American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individual convicts, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look at what happens when criminal charges are brought against a major company in the United States. Federal prosecutors benefit from expansive statutes that allow an entire firm to be held liable for a crime by a single employee. But when prosecutors target the Goliaths of the corporate world, they find themselves at a huge disadvantage. The government that bailed out corporations considered too economically important to fail also negotiates settlements permitting giant firms to avoid the consequences of criminal convictions. Presenting detailed data from more than a decade of federal cases, Brandon Garrett reveals a pattern of negotiation and settlement in which prosecutors demand admissions of wrongdoing, impose penalties, and require structural reforms. However, those reforms are usually vaguely defined. Many companies pay no criminal fine, and even the biggest blockbuster payments are often greatly reduced. While companies must cooperate in the investigations, high-level employees tend to get off scot-free. The practical reality is that when prosecutors face Hydra-headed corporate defendants prepared to spend hundreds of millions on lawyers, such agreements may be the only way to get any result at all. Too Big to Jail describes concrete ways to improve corporate law enforcement by insisting on more stringent prosecution agreements, ongoing judicial review, and greater transparency.
This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions. "That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification." The FBI was wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms. In this devastating forensic takedown, noted legal expert Brandon L. Garrett poses the questions that should be asked in courtrooms every day: Where are the studies that validate the basic premises of widely accepted techniques such as fingerprinting? How can experts testify with 100-percent certainty about a fingerprint, when there is no such thing as a 100 percent match? Where is the quality control at the crime scenes and in the laboratories? Should we so readily adopt powerful new technologies like facial recognition software and rapid DNA machines? And why have judges been so reluctant to consider the weaknesses of so many long-accepted methods? Taking us into the lives of the wrongfully convicted or nearly convicted, into crime labs rocked by scandal, and onto the front lines of promising reform efforts driven by professionals and researchers alike, Autopsy of a Crime Lab illustrates the persistence and perniciousness of shaky science and its well-meaning practitioners.
On January 20, 1984, Earl WashingtonÑdefended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty caseÑwas found guilty of rape and murder in the state of Virginia and sentenced to death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing cast doubt on his conviction and saved his life. However, he spent another eight years in prison before more sophisticated DNA technology proved his innocence and convicted the guilty man. DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unsettling in-depth analysis, Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing. Based on trial transcripts, Garrett's investigation into the causes of wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of incompetence, abuse, and error. Evidence corrupted by suggestive eyewitness procedures, coercive interrogations, unsound and unreliable forensics, shoddy investigative practices, cognitive bias, and poor lawyering illustrates the weaknesses built into our current criminal justice system. Garrett proposes practical reforms that rely more on documented, recorded, and audited evidence, and less on fallible human memory. Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be tested using DNA. How many unjust convictions are there that we will never discover? Convicting the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases.
Cover " -- "Title Page " -- "Copyright " -- "Dedication " -- "Contents" -- "1. An Awakening" -- "2. Inevitability of Innocence" -- "3. Mercy vs. Justice" -- "4. The Great American Death Penalty Decline" -- "5. The Defense-Lawyering Effect" -- "6. Murder Insurance" -- "7. The Other Death Penalty" -- "8. The Execution Decline" -- "9. End Game" -- "10. The Triumph of Mercy" -- "Appendix" -- "Notes" -- "Acknowledgments
An awakening -- Inevitability of innocence -- Mercy vs. justice -- The great American death penalty decline -- The defense lawyering effect -- Murder insurance -- The other death penalty -- The execution decline -- End game -- The triumph of mercy
How to Get On The Career Fast Track" is a must-read if you are struggling with your job and feel stuck, trapped, miserable, unfulfilled, uninspired, unappreciated, or even at a dead end in your career and dream of something better. Brandon Grieve breaks down his proven, 5-step system for landing your dream job, faster than you ever thought possible! He peels back the curtain to reveal his past struggles and subsequent rise to career success, and better yet, shows you how you can do the same. Read "How To Get On The Career Fast Track" if you want to: - Take control of your career - Wake up excited to go to work - Experience a greater sense of purpose - Earn what you are really worth
Tis the season to celebrate, to love, to dream, to hope. Unfortunately, many people have lost almost everything they have - including hope in this most festive and beautiful of times. Across the globe, authors, illustrators, and artists of all sorts have come together in the anthology you now hold in your hands with one goal in mind. To give hope. To spread love. To give people a chance to dream again. Christmas Lites V is a special anthology. Every dime raised goes directly to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). Not a single person who worked on this book or donated their time and their art form to it receives anything from it, other than the knowledge that he/she is making a difference in those affected by domestic violence. Inside these pages are stories of all genres-Romance, fantasy, horror, action, children's stories, stories written BY children. Please, dive inside, read, laugh, and spread the love and joy.
The death penalty is contested across modern social, political, academic, and legal institutions, and this interdisciplinary text helps readers analyze that debate. It begins with Furman v. Georgia, which doubles as the Supreme Court's only decision striking down the death penalty and as the origin of modern American capital punishment. The text explores the legal rules and moral reasoning behind the principle that the death penalty be reserved for the worst offenders, as well as the most uncomfortable realities of American capital punishment--the likelihood of wrongful executions and the undeniable influence of race on death penalty practice. Discussion of law and theory is always supplemented with appropriate empirical studies, and is connected to the practice of lawyers on the ground. The text concludes with a glimpse to the future of the death penalty, and situates the increasingly exceptional American experience in an international context."--
Abstract: Modern jazz education often focuses exclusively on harmonic aspects, although a thorough knowledge of rhythm in jazz is also imperative to becoming a well-rounded player. Many beginning and intermediate jazz students are taught about which scales and arpeggios they should play over each chord progression, while the rhythmic aspect is often ignored. A strong foundation in rhythm allows the improvisers to rhythmically lock in with one another and perform their improvised melodic lines, comping patterns, or even walking bass lines with confidence. Throughout numerous interviews with famous jazz musicians, many have discussed why rhythm is a keystone element of the music. Louie Bellson, a jazz drummer who performed with players such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Ella Fitzgerald, stated that Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie “would always talk about knowing where [beat] one was. That’s very important, because if you don’t know where one is, you’ve lost everybody.”1 The emphasis of beat one, rhythmic contrast, and rhythmic motives can be found throughout alto saxophonist Kenny Garret’s solo on the tune “Reedus’ Dance” from Introducing Kenny Garret (1984). His use of rhythmic motives allows the audience to grab onto certain melodic phrases because of the repetition of the rhythms. In addition, Garrett places an emphasis on rhythmic contrast in his solo, allowing him to play melodic lines that do not always follow conventional rules. For example, this concept allows him to play unconventional chord tones throughout his solo, such as a major seventh on a dominant seventh chord. Finally, Garrett emphasizes where beat one is by playing notes on the first beat of each chord change. In this project report, I will argue that Garrett’s approach to rhythm is a significant component of his signature style. footnote: Rick Mattingly, The Drummer's Time: Conversations with the Great Drummers of Jazz (Cedar Grove: Modern Drummer Publications, 1998), 8.
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