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Written Statement by Brian Walsh, "Gang Crime Prevention and the Need to Foster Innovative Solutions at the Federal Level," Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives on October 2, 2007.
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Written Statement by Dick Thornburgh, "Examining Approaches to Corporate Fraud Prosecutions and the Attorney-Client Privilege under the McNulty Memorandum," Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. Senate on September 18, 2007.
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Written Statement by Andrew Weissmann, "Examining Approaches to Corporate Fraud Prosecutions and the Attorney-Client Privilege under the McNulty Memorandum," Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. Senate on September 18, 2007.
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Written Statement by Dick Thornburgh, "White Collar Enforcement (Part 1): Attorney-Client Privilege and Corporate Waivers," Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security of the Committee of the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives on March 7, 2006.
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Written Statement by Edwin Meese III, "The Thompson Memorandum’s Effect on the Right to Counsel in Corporate Investigations," Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. Senate on September 12, 2006.
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Written Statement by Andrew Weissmann, "Thompson Memorandum’s Effect on the Right to Counsel in Corporate Investigations," Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. Senate on September 12, 2006.
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Written Statement by Paul Rosenzweig, "Sentencing in a Post-Booker World- It’s Déjà vu All Over Again," U.S. Sentencing Commission on February 15, 2005.
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Written Statement by Paul Rosenzweig, "Federal Prosecution Policy and the Attorney-Client Privilege," American Bar Association Task Force on the Attorney-Client Privilege on February 11, 2005.
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Over-Criminalization of Social and Economic Conduct
The origin of modern criminal law can be traced
to early feudal times. From its inception, the criminal law expressed both
a moral and a practical judgment about the societal consequences of certain
activity: to be a crime, the law required that an individual must both cause
(or attempt to cause) a wrongful injury and do so with some form of malicious
intent. Classically, lawyers capture this insight in two
principles...
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