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...institution of the jury is a mixed blessing. Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, in his recently published Contrary to Popular Opinion, describes the American jury as the "conscience of the community." This "quixotic conscience," he says, sometimes reflects the best of what we stand for and other times the worst. Thus, in the '60s, all-white juries acquitted Klansmen who had murdered civil rights workers in the South and today, inner city juries acquit Black defendants charged with murdering law enforcement officials--a trend of minority distrust of police officers that was evident in the Kahane and Rosenbaum cases...
According to Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, the Task Force definition also undercuts the idea that "no means...
...political, knee-jerk response to the radical politics of today and makes very little sense," says Dershowitz, who is currently representing boxer Mike Tyson in his appeal of a rape conviction earlier this year...
While proponents of the Task Force definition said the college environment justified the narrower definition, Dershowitz says the concept of expressed consent has dangerous implications...
Alternate: ALAN DERSHOWITZ--Glitz,glamour and chutzpah. Big on first amendment.Short on humility...