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Private Bar Monitors Public Defense - Oversight Committee Sets Standards For Indigent Defense Providers, Adele Bernhard
Private Bar Monitors Public Defense - Oversight Committee Sets Standards For Indigent Defense Providers, Adele Bernhard
Articles & Chapters
The oversight committee drafted standards and guidelines with the primary goal of creating a yardstick for defense services organizations against which to measure performance and the hope that a practical set of standards serve multiple purposes, including: educating a skeptical public about what it takes to provide quality defense services; promoting an understanding of why adequate funding is necessary (to engender public support for more spending); and providing notice to the organizations themselves of what is expected of a publicly funded defense office.
Taking The Cop Out Of Copping A Plea: Eradicating Police Prosecution Of Criminal Cases, Andrew Horwitz
Taking The Cop Out Of Copping A Plea: Eradicating Police Prosecution Of Criminal Cases, Andrew Horwitz
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Batson Ethics For Prosecutors And Trial Court Judges, Sheri Lynn Johnson
Batson Ethics For Prosecutors And Trial Court Judges, Sheri Lynn Johnson
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Publicity In High Profile Criminal Cases, H. Patrick Furman
Publicity In High Profile Criminal Cases, H. Patrick Furman
Publications
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Independent Counsel And Vigorous Investigation And Prosecution, William Michael Treanor
Independent Counsel And Vigorous Investigation And Prosecution, William Michael Treanor
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This essay draws on the examples of Watergate and Iran-Contra to offer a new perspective on Independent Counsel and their ability to investigate and prosecute high-level wrongdoing. The current consensus is that an Independent Counsel, appointed by judges of the special court pursuant to the Ethics in Government Act, will invariably investigate and prosecute crimes more vigorously than a Special Prosecutor appointed by the President or the Attorney General. Watergate and Iran-Contra suggest, however, that there are institutional and political factors that make analysis of the comparative tendencies of the two types of prosecutors more complex and dependent on circumstance. …