Laurie Levenson
Laurie Levenson
Laurie L. Levenson is a Professor of Law, William M. Rains Fellow, the David W. Burcham Chair in Ethical Advocacy, and Director of the Center for Legal Advocacy at Loyola Law School. She teaches evidence, criminal law, criminal procedure, ethics, anti-terrorism, and white collar crime. She served as Loyola’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1996-1999. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Professor Levenson is also the Director of the Loyola Center for Ethical Advocacy. Professor Levenson was the 2003...
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Everybody wonders who is going to take the fall.
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What Janet Reno has to consider is, 'Do I go through this long process with the odds against getting the death penalty, or do I end it here?'
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We don't usually think of them as literary giants.
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Everything changed last week because Ted Kaczynski's mental state changed. These prosecutors, who were very confident until then, felt the ground shake beneath them.
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Everything changed last week because Ted Kaczynski's mental state changed, ... These prosecutors, who were very confident until then, felt the ground shake beneath them.
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Now they can walk away and say he didn't get away with it.
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The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality.
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It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.
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It is a very dangerous precedent because it gives the court an opportunity to close out the public from critical information during a high-publicity trial, ... This formalizes the celebrity exception to the First Amendment.
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I think the prosecution was looking for a symbolic victory and they got it.
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From his standpoint, it doesn't hurt his reputation because he had no reputation left. This case was unpleasant for everyone and now it just goes away.
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What makes the American criminal justice system different from so many others in the world is our willingness to cast some sunshine on the process, but if you can't see it, you can't really criticize it.
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He's going to wind up with a lot of reluctant, unhappy jurors, ... And if they don't want to be there, they may not listen to the evidence. It's dangerous to force people into jury service.
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We have the people who did the dirty work, but we don't have the people who hired them.