Ninth Circuit Strikes out on Hearsay

The recent Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals opinion, United States v. Barry Bonds , is a murky distortion of an important Federal Rule of Evidence. Quite apart from any celebrity status about a decision regarding the upcoming perjury trial of the former Giants\u27 slugger, the ruling significantly affects the admissibility of evidence in the federal courts in an unfortunate and erroneous way

Tenth Annual Fulbright Symposium on International Legal Problems

Opening remarks by Prof. Peter Keane

Everyone Deserves Defense

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

The Jury-Some Thoughts, Historical and Personal

rich baggage of our heritage and origins as a communal people. It is both what we have been and what we are now. From the jury\u27s first crude forms developed by our primitive ancestors in thick groves of forest clearings, to contemporary juries in modern courtrooms listening to testimony about DNA and E. Coli Bacteria, the institution has been adequate to the tasks we give it. A jury is a more representative societal mechanism of our culture than anything else in which we participate as citizens

The Jury-Some Thoughts, Historical and Personal

rich baggage of our heritage and origins as a communal people. It is both what we have been and what we are now. From the jury\u27s first crude forms developed by our primitive ancestors in thick groves of forest clearings, to contemporary juries in modern courtrooms listening to testimony about DNA and E. Coli Bacteria, the institution has been adequate to the tasks we give it. A jury is a more representative societal mechanism of our culture than anything else in which we participate as citizens