Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
The Center is an apolitical advocacy organization and think-tank dedicated to the promotion of good government practices in the criminal justice system.

Executive Director:
Anthony S. Barkow

Faculty Director:
Rachel E. Barkow
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2008
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Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
We hope you were able to make it to the Professor Paul Butler event last week: "Should Good People Be Prosecutors?" If not, we are proud to present video of the event below. The Center's Executive Director Anthony Barkow had an interesting and important debate with Professor Butler about whether individuals can better ...bring about justice by being inside the criminal justice system working as a prosecutor or if their efforts would be better used on the outside. Let us know what you think!Read More

Let's Get Free: "Should Good People Be Prosecutors"
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On October 28, 2009, Professor Paul Butler of George Washington University Law School discussed his recent book, "Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice," in particular, a chapter entitled, "Should ...
November 3 at 12:38pm
Julia
Julia
Prof. Paul Butler argues that people striving for racial, social, and economic justice should not be prosecutors. Because the criminal justice system wreaks such havoc upon African American and Latino communities, Prof. Butler argues that prosecutors, as largely discretionless actors within the system, will accomplish much less good than they ... Read Moremight if they worked outside the system attempting to change it. I thought Prof. Butler's arguments were compelling and persuasive, but I would have liked to hear more about what will happen if all socially conscious people heed his advice but fail to quickly overhaul the criminal justice system. During this intermediary period, should we be concerned about what happens to the people who go through a system now bereft of "good" prosecutors? Factually, I agree with Prof. Butler that it is unrealistic that everyone will heed his advice, but I'm still interested in the possibility.
November 3 at 3:33pm
Dave
Dave
That is the question that was bugging me too Julia. There's no doubt that the criminal justice system needs a little more justice injected into it. But the changes we need/want will take years, if not decades. If all of the good people get out of the prosecuting business, doesn't that make the system go from bad to worse? Why not flood the system with good people?
November 4 at 8:51am
Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

Center on the Administration of Criminal Law .
The Center presents:

A Public Address On White Collar Crime
By Preet Bharara United States Attorney, Southern District of New York

Immediately followed by a cocktail reception.

Space is limited. If you would like to attend, please RSVP at: http://its.law.nyu.edu/rsvp/bhararaspeech/

Public Address on White Collar Crime by US Attorney Preet Bharara
Time:6:00PM Thursday, November 19th
Location:New York University School of Law, Greenberg Lounge
October 29 at 12:34pm
Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
It is with great pleasure that we share with you our current 2009-2010 Events Schedule, as well as a brief summary of some of the work the Center performed during its inaugural year. Upcoming Events include our Second Annual Major Conference with keynote speaker Patrick Fitzgerald (NDIL US Attorney), a public address f...rom Preet Bharara (SDNY US Attorney), and a presentation and discussion from Professor Paul Butler about his new book "Let's Get Free: A Hip-hop Theory of Justice."Read More

Center on the Administration of Criminal Law -- Upcoming Events & Recent Work
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October 5 at 9:46am
Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
Executive Director Anthony S. Barkow and Center Fellow Jason A. Richman comment on the recent controversy over a prosecutorial declination for Andrew Sullivan's possession of marijuana. Barkow and Richman note that the detractors, specifically the judge in the case, ignore "the constitutional and practical role prosec...utors play as gatekeepers in the criminal justice system, the obligation of prosecutors only to pursue charges that result in
proportional punishment, and the fact that prosecutors’ first
obligation in all exercises of discretion is to see that justice is done."Read More

Sentencing Law and Policy: A thoughtful defense of prosecutorial declination in the Andrew Sullivan
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Regular readers may recall the recent kerfuffle over the decision by federal prosecutors to dismiss minor marijuana possession charges against noted blogger Andrew Sullivan (blogged here). Because ...
October 1 at 10:40am
Bianca Beadling

Bianca Beadling
I just wanted to drop in and say thank you so much for speaking out for animals over the 18 USC § 48 - Depiction of Animal Cruelty. It is thanks to you and the others that filed amicus briefs that this crucial law is being reviewed. You deserve to be commended for standing up for such an important cause! :)

Please stop... in and check out our group to learn more about our efforts to end this obscene cruelty to animals. "Help Put an End to Animal Crush Videos". If you have any advice on steps we could take, it would be so welcomed by our members.


Thank you again.Read More

Help Put an End to Animal Crush Videos
Crush videos are video recordings of women, often in high-heeled shoes, torturing, impaling and crushing to death puppies, kittens, rabbits, baby ducks and other small animals. They burn these living...
September 22 at 8:43pm
Laura Arandes

Laura Arandes
The Center filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of respondents, McGhee and Harrington, who spent nearly twenty years in prison after prosecutors used fabricated evidence to frame them for a crime they did not commit. The Center's brief argued that, like law enforcement agents, pros...ecutors should receive qualified rather than absolute immunity for unconstitutional actions they take in their investigative capacity.Read More

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September 21 at 12:12pm
Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
The Center on the Administration of Criminal Law co-sponsors, and the Jacob Burns Ethics Center hosts, a Brady conference that brings together leading professionals and scholars to provide new insight and present various viewpoints on Brady and other disclosure obligations. Approved for 7.5 Ethics CLE credits.

The most... effective and ethical prosecutor’s office is one where the leader sets a tone of ethical behavior and hires and trains lawyers with good character who possess good judgment. Recent high profile cases as well as wrongful convictions caused, at least in part, by government practices of failure to disclose evidence have highlighted the need for in-depth examination of systemic causes and remedies.

This conference will explore what are the best systems for information management; what kinds of training, oversight and systems of accountability are the best practices; and how we can encourage a commitment to those practices.

The goal of this conference is the development of best practices to increase the reliability of results obtained by guilty pleas, trials and post conviction proceedings and to optimize effective training, supervision, and control mechanisms for managing information within prosecutors’ offices.

*This course has been approved for 7.5 transitional and non-transitional New York Ethics CLE credits. Registration is free, but you must register by November 2, 2009. To register, please send an email to cardozoethics@gmail.com. Please indicate your name, affiliation, address, phone number, email address, and whether you are applying for CLE credits.

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New Perspectives on Brady & Other Disclosure Obligations: What Really Works
Jacob Burns Ethics Center - Brady Conference
Time:9:00AM Sunday, November 15th
Location:Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
September 15 at 11:10am
Dave

Dave NPR profiles the Colombian drug war with an eye toward how extradition may not be reaching the big players. Anthony Barkow, Executive Director of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, comments on extradition and the interest of the United States in the drug war at 3:15 into the five minute piece.

Minor Players Caught Up In Colombia's Drug War : NPR
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There was a time when Colombia refused to extradite suspected drug traffickers to the U.S. These days, critics say Colombia is extraditing too many minor players in the drug trade. So minor that some have spent just a few months in a U.S. ...
September 10 at 8:14am
Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

Center on the Administration of Criminal Law The Center has filed an amicus brief in the State of New York Court of Appeals, proposing a new, clearer test for determining when a tacit agreement exists between a prosecutor and a cooperating witness to provide benefits to the witness in exchange for testifying against a defendant.

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September 8 at 10:32am
Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

Center on the Administration of Criminal Law The Center has filed an amicus brief in support of a petition for writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court, arguing that federal court decisions permitting immigration courts to treat second misdemeanor convictions as recidivist felonies despite a state prosecutor's choice to decline felony charges improperly interfere with the basic exercise of prosecutorial discretion and may violate the right to a jury trial.

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August 19 at 11:47am
Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

Center on the Administration of Criminal Law The Washington Post interviews Executive Director Anthony Barkow about the surprising move by Judge Richard Sullivan to deny bail to a key witness in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme in spite of the prosecution's recommendation to allow bail. Does this devalue future deals prosecutors will attempt to make in this case or are the Madoff defendants in so much trouble that they will take whatever deal they can get?

Judge Surprises Madoff Deputy, Rejects Bail - washingtonpost.com
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NEW YORK -- When Frank DiPascali Jr. walked into a federal courthouse Tuesday afternoon, he expected to be able to stroll right back out. Instead, DiPascali, a key witness in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, was led away in handcuffs after a federal judge took the unusual step of rejecting the pr...
August 14 at 9:15am
Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
We are pleased to introduce video of the Center's inaugural conference, entitled "Regulation by Prosecutors." In this first of four videos you will find introductory remarks by Dean Richard Revesz and the Center's Executive Director, Anthony Barkow; the keynote speech by James B. Comey, former Deputy Attorney General ...of the United States; and the panel "Regulation by Prosecutors: An Introduction."Read More

Regulation by Prosecutors Conference: Introductory Remarks and Panel 1
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This is a video of the introductory remarks and the first panel from "Regulation By Prosecutors", the inaugural annual conference organized by the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law. Welcome Richard L. ...
August 11 at 9:50am
Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

Center on the Administration of Criminal Law Professor Butler will be discussing his Hip-Hop theory of justice, focusing on the chapter from his new book: "Should Good People Be Prosecutors?"

RSVP: http://its.law.nyu.edu/rsvp/forum1028/

Let's Get Free, by Professor Paul Butler: Discussion and Book Signing
A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
Time:12:25PM Wednesday, October 28th
Location:NYU Law School - Greenberg Lounge
August 6 at 11:53am