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Before Goodling, 33, can assert the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, she must believe that her testimony could somehow lead to evidence that she committed a crime. So what's the crime she's worried about? The mention of Libby suggests that it's perjury, but as Professor Orin...
Finally, there may actually be fire under all the smoke surrounding the investigation. If, as some have argued, U.S. attorneys were dismissed to stop them from pursuing cases against Bush Administration allies, Goodling might find herself involved in a possible conspiracy to obstruct justice. "Many federal criminal statues are written...
But in practice, reasonable doubt may make convictions too easy. At least half a dozen studies have found that when the prosecution's case isn't airtight, juries often interpret "beyond a reasonable doubt" to mean, in effect, probably guilty. In one study, prospective jurors said they would be willing...
There's psychology at work here too. Lawrence Solan, a professor at Brooklyn Law School and an expert in linguistics and the law, explains that we can process an abstract word like doubt only by contrasting two mental images. In a criminal case, the first image would be the prosecutor...
The country's ire is focused on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who last week publicly acknowledged that he is "an unpopular Prime Minister" - conceding the truth of opinion polls that give him the lowest approval ratings of any Prime Minister in the nation's history. He bears the onus of...