Faculty: Hon. Jed Rakoff, District Judge, SDNY
Program Chairs: James B. Kobak, Jr., Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Chair, NYCLA Justice Center; Hon. Joseph Kevin McKay (Ret.),Vice-Chair, NYCLA Justice Center; Lewis Tesser, Tesser, Ryan & Rochman LLP, Chair, The Plea Bargaining Task Force of the NYCLA Justice Center
Program Co-sponsors: NYCLA Justice Center and NYCLA’s Law and Literature Committee
Join us for a very special author event, as Judge Rakoff discusses his incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that define the judiciary today.
The book features essays examining why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives avoid prosecution, why you probably won’t get your day in court and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power.
Judge Rakoff, a leading authority on white collar crime, explores such questions as:
- How can we be proud of a system of justice that often pressures the innocent to plead guilty?
- How can we claim that justice is equal when we imprison thousands of poor Black men for relatively modest crimes but rarely prosecute rich white executives who commit crimes having far greater impact?
- How can we applaud the Supreme Court’s ever-more-limited view of its duty to combat excesses by the president?
Like few others, Rakoff understands the values that animate the best aspects of our legal system?and has a close-up view of our failure to live up to these ideals. But he sees within this gap great opportunities for practical reform, and a public mandate to make our justice system truly just.
To read more about the book click here: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/20/why-innocent-people-plead-guilty/
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