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This month Robert Sanger reviews Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class by Dan Canon.
This month Elizabeth Ramsey reviews Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal by Carissa Byrne Hessick.
Comments with FAMM to Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco regarding U.S. Attorney offices requiring waiver of the right to seek compassionate release during plea negotiations.
Thanks to the trial penalty, criminal trials no longer offer sufficient opportunities for the community to evaluate the conduct of the police during citizen-officer encounters. Police and prosecutors can effectively coerce guilty pleas thereby obscuring, even deliberately shielding, unlawful police conduct from public exposure and review by the courts.
Comments to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure regarding a proposed amendment to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Letter to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure regarding proposed changes to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, except those related to criminal forfeiture.
Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae Supporting Reversal (on petition for rehearing en banc)
Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner.
The Feeney Amendment: Effective Date and Ex Post Facto Issues Peter Goldberger, Felicia Sarner
