Marvin Zalman is a professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Wayne State University. He teaches classes on constitutional criminal procedure, criminal justice policy and wrongful convictions. He was commenting on a column about a racist joke that Chief Judge Richard Cebull circulated via email. By Marvin Zalman For ticklethewire.com I too was outraged by the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — After screwing up the case against Sen. Ted Stevens, the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section will get another chance — this time with ex-Sen. John Edwards– to prove it can take down a high profile public figure without any major goofs. You might recall the Public Integrity Section convicted…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Every young lawyer remembers the guy who gave him his first real job. For me and some others, it was a mark of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com James K. Robinson, who became the Detroit U.S. Attorney in the late 1970s at age 34, and later became a high-ranking Justice Department official, died Friday at age 66, the Grand Rapids Press reported. The Grand Rapids native died at his vacation home in Park City, Utah, the Grand Rapids Press…
