A jury anywhere in the country might have decided that this young man should be executed, but at least would have a sense that it was a group of people who were dispassionate, Professor Michael Meltsner tells Boston 25 News. Meltsner has signed on to an amicus brief supporting Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s request to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for a new death penalty trial.
Professor Daniel Medwed joins WGBH News to discuss recent developments at the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court: I think the most notable recent decision concerns a Massachusetts law that punishes people for profiting from sex trafficking — so-called pimps."
“It sounds like the defense lawyers are doing the best they can with less than ideal facts,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The LA Times. “Being an effective trial lawyer is managing the rules of evidence but also managing the narrative, so that you create sympathy and support for your side in a way that’s almost complementary to the evidence.”
Richard Burns ’80, former executive director of the NYC LGBT Community Center, is offering a steady hand as interim CEO of Lambda Legal, which was led by Kevin Cathcart ’82 until his retirement in 2016.
Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Boston Globe that the removal of tents and the recent shuttering of an engagement center were “wrong-headed initiatives that leaned too heavily on law enforcement to simply sweep the problems of Mass. and Cass under the proverbial rug.”
Shanel Lindsay ’07, founder and president of the Boston cannabis company Ardent and a member of the Massachusetts Cannabis Advisory Board, is profiled in The Boston Globe!
The 20th-floor work space of Massachusetts AG Maura Healey ’98 is the focus of this Boston Globe feature. And, of course, the AG has her NUSL diploma proudly displayed in her office!
Margo Lindauer '07, director of the School of Law's Domestic Violence Institute, tells Refinery29 that custody proceedings can increase the lethality of domestic violence situations: “Children are often the last link between abusers and their victims and that abusers often exploit family courts in an effort to retain power.”
“People are dropping dead by the thousands [in the opioid epidemic], and we are teetering around the edges,”Professor Leo Beletsky tells Vox Media.
Listen now! Qainat Khan ’20 has produced a four-part series on affordable housing for WBUR Radio Boston. The final episode airs tomorrow and will feature Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand.