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Reform Criminal Justice System, But Tread Carefully

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 04 2015

Criminal justice reform is an exceedingly rare contemporary issue on which the political left and right can agree. In addition to instances of prosecutorial misconduct, the sheer proliferation of criminal laws has created a thicket unfathomable even to attorneys specializing in criminal law, let alone the average reasonable American. Events this week provided another high-profile example in former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. Whatever the nature of his conduct decades ago while teaching in rural Illinois, Mr. Hastert's alleged violation was simply transferring what federal…

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