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… United States v. Wills, the district court allowed the government to delay the disclosure of the name of a witness because the witness feared for her safety and the defendant had a violent history. !°* On appeal to the Ninth Circuit, the defendant sought reversal of his convicti...

…'s proposal - crime victims have no right to be heard on whether their address should be given to the defendant. As discussed shortly, 7°4 I had originally proposed allowing victims to be heard "on any matter directly affecting a victim's right" - for example, whether disclosing...

I never served as a prosecutor (though I advise my students who want to become defense attorneys to work in a good prosecutor’s office for a few years.) Also unlike some defense attorneys

…apt in another way. For all the attention the Mideast protests have received, their most notable impact on the region thus far hasn't been an upswell of democracy. It has been a dramatic spike in tensions between two geopolitical titans, Iran and Saudi Arabia. This new Middle Ea...

…lying CVRA case. If the Court rejects the pending motion for joinder (DE 279), then the Court should strike the scurrilous allegations against Dershowitz, or, alternatively, determine the possible mootness of his Motion for Limited Intervention. Of course, if the Court strikes th...

…'ve got the budget hawks and then you've got the defense hawks within the same party. And so I think there is no consensus on a role in the world." In some ways, the first part of his tenure was easier. During the Bush years, money was never an issue. By contrast, Obama faced a...

…rcement policy that penalties not be imposed for insignificant or technical infractions or inadvertent conduct.”). 615 US.C. § 78 f(a). 265 See United States v. Alcatel-Lucent, S.A., supra note 48; see also United States v. Alcatel-Lucent France, supra note 56. 266 See Deferre...

…led more telephone and telex traffic than nearly any other single point on earth. Surely the place was very high on the USSR first-strike list for exactly that reason. So Baran expected a friendly reception. After all, he’d be telling a bunch of men with a uranium death sentence...

…n making our case in the court of public opinion. In time, the publicity had its intended effect on the public, on the Justice Department, and on the courts. We began to get the message that the Reems conviction was an embarrassment. This was exactly what we had hoped would happe...

and Department of Defense; meetings with members of Congress; writing op-eds in

….” The job of this unit, called the Joint Staff Mitigation Oversight Task Force, was to attempt to contain the damage caused by the Snowden breach. In many cases, containment meant shutting down NSA operations in China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran so they could not be used to c...

…ld Trump's newly named chief strategist and senior counselor, Steve Bannon, laid out his global nationalist vision in unusually in-depth remarks delivered by Skype to a conference held inside the Vatican in the summer of 2014. Well before victories for Brexit and Trump seemed pos...

…ow not have the credibili y that he had represented, and rumors were that he had been asked to leave the Department of Justice for inappropriate billing. | told him in no uncertain terms that if his were true he would need to tell me, as he was representing my credibility with th...

 It’s an absurdly vast house, among the largest in Manhattan, but the dining room is windowless, creating a hermetic or stop-time sense, broken only by the household staff ferrying in time-of-day-appropriate foods and beverages. The real world seems terribly far away, but w...

 It’s an absurdly vast house, among the largest in Manhattan, but the dining room is windowless, creating a hermetic or stop-time sense, broken only by the household staff ferrying in time-of-day-appropriate foods and beverages. In sweatshirt, draw-string pants, palm beach...