Remove Law School Remove Lawyers Remove Mens Rea
article thumbnail

Why Do We Treat Sex Crimes Differently Than Other Violent Crimes?

The Crime Report

“I’m kind of saying to people, you think that this is like enlightenment, creating more sex crimes every day, getting tougher on sex crimes, but look at some of the history, even the recent history and you start to question that instinct,” Gruber said of her research.

Mens Rea 140
article thumbnail

SCOTUS dispatch: government lawyer grilled for an hour on meaning of federal corruption statute

JURIST

Gijs de Bra is a JURIST Assistant Editor and SCOTUS special correspondent, and a 2L at Cornell Law School. It is truly—as a former government lawyer—baffling how someone say that [the definition of corruptly] was not contested, that this [gratuity] was wrongful. Rebuttal “At least we should get a 9-0 remand today,” Ms.

Statute 129