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8 Dec 2013, 11:14 am by Jeff Gamso
  But for all you'll hear about reconciliation and forgiveness, and for all I imagine he'd deny it, in practice our system reflects the attitudes of Bill (hang-'em-high) Otis a whole lot more than it does the attitudes of Helen Prejean. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 2:11 pm by Cindy Cohn and Trevor Timm
  American patriot James Otis Jr. argued against the “hated writs” but lost his case in the British courts. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 1:20 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Bill Otis has this post at Crime & Consequences discussing a recent article in "Engage," the magazine of the Federalist Society, and concluding that the authors "are correct in pegging me as at least a mild skeptic about the overcriminalization... [read post]
1 Nov 2013, 9:01 am by By Andrew Lustigman
Backed by the efforts of the not-for-profit organization the Model Alliance, State Senators Jeffrey Klein and Diane Savino, and Assemblyman Steven Otis, introduced the legislation, which passed the State Senate and Assembly unanimously on June 12, 2013. [read post]
24 Sep 2013, 6:17 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Bill Otis has this post at Crime & Consequences, critiquing Michael Cassidy's argument that prosecutors have an ethical obligation to oppose mandatory minimums. [read post]
6 Sep 2013, 8:36 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Bill Otis has this post at Crime & Consequences, reporting his recent remarks at a Federalist Society debate. [read post]
15 Jun 2013, 6:15 am by Joe Mullin
But then US District Judge Otis Wright ordered them to pay for a second bond, increasing the cost of their appeal to more than $237,000. [read post]
22 Jul 2012, 5:45 pm by Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com)
See William Tudor, Life of James Otis 66–67 (1823) (quoting a speech from 1761 given by James Otis, who stated that “one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. [read post]
22 Jul 2012, 3:01 am by SHG
In yesterday's post about the absurd media speculation and dissemination of factoids and commentary without (as yet) any clear connection to reality about James Holmes, the Aurora Shooter, I segued into a criticism of Doug Berman's post expressing his "gut reaction" that the death penalty brought him comfort.The distinction between other cries for death, such as that of Bill Otis throughout the comments to Berman's post, and Doug's is that… [read post]
21 Jul 2012, 3:55 am by SHG
 And in these kind of awful cases, my heart (or is it my gut) often suggests to me that ultimate punishment of death is the only one which feels fitting.While this is the sort of response one would expect from a fellow like Bill Otis, who would rationalize the merit of executing a serial jaywalker, and who offered this comment: A society unable or unwilling to recognize this man as having earned a trip out of this world is a society that no longer cares about the basic… [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 3:19 am by SHG
  Lynne Stewart hasn't got a lot of friends in this nation who are willing to stand up for a person Bill Otis accuses of treason. [read post]
3 Jun 2012, 5:58 am by SHG
  But that's us.Meet Bill Otis. [read post]