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Saying that a “lifetime of learning and study of the law?? is the central quality of a successful solicitor general, Kagan dismissed the criticism and pledged she would prove a quick study...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kagan Hearings Proceed Smoothly | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...holding that evidence that fits into this exception is not illegal. The court says nothing of allowing illegal evidence to be presented at trial and instead rules on the existence of exceptions to the exclusionary rule. By writing that police officers are made “above the law?? with this decision, you are implying that they committed some sort of crime in the Herring case, or in the cases referenced by Herring. All of the courts ruled on the legality of the procedure followed by law enforcement and never ruled any of their personal behavior illegal...

Author: By Josh Akman | Title: Procedural Exclusion | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...really believe—and heck, my column is premised on it—that there is such a thing as a national sensibility. This singular, essential taste guides our behavior not just where art and entertainment are concerned, but also in government, politics, law??in everything...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: Anatomy of America | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...Case of the Mistaken Hazans” as a beautiful realization of “mishpacha,” the Yiddish word for family, in its largest sense. It’s a word for your mother’s father’s sister-in-law??s great-uncle’s cousin Saul, who looks just like you. Of course, the “wrong” Rabbi Hazan insisted I stay. I felt like Elijah, welcomed to the Seder during Passover. The guests at the already-full table looked at me in disbelief...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Big Fat Italian Rosh Hashanah | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

...degree that law enforcement officers can. In a January 3rd article in the Boston Globe, “Police Balk at Ticketing Marijuana Offenders,” chiefs of police in the towns Clinton and Auburn stated that because of the flaws in the law??s wording, their forces would not even attempt to enforce it. Their line of reasoning here is faulty. Police are not hired to legislate, but to enforce legislation. One concern voiced by Wayne Sampson, executive director of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association—that state law prohibits officers from demanding identification...

Author: By Justine R. Lescroart | Title: Half-Baked Reasons For Opposing Pot Law | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

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