The Winter Olympics of Cooperation: The Bridge On The River Kwai, White-Collar Self-Image and Federal Sentencing
With all of the discussion about Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his “cooperators,” now is an appropriate time to revisit the basics of “cooperation” in...
White-Collar Motive, Gun Crazy Movie
In 1950, producers Frank and Maurice King released Gun Crazy, a sometimes surreal Bonnie-and-Clyde story with an introverted, pacifist gun lover (Barton Tare, played by John Dall)...
White-Collar Felon Registries, Hester Prynne and The Drive-By Truckers
Although one must admire the historicist sensibilities of a state legislature that just reinstated the firing squad as a methodology for execution, the Utah legislature’s passage...
Why Innocent People Plead Guilty: Judge Rakoff, Eddie Coyle, Albert Camus and Sweet Dreams of Oppression
If they give awards for “Best White-Collar Article of The Year,” I wish to nominate one. And it’s not even, strictly speaking, an article only...
Conservatives and Mandatory Minimum Federal Sentences
From Professor Berman’s “Sentencing Law and Policy Blog,” why conservatives should support the effort to reform mandatory minimums in non-violent federal sentences: the Heritage Foundation...
Take The Deal or Go To Trial? Exactly.
The awful pressure to plead guilty, brought on by the significantly enhanced sentences that the Government often seeks where a defendant asserts his right to...
Why’d He Do It?
Here’s a note from Professor Ellen Podgor about an article on Sentencing the Why of White Collar Crime by Todd Haugh (Illinois Institute of Technology...
Alabama’s New Sentencing Guidelines
A good summary from Sentencing Law and Policy Blog about Alabama’s new sentencing guidelines: I find it so very telling that when states create sentencing...
From our friends at the White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Quick collection of white-collar news from the White Collar Crime Prof Blog: Mark Hamblett & Sara Randazzo, The AmLaw Daily, Ex-Kirkland Partner Sentenced to One...
White-collar news stories via White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Good roundup of white-collar news stories from Ellen Podgor and White Collar Crime Prof Blog: Mark Hamblett & Sara Randazzo, The AmLaw Daily, Ex-Kirkland Partner...