David Bruck
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David Bruck
David Isaac Bruckis an American criminal defense attorney, clinical professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, and director of the Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse. Mr. Bruck has represented several high profile defendants...
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No one is ever going to be executed under this bill. People are so horrified by a particular crime, and they want to wrap themselves in the feeling of indignation that the public understandably experiences.
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It is entirely fitting that victim survivors be heard in the criminal justice system, but a criminal trial is not an occasion for national grief and mourning. We need to separate national catharsis from the criminal justice system, otherwise we have the justice of the mob.
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It may be more than the law should expect of the human beings who sit on juries.