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Can Skilling Get a New Trial?
On Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit ruled on Jeff Skilling’s appeal from his conviction in the Enron case, upholding the conviction, but sending the case back for re-sentencing. Skilling may be able to...
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Are White Collar Sentences Too Harsh Now?
When we started law school back in ’93, we felt that white-collar criminals just weren’t punished that harshly in this country. The Dilbert strip above, from about the same time, shows that we were...
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Skilling Decision: Good for Justice, Bad for Jurisprudence
It looks like we spotted the trend. Unfortunately. Last week we noted that, when faced with an ambiguous statute, some on the Supreme Court are now willing to read new language into the statute,...
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