Prosecutors gone wild. Please welcome david keene from the washington times, former u. S. Attorney sidney powell, and kevin ring from families against mandatory minimums. The panel will be moderated by pat nolan, Acu Foundation center for criminal Justice Reform. [applause] thank you. The data should send chills up your spine. Over the last several years prosecutors have injected themselves into the political process going after and trying to take down governor perry, governor mcdonnell, governor walker. Add in the nest this is a, james okeefe, senator ted stevens they are assassinating our leadership politically. And using the courts to do it, and using underhanded tactics as was pointed out in the ted stevens case, their corruption was so bad, there lies to the judge and theyre hiding of evidence and witnesses was so brad that the judge so bad that the judge appointed a a special prosecutor to go after them. This is a problem for all of us. If they can do that to a powerful u. S. Sen
I cant imagine a better group of panelists, so steve bright over here is the president of the Southern Center for human rights. You know, in my mind the leading Death Penalty litigant in the country and has been for a number of years, you know, traveling throughout the country to bring these cases to fight, he had a big win in the Supreme Court a couple of weeks ago which maybe he will tell you a little bit about. He has been teaching at Yale Law School since 1993, which those of you who saw, that was the first class on the Death Penalty which he taught and was a marvelous and inspirational figure and a delight to be here with him. Texas Public Policy center. Mark does interesting work in the cause of criminal Justice System and making a case, conservative case for limits, on things like mandatory minimums, over the criminalization, not on a defendant centered rights as much as return of investment. He graduated from the university of texas with all sorts of honors, clerked for a very
Death penalty and my name is dale. I teach law at georgetown and to run a Supreme Court practice. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where its going and i cant imagine a better group of panelists. Over here is the president of the Southern Center for human rights. You know in my mind the leading Death Penalty litigants in the country. And has been for a number of years traveling throughout the country to bring these cases. He had a big one in the Supreme Court or couple weeks ago ago which may be i will tell you a little bit about that hes been teaching at Yale Law School since 1993 which yesterday was significant because that was my first class on the Death Penalty which he taught and was just a marvelous in its rationale figure and its a delight to be here with him. Roy adams is the director of the center for effective justice of the texas Public Policy center. Mark does interesting work in the cause of the criminal Justice System and is making the case for a conservative c
Announcer now, the director of the group right on time discuss the decline on the use of the Death Penalty and the potential for the Supreme Court to in the practice. This is from the aspen ideas festival in colorado. It is about an hour. Thank you for being here. One of the greatest decisions a Society Makes outside of going to war is to whom apply the Death Penalty to. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where it is going. I cant imagine a better group of panelists. Steve is the president for the center for human rights. In my mind, the leading Death Penalty litigant in the country and has been for a number of years. Traveling throughout the country to bring these cases to fight. He had a big win in the Supreme Court a few weeks ago. He has been teaching at yell law school since 1993. Mark does really interesting work and is making the case for a conservative case for limits on things like mandatory minimums or the over criminalization not on a defendant perspective of indiv
Judges were guests of the cato institute. Its about 90 minutes. Good afternoon, everybody. Im tim lynch. Today we will be hosting a debate on the question of whether or not the american criminal Justice System needs an ov overhaul. We have two very distinguished judges from our federal appeallate courts. Whats kind of interesting is that both of our guests were appointed to the bench by president reagan. This is not going to be your typical left right debate here in washington. The judges are in unique position by writing articles, giving lectures and ideas that have an impact on our legal system. I want to thank both of our guests for taking time out of their busy schedules to give us the benefit of some their experiences from the bench and suggesting ideas that might improve our legal system. I would like to take a minute or two to Lay Foundation for the discussion thats to follow. Before i do that, if you have a cell phone quickly doublecheck and make sure theyre silenced as a court