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Everyone Deserves Defense, Peter Keane
Everyone Deserves Defense, Peter Keane
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In his decades as a public defender, Peter Keane represented murderers and other criminals as skillfully as he could – even when he knew they were guilty . Keane believes every one, no matter what they’ve done, deserves to have somebody on their side.
Garbage Pails And Puppy Dog Tails: Is That What Katz Is Made Of?, Aya Gruber
Garbage Pails And Puppy Dog Tails: Is That What Katz Is Made Of?, Aya Gruber
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This Article takes the opportunity of the fortieth anniversary of Katz v. U.S. to assess whether the revolutionary case's potential to provide broad and flexible privacy protection to individuals has been realized. Answering this question in a circumspect way, the Article pinpoints the language in Katz that was its eventual undoing and demonstrates how the Katz test has been plagued by two principle problems that have often rendered it more harmful to than protective of privacy. The manipulation problem describes the tendency of conservative courts to define reasonable expectations of privacy as lower than the expectations society actually entertains. The …