OT: Ex- PSU President Spanier's Conviction Overturned

[Rufaninga]

Not a lawyer, but I can't argue with the judge's rationale. Being charged with violating a law retroactively seems unconstitutional.

what about in today's times, legalizing marijuana in n states and now they are processes being put in place to over turn convictions tied only to it? I agree with clearing records now, but seems there is double standard going on.

 

[GSGS]

Personally, I'd like to see Sara Gamin get back into this story.

… and I'd like to see PA D.A. Ray Gricar get back involved in the investigation.

 

[retired711]

what about in today's times, legalizing marijuana in n states and now they are processes being put in place to over turn convictions tied only to it? I agree with clearing records now, but seems there is double standard going on.

Expunging a conviction after the fact is a lot different than punishing someone for conduct that wasn't clearly illegal when they did it.

 

[DJ Spanky]

 

[RutgersMO]

We heard you were outstanding in your field!!!

Camden

You can do it!

Pre med....pre law : what's the difference?



MO

 

[Hondo77]

Not sure what you're talking about.

Neither is he.

 

[Hondo77]

White-collar crimes and federal criminal law are hardly covered at virtually all law schools, so your situation is not surprising. I know there are lawyers practicing in the fields, but I don't know any of them. For that matter, I think very few students know anything about habeas corpus. I know a little because I took a Federal Courts course in my third year of law school, and the professor decided to break from his usual pattern and cover habeas.

There is just so much we don't cover, especially now that students can take clinical courses rather than all substance. This is why law schools should focus not so much on teaching law, but on teaching students how to teach themselves the law because that's what they'll have to do in their carers.

 

[DJ Spanky]