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Friday, March 17, 2023

Why didn’t Trump appear before the New York grand jury?

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Posted by Lawrence Crocker at 7:09 AM No comments:
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Labels: Donald Trump, Election Law, Falsifying Business Records, Grand Jury, Manhattan Grand Jury, New York County Grand Jury, Self Incrimination, Tacopina, Trump

Friday, July 19, 2019

The Fifth Amendment Does Not Entail the Constitutionality of Capital Punishment


The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution anticipates the existence of capital punishment. Justice Scalia declared that it follows that capital punishment is constitutional. He was wrong.
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Posted by Lawrence Crocker at 4:45 AM No comments:
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Labels: Capital, Cruel and unusual, Due Process, Eighth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, Grand Jury, Indictment, Jury, Madison, Scalia
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Lawrence Crocker
My Ph.D, was from the Harvard Philosophy Department of Rawls, Putnam, Quine, Nozick, Kripke, Boyd et. al. in 1970. I taught at the University of Washington. Later with a J.D. from Duke, I clerked on the 9th Circuit, did corporate, then air crash litigation, then prosecuted in Manhattan, taught at NYU law, litigated some more, and then taught philosophy at Dartmouth, where I am now a Resident Scholar.
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  • Hope to God
  • TEDx College in Prison
  • "Justification & Bad Motives" Ohio State J Criminal Law 2008
  • "Can the Exclusionary Rule Be Saved" Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 1993
  • "Flunking the Prisoners' Dilemma" Philosophy Now 2009
  • "The Existence of God: Two New Proofs" Philosophy Now 2011
  • "The Impossibility of Maximizing Good Consequences" Philosophy Now Jul/Aug 2014
  • Switching Wine Glasses" Philosophy Now 2008

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