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Prosecutors Help People, But How Often?

Mark Bennett | January 31, 2009

Baby criminal defense lawyer Murray Newman writes:
The thing I loved the most about being a prosecutor was helping victims of crime. There was a profound feeling of doing something important when meeting with the victim’s family on a murder case, or the surviving members of an aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or assault and telling them [...]

Why We Must Keep the Church Out of Government

Mark Bennett | March 22, 2008

In my first Blog Against Theocracy 2008 post I discussed why little-r-religion — people’s religious beliefs, as opposed to big-R-Religion (the Church) — is inevitably a part of criminal justice policy.
Most churches have something to recommend them: they provide guidelines for how humans should behave in relation to each other. Don’t murder, don’t steal, don’t [...]