Deborah Denno was quoted in CNN about lethal injection as a form of capital punishment. The United States Supreme Court cited professor Denno’s 2007 Fordham Law Review article and her 2014 Georgetown Law Journal article on lethal injection. A controversial execution of a Muslim inmate in Alabama appears to have set off a rare public debate between Supreme Court justices over how the death penalty is enforced. Despite Chief Justice John Roberts’ oft-stated goal of keeping the Supreme Court above the kinds of conflicts that have crippled the political branches of government, there are times when internal debates between the…
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Professor John Pfaff wrote a post in Washington Monthly, where he takes a critical look at the new book, Doing Justice, written by Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and how it resonates within the broader efforts currently taking place in justice reform. The closest thing the book has to a thesis comes toward its end, when Bharara describes the process as “an inquiry fairly conducted, an accusation rightly made, a judgment properly rendered.” This is a stunningly sunny take on our criminal justice system, optimistic to the point of being dangerously misleading.…
Deborah Denno was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about lethal injection as a form of capital punishment. The United States Supreme Court cited professor Denno’s 2007 Fordham Law Review article and her 2014 Georgetown Law Journal article on lethal injection. A Missouri death row inmate with a rare medical condition lost a contentious appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court on April 1, clearing the way for what he warns will be a gruesome execution filled with bursting and bloody tumors. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote the 5-4 opinion against Russell Bucklew, reigniting a death penalty feud on the…
Bruce Green was quoted in a Miami Herald article about legal ethics as related to multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s plea deal for sexually abusing teenage girls. The lawyer for the 16-year-old girl who state prosecutors now say was the victim attached to the mysterious plea deal given to multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein says neither he nor his client was ever informed that it was her case that ended Epstein’s prosecution. … Bruce Green, a professor of legal ethics at Fordham University School of Law, said that if it is found that prosecutors lied to a judge, disciplinary charges can be brought by…
Bruce Green was quoted in an ABC 6 article regarding the sudden closure of the case against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett for allegedly orchestrating a hate crime hoax. As questions and anger continued to swirl around the sudden closure of the case against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett for allegedly orchestrating a hate crime hoax, President Donald Trump claimed Thursday the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice are looking into what many see as a miscarriage of justice by Chicago prosecutors. … According to Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham Law…
Professor Andrew Kent testified at a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing regarding the constitutional role of the pardon power. Watch full video.
Cheryl Bader was quoted in a USA Today article regarding the case against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett for allegedly orchestrating a hate crime hoax. Cheryl Bader, a practicing lawyer and clinical associate law professor at Fordham University in New York, says prosecutors traditionally go into court with the advantage of being “cloaked with credibility,” because jurors tend to believe at the outset they have a good reason for bringing a case. Now Foxx and her team are widely perceived to have allowed “a complete debacle of prosecutorial discretion” in the Smollett case, Bader says. “They might be going into the…
Professor Olivier Sylvain wrote an op-ed in The New York Times explaining how the latest housing discrimination lawsuits against Facebook provide an initial blueprint for a path forward on big tech reform. Professor Sylvain was a consultant to the lawyers in National Fair Housing Alliance v. Facebook, one of the cases that settled last week. Before the Department of Housing and Urban Development on Thursday announced that it has charged Facebook with violating the Fair Housing Act by enabling advertisers to engage in housing discrimination, Facebook said that it would change its ad-targeting methods to forbid discriminatory advertisements about housing, employment and…
Cheryl Bader was quoted in a USA Today article regarding the case against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett for allegedly orchestrating a hate crime hoax. Cheryl Bader, associate professor at Fordham Law School, said the lack of clarity from prosecutors on the decision was curious. “I am assuming the prosecution discovered a significant blow to the credibility of prosecutions’ witnesses or to the integrity of the police investigation to justify this drastic turn around,” Bader said. “Interestingly, they did not announce charges or make statement indicating any action against the two men who were initially accused and then appear to have…
Alumna Janice McKenzie Cole ’79, former district court judge, U.S. attorney and Perquimans County commissioner, was featured in Perquimans Weekly article regarding her being honored by Black Law Students Association at Fordham Law. On the 100th anniversary of the year the first women were admitted to Fordham Law School, Janice McKenzie Cole was one of those who have been honored for her contributions. The Black Law Student Association honored 16 living alumnae, four future alumnae and three past alumnae. The ceremony was held Feb. 26. “We were happy to honor her at our museum entitled ‘Lawyering Beyond the Shadows: Telling…