Three Felonies a Day How the Feds Target the Innocent

Name: Three Felonies a Day How the Feds Target the Innocent
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ISBN: 9781594032554

ISBN-10: 1594032556

ISBN-13: 9781594032554

Edition: 2009

Authors: Harvey Silverglate

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The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 9/8/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 325
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.29" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

HARVEY A. SILVERGLATE is counsel to Boston’s Zalkind, Rodriguez, Lunt & Duncan LLP, specializing in criminal defense, civil liberties, and academic freedom/student rights law. He is co-founder and Chairman of FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) and is a regular columnist for The Boston Phoenix. Silverglate has been published in The National Law Journal, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. He is author of The Shadow University with Alan Charles Kors.