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Dunster co-masters James Vorenberg '49 and Elizabeth Vorenberg have resigned and will leave their posts at the end of this semester...
...James Vorenberg '49, master of Dunster House, said yesterday the alarm went off in Dunster twice early Saturday morning...
Both James Vorenberg '49, professor of Law, and Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, worked on the sentencing portion of the bill, and yesterday both viewed the curtailment of judicial discretion as an important, if still inadequate, step in the right direction. Dershowitz said the provision represents a "major new approach to sentencing, potentially the most important law reform of the decade...
...social provisions. He thought that an amendment tacked onto the bill by Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kans.), allowing judges to deny pre-trial release to persons accused of murder, treason, rape, sabotage, or trafficking in narcotics, is probably unconstitutional. Dershowitz agreed the provision was a "crass political compromise." Vorenberg refused comment on the Dole amendment...
Another feature of the new criminal code is to raise the maximum corporate fine from $50,000 to $500,000. Vorenberg said a $500,000 fine would hurt corporations more than $50,000, while Dershowitz advocated a penalty proportional to a corporation's illegal profits...