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...crime??€”and the Harvard connection—has attracted major media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and Court...
...immortality is what makes annotating books so appealing. When I was in elementary school, all the dirty words in the classroom dictionaries were double-underlined—the legacy of some tough kid who had flouted the rules; afterwards, writing in books struck me as a minor but sordid crime??€”an impression reinforced by the prickly anti-annotation posters in Lamont. Reading used books has changed my mind. I have become an extravagant annotator, running pencil commentary up the margins and between paragraph breaks, covering every morsel of blank in the hope that, years hence, someone will wonder...
...part on Turow’s own experience in Illinois. Although all of the facts surrounding Gandolph’s crime have been invented, the basic premise of the situation—a confessed and condemned murder suddenly begins pleading innocence, and another convict claims to have committed the crime??€”loosely parallels the case of former Illinois death row inmates Rolando Cruz and his co-defendant Alex Hernandez, whom Turow represented in appeal in 1991. A fabricated confession, as well as significant oversight and mishandling of the case by detectives, led to their false convictions in 1983. After...
...daylight robberies and an evening assault—described by the victim as a hate crime??€”occurred last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday...
...completely fair, standard judicial process. Arbitrary conviction based not on factual guilt, but on a jury’s collective opinion of a law’s fairness, encourages disobedience to the legal code because the certainty that proven guilt results in criminal penalties is weakened. Deterring crime??€”a major function of the law—can only be accomplished with the universal recognition that criminal action results in punishment. Interrupting that direct link between crime and punishment weakens the deterrent effect of the legal code, thereby increasing criminal action...