Document Type
Article
Abstract
Each month, as I prepare to draft this column, I place new judicial opinions from the Illinois criminal courts into a file folder. I also add newspaper clips covering all sorts of crime-related topics, from flawed police procedures, to unusual charging decisions, to strange defense strategies, to unlikely convictions and exonerations. At the end of the month, the folder is an olio of criminal-law topics. But there’s always a common thread running through the pieces. On first reading, each item seems counterintuitive or misguided in some way. It leaves me scratching my head and wanting to figure out the unexamined assumptions that led to the rule or practice coming about in the first place.
Publication Date
5-15-2014
Recommended Citation
Marc D. Falkoff, Fascinating Legal Questions Posed in Recent Criminal Law Cases, Chicago Daily L. Bull., May 15, 2014.
Department
College of Law
ISSN
0362-6148
Language
eng
Publisher
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Suggested Citation
Marc D. Falkoff, Fascinating Legal Questions Posed in Recent Criminal Law Cases, Chicago Daily L. Bull., May 15, 2014.
