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Criminal Justice Reform: One Judge's View (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Jan. 14, 2016
Report Number LS_2016-01-14_01
Report Type Legal Sidebar
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently wrote an article in which herecommended 26 changes in the U.S. criminal justice system, federal and state. 44 Geo. L. J. Ann. Rev. Crim. Proc. iii(2015). The recommendations range from investigations to habeas corpus review. Two veteran Justice Departmentprosecutors have objected that Judge Kozinski's recommendations with respect to perceived prosecutorial misconductare based on isolated, unrepresentative instances, sometimes unfairly presented. Several of the proposals wouldrequire, or at least might be accomplished by, an Act of Congress. This is an abbreviated sampling of therecommendations.