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Incredibly excited to announce that I've been awarded a Fulbright to study at the Australian National University in spring 2024.
I'll be conducting research for my new book project on criminal sentencing in common law countries.
Carissa Byrne Hessick
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Carissa Byrne Hessick
@CBHessick
Criminal law professor at the University of North Carolina.
Director of the Prosecutors and Politics Project (@ppp_unc).
Author of "Punishment Without Trial."
- It seems clear to me that when government officials use Signal, WhatsApp, private servers etc to communicate about government business, they are doing so in order to avoid transparency laws. That should be a scandal even if a reporter isn’t accidentally added to the group chat.
- Hi Everyone: Just a quick reminder that in-person debates are a terrible way to test the merits of ideas. All they test is the verbal agility and rhetorical style of their participants. Signed, A Very Successful College Debator
- The President is on Fox News right now saying that maybe the FBI and the Department of Justice were involved in the supposed election fraud in the 2020 election. When will this nightmare end?
- I'd be interested to see a Venn diagram of folks saying that an attempted rape from many years ago should have no bearing on whether someone can become a Supreme Court Justice and those who support lifetime registration for sex offenders.
- The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that it's up to citizens to refuse to cooperate with police if they want to protect their Fourth Amendment rights against search & seizure Yet this police officer literally shot a boy who asked "why" when police told him to get out of his car
- Widely circulated photos claiming to show police officers injured in Seattle and Portland protests this weekend are actually old pictures from Australia. More evidence that “law & order” campaign issues need far more scrutiny.
- If Lindsay Graham thinks non violent first time offenders should not spend time in prison, then he should use his powerful position as chair of the Judiciary committee to change the sentencing ranges of federal statutes and sentencing guidelines to accomplish that result.In my view it would be justified if President @realDonaldTrump decided to commute Roger Stone's prison sentence. Mr. Stone is in his 70s and this was a non-violent, first-time offense. foxnews.com/politics/presi…
- It should be a bigger scandal that Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, was indicted more than 5 years ago and has fired a bunch of whistleblowers in his office who accused him of bribery and corruption. Instead, the former president just endorsed his reelection.
- This is not how criminal law works.Replying to @newsguyusa and @BernieSandersAt L.A. rally, @BernieSanders says, if elected, he'll legalize #marijuana in all 50 states by executive order and expunge the records of all those who've been arrested for pot possession.
- Seems like a good time to remind everyone that Ken Paxton is under indictment for fraud, and that seven whistleblowers in his office have resigned, been fired, or placed on leave.Ken Paxton of Texas and 10 other state attorneys general argued in an amicus brief that the Biden administration could not be trusted. wapo.st/3BB8Bkn
- I don’t know who needs to hear this—aside from Laura Ingraham’s viewers, that is—but the situation she’s described here is quite literally the crime of bribery, *not* attempted bribery.Laura Ingraham: "Attempted bribery isn't in the Constitution"
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