v. [read post]
18 Nov 2015, 6:01 pm by Andrew M. Ironside
Yesterday, noting this Dallas Morning News article on his blog Sentencing Law and Policy, Professor Douglas Berman asked whether it's appropriate for lawyers to cease representing a death row client because existing "political realities" make a stay of execution extremely... [read post]
15 Nov 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
This week The New Rambler has a review of Ari Berman's Give Us the Ballot (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 6:35 am by Jim Sedor
National: Only Three States Score Higher Than D+ in State Integrity Investigation; 11 FlunkCenter for Public Integrity – Nicholas Kusnetz | Published: 11/9/2015 A new report found that in state after state, open records statutes are filled with exemptions, and part-time legislators and agency officials engage in conflicts-of-interest and close relationships with lobbyists while regulators struggle to enforce laws. [read post]
12 Nov 2015, 8:58 pm
" Mark Berman of The Washington Post reports that "Federal appeals court reverses ruling that said California's death penalty system is unconstitutional. [read post]