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REMINDER: PCJI Presents Making A Murderer Discussion

making a murdererPlease join the Pace Criminal Justice Institute (PCJI) on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 6:00-9:00 PM in the Pace Law School Moot Court Room for an event: Legal, Ethical and Practical Issues: A Panel Discussion on the Netflix Documentary Series ‘Making A Murderer’. Join us as panelists including Professors Carol Barry, David Dorfman, Lissa Griffin, Jill Gross, and alumnus Chris McNerney (’06), Chief of Greenburgh Police, discuss the legal and ethical issues raised by this documentary. Attendees can earn up to 3.5 CLE credits (1.5 ethics and 2.0 professional practice).

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REMINDER: PCJI Presents Making A Murderer Discussion

making a murdererPlease join the Pace Criminal Justice Institute (PCJI) on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 6:00-9:00 PM in the Pace Law School Moot Court Room for an event: Legal, Ethical and Practical Issues: A Panel Discussion on the Netflix Documentary Series ‘Making A Murderer’. Join us as panelists including Professors Carol Barry, David Dorfman, Lissa Griffin, Jill Gross, and alumnus Chris McNerney (’06), Chief of Greenburgh Police, discuss the legal and ethical issues raised by this documentary. Attendees can earn up to 3.5 CLE credits (1.5 ethics and 2.0 professional practice).

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PCJI Presents Making A Murderer Discussion

MaMPlease join the Pace Criminal Justice Institute on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 6:00-9:00 PM in the Pace Law School Moot Court Room for an event: Legal, Ethical and Practical Issues: A Panel Discussion on the Netflix Documentary Series ‘Making A Murderer’. Join us as panelists including Professors Carol Barry, David Dorfman, and Lissa Griffin, and alumnus Chris McNerney (’06), Chief of Greenburgh Police, discuss the legal and ethical issues raised by this documentary. Attendees can earn up to 3.5 CLE credits (1.5 ethics and 2.0 professional practice).

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Improper Use of Technology in Courtroom Leads to Prosecutorial Misconduct

We all think and say it: images are worth a thousand words. The same is true when prosecuting a case. Prof. Bennett L. Gershman of Pace Law School, in his latest HuffPost piece titled Prosecutorial Misconduct Using Courtroom Technology,  challenges the way some prosecutors put on their cases when using technology. He suggests that many increasingly cross the line when they use technology to suggest that “‘beyond reasonable doubt’ is really not that demanding” of a standard, when they use “visual trickery” to awaken an angry and emotional reaction out of jury, or when they sway juries by showing “misleading and prejudicial images” during their closing arguments.

Prof. Gershman states that

[a]lthough there’s nothing inherently wrong with using technology in the courtroom, more and more prosecutors cross the line by exploiting the power of technology to skew the way juries analyze the evidence, and thereby prejudice a defendant’s right to a fair trial.

Check it out and share your thoughts.

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