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Phases And Faces Of The Duke Lacrosse Controversy: A Conversation, James Coleman, Angela Davis, Michael Gerhardt, K. Johnson, Lyrissa Lidsky, Howard Wasserman
Phases And Faces Of The Duke Lacrosse Controversy: A Conversation, James Coleman, Angela Davis, Michael Gerhardt, K. Johnson, Lyrissa Lidsky, Howard Wasserman
Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky
This panel took place at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) in July 2008 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The transcript has been edited for grammar, punctuation and writing style, as well as for limited content changes.
Narrowly Restricting "Clearly Established" Civil Liberties: The Constitutional Ramifications Of A Family Member's [Under] Protected Federal Privacy Rights In The Dissemination Of Postmortem Images In Marsh V. County Of San Diego, Mahira Siddiqui
Golden Gate University Law Review
In Marsh, the Ninth Circuit held that a prosecutor who photocopied and kept a child's autopsy photograph (and after retirement gave the copy to the press) was entitled to qualified immunity. The court reasoned that there was no "clearly established" law to inform the prosecutor that his earlier conduct in making and keeping the photocopy was unlawful. In so holding, the Ninth Circuit relied on American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Co. v. Sullivan, which held that a plaintiff must prove that he or she was "deprived of a right secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States."' Moreover, …
Threats And Bullying By Prosecutors, Bennett L. Gershman
Threats And Bullying By Prosecutors, Bennett L. Gershman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Part I of this Essay describes ten contexts in which prosecutors make threats and behave like bullies. Some of these contexts are familiar, such as grand jury proceedings or plea discussions, where threats are generally upheld. Threats in other contexts are not as easy to justify, such as threats to obtain testimony from prosecution witnesses, retaliating for the exercise of constitutional rights, forcing a waiver of civil rights claims, and publicly humiliating people. Other threats clearly are illegitimate and unethical, such as threats that drive defense witnesses off the stand, bringing criminal charges against outspoken critics and defense experts, and …