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By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:13:39 +0000

Harvey Silverglate is a dangerous man

By: lkcape

lkcape — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:53:16 +0000

Liberty and freedom are being compromised by the passing of bills of attainder one at a time.

But that is what corrupt, politically motivated legislatures do.

By: Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:11:06 +0000

She made her career as Middlesex DA prosecuting innocent people just to grab headlines.

That’s quite an accusation, Michael. Care to give us some evidence?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:00:34 +0000

“There’s something wrong with a system that knows there’s evidence of innocence and hides it.”

This is a particularly timely book when we have Martha Coakley running for US Senate. She made her career as Middlesex DA prosecuting innocent people just to grab headlines. What Harvey Silverglate describes at the federal level is happening many times over at the local level.

In a way, it’s disappointing that Silverglate spends so much time trying to rehabilitate unsympathetic folks like Michael Milken and Arthur Andersen. It can distract from the reality that local prosecutions of innocent people routinely destroy families and individual lives.

By: TomW

TomW — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:57:22 +0000

“Liberty and freedom are being compromised, one prosecution at a time.”

Just finished a New Yorker review of a new book about the Dreyfus affair in 1890s France. Kadzis’s quote could have been easily applied then as now. The similarities are sobering.