Books written by Harvey Silverglate
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The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses
On Thursday morning, Sonya Silverstein, Arnie Silverstein, and the ACLU's Stefan Presser cleared their calendars, Eden came to Philadelphia from New York, and, with the media notified about the astonishing turn of events, ...
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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
Schwartz was also puzzled about how and why a statute written to preserve cor- porate records was suddenly being used to criminalize the destruction of material that, unlike corporate records, it is a crime to possess under any ...
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Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
Reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any citizen of any social class or profession, for even the most seemingly ...
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Conviction Machine: Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse
In 2009, Harvey A. Silverglate, a prominent criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer, published his landmark critique of the federal criminal justice system, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.
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Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and ...
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Conviction Machine
"In 2009, Harvey A. Silverglate, a prominent criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer, published his landmark critique of the federal criminal justice system, Three felonies a day: how the feds target the innocent.