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In the wake of the Boston bombing, News12 spoke with Professor Thomas McDonnell about the legal implications of the developing case. An expert on national security, Professor McDonnell shared his perspective on the charges brought against the suspect. “I have to commend the Obama administration for not going the ‘unlawful combatant’ route,” said Professor McDonnell [...]

Professor Bennett Gershman commented on “double jeopardy” and whether it could apply in a situation involving a computer programmer who formerly worked for the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The programmer faces state charges for the alleged theft of programming code after his 2010 conviction in federal court on the same allegations was reversed. Quoted in [...]

In his column in the “Huffington Post,” Professor Bennett Gershman condemns the prosecution of Don Siegleman and asks why Siegleman has not been pardoned or the sentence commuted. “Of all the abusive, vindictive, and politically-driven prosecutions by the U.S. Department of Justice, the prosecution of Don Siegleman stands at the top,” writes Gershman. The piece [...]

“The Palm Beach Post” is the latest publication to seek the perspective of Professor Bennett Gershman, an expert on jury misconduct. In an article about a DUI manslaughter conviction, Professor Gershman comments on the later revelation that jurors had provided misinformation during voir dire. “We know that this happens, and it happens a lot more [...]

A defendant was granted a new trial after a judge threw out the conviction citing the conduct of the Queens district attorney’s office. As reported in “The New York Times,” which quoted Professor Bennett Gershman, Justice James P. Griffin of State Supreme Court in Queens, N.Y. cited the failure of the district attorney’s office to [...]

With the conviction of the New York City police officer dubbed the “Cannibal Cop,” the Wall Street Journal spoke with Professor Audrey Rogers. An expert in criminal law, she commented on the “fantasy defense” used in trial, a strategy that claimed the defendant’s words expressed his fantasies, not actual plans. “Ms. Rogers said that on [...]

A high profile case in New Orleans came to an abrupt end when the U.S. Attorney’s office decided not to file charges after they had already invested millions of dollars and four years of investigative work. To date, they have provided no explanation. In its coverage of the story which details the presumed defendant going [...]

Prosecutors resorting to racial prejudice is the topic of a column written by Professor Bennett Gershman in Huffington Post. Citing passages from earlier cases, Prof. Gershman writes about a current case the United States Supreme Court refused to review and the manner in which the prosecutor’s conduct has gone undisciplined by the Office of Professional [...]

An article in “The Wall Street Journal” includes the perspectives of Professor Audrey Rogers who commented on the so-called “fantasy defense” and its use in a Federal case in New York City. The case is against Gilbert Valle, a NYC police officer, who has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping after [...]

Writing about a legal case in California, a reporter from “The Oakland Tribune” spoke with Professor Bennett Gershman. South Bay District Attorney Jeff Rosen must decide whether to discipline an assistant district attorney– who also happens to be his closest friend– after an appellate court found that the ADA had engaged in a “pervasive pattern [...]