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...Rewards bring people out of the woodwork who would not normally come forward," says UCLA law professor and former public defender Peter Arenella. "Some of them have valuable information; some do not. The Cosby case suggests that under appropriate circumstances such information will be credited." Credit came to So in the form of a check blown up poster-size to look like the jackpot in a Publishers Clearing House commercial. He pledged to donate part of the money to the Ennis William Cosby Foundation. "I'm not an angel," he said. "But I'm not as bad as many people...
...pool contamination is the biggest problem created by the Morning News story. Says Gerald Shargel, a defense lawyer in New York City: "There's a potential for grave damage here. There's apparently no witness that puts McVeigh in Oklahoma City on the morning of the bombing." Says Peter Arenella, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles: "Just a report of this is extremely prejudicial to McVeigh's right to a fair trial. Even if the press reports all its caveats, the people still remember this news." When he spoke to TIME in March 1996, McVeigh said...
...such profiles give police license to stop blacks and Hispanics. It has also upheld the right of police to inspect a drug suspect's garbage without a warrant. "There is a sense that what they're dealing with is the rights of drug dealers," says UCLA law professor Peter Arenella. "But they're dealing in all our rights...
...think the guilty but mentally ill approach is silly," said Peter Arenella, professor of law at Boston University. Guilt is based on the moral accountability, hence the sanity, of the defendant, so a plea of guilty but insane would just "label the guy with a double stigma," he added...
...Arenella said that the state already has the power to commit a defendant acquitted by reason of insanity to a mental institution, making the proposed legislation superfluous...
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