Word: arenella
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...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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