Numbers tell the story: timing was right for report on death row reprieves
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The release of a report by the Death Penalty Information Center that 69 people on death row have been released since 1973 has raised media awareness of the capital punishment issue. Efforts to reduce death row inmates' access to the appellate process are complicated by reports that a minimum of 1% of death row inmates are innocent. DNA testing has been instrumental in proving the innocence of 23% of those released. However, DNA evidence has also been used to tie known criminals to new crimes. There is no support for the belief that death row inmates cannot get legal counsel.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1997
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Another antitrust win for the ABA
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The Third Circuit affirmed a decision to dismiss an antitrust suit against the ABA. The Feb 1997 ruling dismissed a suit brought by the Mass. School of Law (MSL), which alleged ABA accreditation rules violated antitrust law and the ABA effectively prevented MSL graduates from qualifying for state bar exams. The court applied the Noerr rule in holding that state supreme courts, rather than the ABA, would be responsible for any potential injuries to MSL, a non-ABA-accredited low-cost law school.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1997
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A lesson learned: how a U.S. Chamber of Commerce plan to boost membership by attacking lawyers backfired before it was even launched
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The US Chamber of Commerce's president Thomas J. Donohue Jr. planned to revitalize the organization with a campaign of hard criticism of the legal profession in 1997-1998. Legal organizations and individual attorneys responded with diplomatic measures such as letter writing and meeting with Chamber leadership. The Chamber changed its position from criticizing the entire legal profession to seeking specific instances in which attorneys acted contrary to the interests of the Chamber's members.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1998
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