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Ron Herman Leading Palm Beach Bar Criminal Practice Committee

As the Co-Chair of the Palm Beach County Bar Criminal Practice Committee, Ron Herman has been hard at work to bring helpful and interesting programming to criminal law practitioners.  He kicked off the year by brainstorming with the Committee on … Continue reading

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Report on Algorithmic Risk Assessment Tools in the U.S. Criminal Justice System

“This report was written by the staff of the Partnership on AI (PAI) and many of our Partner organizations, with particularly extensive input from the members of PAI’s Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability Working Group. Our work on this topic was … Continue reading

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Mueller's Mistake: A Criminal Trial is not an Opportunity for the Defendant to Clear his Name

by Michael C. DorfSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller accepted the Justice Department policy barring indictments of a sitting president. He could have nonetheless made a determination whether Trump would be subject to indictment based on his conduct as evaluated under the … Continue reading

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Impersonating Another Carries Heavy Criminal Penalties in San Jose

As a child, you may have pretended to be another person, perhaps someone famous or a police officer. While this may have been a harmless way to have fun back then, as an adult, impersonating someone other than yourself can … Continue reading

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Fascinating map and data highlighting prevalence and intensity of marijuana's criminal enforcement footprint

Over at the Washington Post, Christopher Ingraham has this great new piece fully titled "Where the war on weed still rages: In some U.S. counties, more than 40 percent of all arrests are for marijuana possession." The title highlights the … Continue reading

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