Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. In the twenty-third episode of the first series, the hosts introduce the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in a dicussion of how malleable laws increase prosecutotial discretion and power. The hosts examine prior court cases where the CFAA was charged, including United States v Rodriguez (2010), John v United States (2013), United States v Valle (2015), and United States v Nosal (2017). Additionally, the hosts analyze the possible outcomes and inplications of Van Buren v United States, the first case involving the CFAA that will go before the Supreme Court. Finally, the hosts consider how the CFAA can be improved and how the CFAA could limit prosecutorial discretion. The resources used for reference in this episode include: https://academic.oup.com/jpart/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jopart/muaa017/5837923 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/77.3.1163 https://law.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/National-Study-Prosecutor-Elections-2020.pdf https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/online/vol50/Sklansky.pdf https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/thedigs/2014/10/13/anne-alpern-first-woman-on-pennsylvanias-high-court/ https://www.acslaw.org/event/progressive-prosecution-and-the-carceral-state/#:~:text=Proponents%20of%20%E2%80%9Cprogressive%20prosecution%E2%80%9D%20commonly,limiting%20the%20number%20of%20people https://www.fairvote.org/voter_turnout#measuring_voter_turnout https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/03/in-year-of-record-midterm-turnout-women-continued-to-vote-at-higher-rates-than-men/ https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/01/16/facing-intimidation-black-women-prosecutors-say-enough https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030  https://www.nacdl.org/Landing/ComputerFraudandAbuseAct  https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-11th-circuit/1549806.html  https://www.eff.org/cases/van-buren-v-united-states  https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-783/146727/20200701130402295_19- 783BriefForPetitioner.pdf  https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/16-1344-Nosal-petition.pdf  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._John_(2010)  https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1719750.html A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use his outstanding recording equipment. Taylor Cunningham performed the editing this week. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, or criticisms, please contact us via: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros poli.n.pros@gmail.com More episodes of this podcast can be found on iTunes and Spotify.

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The twenty-second episode of the first looks broadly at the notion of progressive prosecutors. Since 2016, a new wave of prosecutors have won elected office. They promise to reform the criminal court process in order to rectify perceived biases and undue harshness. This episode explores who they are and what they believe. https://www.nap.edu/read/10114/chapter/3 https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/law/academics-faculty/law-reviews/bclr/e-supp-online/taking-a-deeper-dive-into-progressive-prosecution-evaluating-the-trend-through-the-lens-of-geography-part-one-internal-constraints.html https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=flro https://www.texasobserver.org/kim-ogg-progressive-prosecutor-harris-county/ https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/12/the-paradox-of-progressive-prosecution/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/americas-new-crop-of-progressive-prosecutors-are-getting-pushback/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/progressive-prosecutors-aim-change-criminal-justice-system-inside/story?id=73371317 https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/12/the-paradox-of-progressive-prosecution/#:~:text=Fundamentally%2C%20progressive%20prosecutors%20seek%20to%20rebalance%20the%20use,those%20punitive%20measures%2C%20or%2C%20at%20least%2C%20divert%20them. https://fairandjustprosecution.org/about-fjp/our-work-and-vision/ https://medium.com/fair-and-just-prosecution/21-principles-for-the-21st-century-prosecutor-dc1bf0f2732b https://fairandjustprosecution.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FJP_21Principles_Interactive-w-destinations.pdf https://fairandjustprosecution.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FJPBrief.Immigration.9.25.pdf https://fairandjustprosecution.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FJPBrief.Police-Accountability.9.25.pdf https://tjcinstitute.com/research/the-case-for-comprehensive-marijuana-reform-policies-public-opinion/ https://fairandjustprosecution.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FJPBrief.Marijuana.9.25.pdf https://fairandjustprosecution.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/COVID-19-Solutions-at-a-Glance-8-28-20.pdf https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/63-prosecutors-pledge-criminalize-abortion-roe-wade-overturned/story?id=73606211 https://fairandjustprosecution.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Joint-Statement-from-Elected-Prosecutors-on-Abortion-Laws-10-14-20.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuHbk5BR3cU https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/295/78 https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-introbusiness/chapter/meaning-and-purposes-of-the-law/ https://www.coursehero.com/file/p6m3ntr/Define-compare-and-contrast-the-three-political-styles-of-prosecutors-Which/ https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/nclr89&div=63&g_sent=1&casa_token=&collection=journals https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/clr108&div=11&g_sent=1&casa_token=&collection=journals A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use his outstanding recording equipment. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, or criticisms, please contact us via: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros poli.n.pros@gmail.com More episodes of this podcast can be found on iTunes and Spotify.

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The twenty-first episode of the first series examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state, and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. On October 19, 2020, the Department of Justice held a press conference to announce the indictment of 6 Russian hackers. The facts of the case are briefly outlined. We use this specific case and press conference to frame a discussion about the relationship between prosecutors and the media. Specifically, we examine if the relationship between the media is prosecutors is positive or negative and is the media an effect check on prosecutorial power. Sources: https://www.justice.gov/opa/video/six-russian-gru-officers-charged-connection-worldwide-deployment-destructive-malware-and https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/six-russian-gru-officers-charged-connection-worldwide-deployment-destructive-malware-and A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use his outstanding recording equipment. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, or criticisms, please contact us via: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros poli.n.pros@gmail.com More episodes of this podcast can be found on iTunes and Spotify.

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The twentieth episode of the first series discussed the prosecution of mask wearing and how politics come into play with prosecutorial decisions. We began by discussing COVID-19 this year and its implications, then the laws and orders that were put into place in order to reduce COVID-19 spread. We then discussed if the government should be allowed to make people wear masks, the differences in state laws for COVID, how politics come into play with these decisions, and if there are any correlations between political perspectives and COVID-19. https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-basics https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3.19.20-attested-EO-N-33-20-COVID-19-HEALTH-ORDER.pdf https://www.kff.org/other/slide/when-state-stay-at-home-orders-due-to-coronavirus-went-into-effect/ https://www.law.com/therecorder/2020/06/29/can-the-government-force-americans-to-wear-masks/?slreturn=20200929100917 https://www.klfy.com/local/how-mask-violations-could-and-could-not-be-prosecuted/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109004/coronavirus-covid19-cases-rate-us-americans-by-state/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/17/upshot/coronavirus-face-mask-map.html https://masks4all.co/what-states-require-masks/ http://politicalmaps.org/ https://drydenwire.com/news/barron-county-da-says-office-we-will-not-prosecute-referrals-for-violations-of-mask-mandate/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/here-are-the-cities-and-counties-in-wisconsin-that-have-issued-policies-requiring-people-to-wear-a-mask-in-public-spaces/ar-BB16MZ4O https://www.wilx.com/2020/10/04/michigan-attorney-general-to-no-longer-enforce-governors-covid-19-executive-orders/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/here-are-the-cities-and-counties-in-wisconsin-that-have-issued-policies-requiring-people-to-wear-a-mask-in-public-spaces/ar-BB16MZ4O https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/18/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html https://www.klfy.com/local/how-mask-violations-could-and-could-not-be-prosecuted/ A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use his outstanding recording equipment. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, or criticisms, please contact us via: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros poli.n.pros@gmail.com More episodes of this podcast can be found on iTunes and Spotify.

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The nineteenth episode of the first series, features a look into the prosecution behind protests in the United States. With mass-amounts of protests and civil unrest throughout the summer of 2020, this group looks at the history of protests in America, as well as multiple current cases where protestors have either turned violent or remained peaceful. They then discuss the impact that prosecutors can have on cases like this and how it affects our first amendment rights. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-09/hundreds-were-arrested-for-peacefully-protesting-here-are-their-stories https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-09-27/portand-oregon-police-make-arrests-at-downtown-rally https://katu.com/news/local/protester-accused-of-jumping-on-officers-back-during-arrest-in-portland https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/oregon-resident-accused-interfering-police-making-arrests-during-civil-disorder-portland https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-ex-paralegal-indicted-by-federal-grand-jury-for-violent-rioting https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/ https://www.kosu.org/post/multiple-okc-protestors-charged-terrorism-rioting-assault-and-battery#:~:text=District%20Attorney%20David%20Prater%20charged,battery%20on%20a%20police%20officer.&text=Referring%20to%20the%20terrorism%20charges,be%20treated%20like%20a%20terrorist.%22 https://theintercept.com/2020/08/27/black-lives-matter-protesters-terrorism-felony-charges/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/15/breonna-taylor-protest-felony-charges/ https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/6/1/21277363/lets-start-riot-galesburg-man-federal-charge-related-rioting-chicago https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/LSB10493.pdf https://www.ocregister.com/2020/09/17/300-and-counting-push-by-feds-to-arrest-in-us-protests/ https://www.stl.news/isaiah-thomas-willoughby-charged-with-arson-for-setting-fire/336625/ https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/man-charged-arson-setting-fire-seattle-s-east-police-precinct-during-capitol-hill https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/844 https://www.ucf.edu/news/7-influential-protests-in-american-history/ https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt1_4_1/ A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use his outstanding recording equipment. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, or criticisms, please contact us via: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros poli.n.pros@gmail.com More episodes of this podcast can be found on iTunes and Spotify.

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. In the eighteenth episode of the first series, the hosts challenge their assumptions that minority groups will automatically support each other by examining the relationship between gender and prosecution, more specifically focusing on female prosecutors and the idea of progressive prosecution. To determine if female prosecutors are linked with a more progressive prosecutorial ideology, the hosts analyze historical experiences of women in politics and the criminal justice system as well as data collected on district attorneys from all fifty states. Additionally, the hosts discuss other individual factors that could affect gender politics, including race and region. The resources used for reference in this episode include: • https://academic.oup.com/jpart/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jopart/muaa017/5837923 • https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/77.3.1163 • https://law.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/National-Study-Prosecutor-Elections-2020.pdf • https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/online/vol50/Sklansky.pdf • https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/thedigs/2014/10/13/anne-alpern-first-woman-on-pennsylvanias-high-court/ • https://www.acslaw.org/event/progressive-prosecution-and-the-carceral-state/#:~:text=Proponents%20of%20%E2%80%9Cprogressive%20prosecution%E2%80%9D%20commonly,limiting%20the%20number%20of%20people • https://www.fairvote.org/voter_turnout#measuring_voter_turnout • https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/03/in-year-of-record-midterm-turnout-women-continued-to-vote-at-higher-rates-than-men/ • https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html • https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/01/16/facing-intimidation-black-women-prosecutors-say-enough A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use his outstanding recording equipment. Taylor Cunningham performed the editing this week. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, or criticisms, please contact us via: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros poli.n.pros@gmail.com More episodes of this podcast can be found on iTunes and Spotify.

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. This seventeenth episode takes an in-depth look at how purposeful COVID-19 spread is being prosecuted across the nation. There are many examples of intentional spread, with varying degrees of magnitude that have occurred since the initial outbreak. From individuals at grocery stores intentionally coughing on others to white supremacy groups targeting Jewish communities with the virus. We ask whether all of these cases should be prosecuted the same or if new laws should be made to apply to particular cases. Sources: https://casetext.com/statute/united-states-code/title-18-crimes-and-criminal-procedure/part-i-crimes/chapter-113b-terrorism/section-2332a-use-of-weapons-of-mass-destruction https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-fries-10 https://abc30.com/white-supremacist-coronavirus-neo-nazi-hate-crime-new-york/6038813/ https://www.lawfareblog.com/prosecuting-purposeful-coronavirus-exposure-terrorism https://ndaa.org/wp-content/uploads/COVID_HealthSafetyFocusGroupResults_Clickable_Final.pdf https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases20/pr20200324b.html https://triblive.com/news/2-in-pennsylvania-new-jersey-accused-of-coughing-on-people-citing-coronavirus/ https://www.foxnews.com/health/pennsylvania-coughing-prank-suspect-arrested-charged-after-35g-in-groceries-tossed https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/20/england-imposes-up-to-13000-fine-for-breaking-covid-19-rules Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. This sixteenth episode analyzes the police shooting of Jonathan Price. Police Officer Shaun Lucas shot Price after Price apparently intervened in a domestic violence incident. Lucas shot Price as the incident progressed. Lucas was subsequently charged. This episode evaluates the case in light of Texas homicide statutes and self defense statutes. Sources: • https://abcnews.go.com/US/attorney-amber-guyger-retained-officer-shot-jonathan-price/story?id=73464013 • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/10/06/jonathan-price-shooting-texas-officer-shaun-lucas-attorney/5905092002/ • https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.38.htm#38.04 • https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/docs/PE/htm/PE.9.htm • https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-police-officer-charged-death-black-man-family/story?id=73445272 • https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.19.htm • https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/docs/PE/htm/PE.6.htm • https://wolfecitytx.org/wolfe-city-statement-10-8-2020/ • https://abcnews.go.com/US/bodycam-footage-suggests-jonathan-price-shooting-unwarranted-affidavit/story?id=73484654 • https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&met_y=population&idim=sub_county:4879948&hl=en&dl=en • https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/affidavit-jonathan-price-offered-texas-officer-handshake-asked-how-he-was-before-being-killed/ZE7UFWSQLZGIZDD5CYVTGJAT4Q/ • https://twitter.com/RozierReports/status/1313888533053157378/photo/1 • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-police-officer-charged-fatal-shooting-jonathan-price-had-been-n1242428 • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/they-took-my-baby-man-killed-texas-police-after-intervening-n1242132 • https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/trending/texas-police-officer-charged-jonathan-prices-shooting-death-fired/ILOTNLW3IZAM5AMVRFDSBV6XZE/ • https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-19-02.html • https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-6-03.html • https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.19.htm#19.01 • https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/pdf/PE.9.pdf • https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/SOTWDocs/PE/htm/PE.9.htm • https://www.nap.edu/read/10114/chapter/3 Mythology by MusicbyAden https://soundcloud.com/musicbyaden; Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0; Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_mythology; Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/e48pGUx_cxU Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. This fifteenth episode focuses on election and voter fraud. With the repeated allegations of voter fraud and vote suppression, an examination of voter fraud cases seems particularly appropriate. We discuss the different types of voter fraud. Additionally, we highlight four cases from different states across the country. Through these cases, we show how different prosecutors will handle these types of cases differently. We conclude with a discussion about how avoid voter fraud in the future, and explore the question: will voter fraud become more highly prosecuted after the election? Sources: https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/search https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/temp-tossed-pennsylvania-ballots-trump-complained-about-official-says-n1241128 https://www.fox29.com/news/man-charged-with-voter-fraud-accused-of-filling-out-absentee-ballot-for-deceased-individual https://www.delcotimes.com/news/collingdale-man-charged-with-voter-fraud/article_cb571234-ed0f-11e8-86ed-ef972a825af1.html https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/918601/download http://theavtimes.com/2020/07/29/four-plead-no-contest-in-voter-fraud-case/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/skid-row-vote-fraudsters-preyed-l-homeless-authorities-charge-n938716 https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/heritage-explains/voter-fraud https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/nineteen-foreign-nationals-charged-voting-2016-election https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/skid-row-vote-fraudsters-preyed-l-homeless-authorities-charge-n938716 Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. This fourteenth episode features a look into a current case with the Attorney General of South Dakota after he struck a man with his car, fatally injuring him. They give a thorough breakdown at current statues in South Dakota and how to elect and remove an Attorney General from office and a breakdown of the current case facts. They then go through three past cases with Attorneys General or other political officials who have gotten into trouble legally or publicly that caused them to resign. They then discuss the possible implications of the South Dakota Attorney’s General case and how they think that should be determined. They then move into voter discretion and if the past crimes of Attorneys Generals should be disclosed when they run for office. Sources: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913100631/s-d-s-attorney-general-fatally-strikes-man-with-car-says-he-thought-he-hit-a-dee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_South_Dakota#:~:text=The%20Attorney%20General%20of%20South,the%20state's%20chief%20legal%20officer. https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/south-dakota-attorney-general-was-frequent-traveler-before-fatal-crash/article_9b203fe7-379a-5297-b242-67721c62d74a.html https://atg.sd.gov/ https://ballotpedia.org/Attorney_General_office_comparison https://ballotpedia.org/Jason_Ravnsborg https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/crime/2020/09/14/jason-ravnsborg-south-dakota-attorney-general-crash-speeding/5792808002/ https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/03/19/former-utah-attorney/ https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/ten-years-ago-ohio-had-its-own-attorney-general-scandal/8J3efpQWKp3lZQQPDjO5DK/ https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse https://www.governing.com/now/Why-So-Many-Attorneys-General-Are-Getting-Into-Trouble.html https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-finds-indiana-attorney-general-curtis-hill-groped/story?id=70634926 https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime--law/attorney-general-due-court-today/pjNruBweekyTtz5AoMyEiI/ https://www.npr.org/2018/11/08/665673141/eric-schneiderman-wont-face-criminal-charges-over-allegations-of-abuse https://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/29/janklow.charged/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/22/janklow.sentencing/ https://www.dispatch.com/news/20170814/marc-dann-i-was-jerk-as-ohio-attorney-general https://www.naag.org/naag/about_naag.php https://ballotpedia.org/Attorney_General_office_comparison https://ballotpedia.org/Attorney_General_of_South_Dakota https://law.justia.com/codes/south-dakota/2019/title-3/chapter-17/section-3-17-3/ https://law.justia.com/codes/south-dakota/2019/title-3/chapter-17/section-3-17-4/ https://law.justia.com/codes/south-dakota/2019/title-3/chapter-17/section-3-17-6/ https://law.justia.com/codes/south-dakota/2019/title-3/chapter-17/section-3-17-12/ https://law.justia.com/codes/south-dakota/2019/title-3/chapter-17/section-3-17-13/ https://www.americanbar.org/groups/criminal_justice/standards/ProsecutionFunctionFourthEdition/ https://law.jrank.org/pages/6204/District-Prosecuting-Attorneys.html https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Senate_Impeachment_Role.htm https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Constitution/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=0N-4-7 Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The thirteenth episode of the first series pays tribute to the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away on September 18th, 2020. This episode examines the controversy over RBG's open seat on the Supreme Court and Amy Coney Barrett's potential appointment. The hosts compare the jurisprudence of both women in regards to prosecutorial power and discuss whether Coney Barrett will rule in favor of limiting the malleability of laws for prosecutors. Additionally, this episode explores how current methods of prosecutorial accountability fail and whether the SCOTUS could become an effective check on prosecutorial discretion. The resources used for reference in this episode include:  https://www.bu.edu/sph/2018/07/12/supreme-court-justices-do-make-the-law/  https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/rbg-supreme-court-decisions-dissents/index.html  https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/09/19/what-you-need-to-know-about-amy-coney-barrett-trumps-leading-supreme-court-pick/#1daab9c32161  https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/c.php?g=365722&p=2471070  https://home.heinonline.org/blog/2020/09/i-dissent-the-life-and-legacy-of-the-incomparable-ruth-bader-ginsburg/  https://heinonline.org/HOL/AuthorProfile?collection=journals&search_name=Ginsburg,%20Ruth%20Bader&base=js  https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/utol26&div=9&g_sent=1&casa_token=&collection=journals  https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/71379/OSLJ_V70N4_0867.pdf  https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/ginsburg.dec.html  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9780230102354_7  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/09/how-supreme-court-vacancies-confirmed/#close  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/us/politics/supreme-court-barrett.html  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-every-republican-senator-has-said-about-filling-a-supreme-court-vacancy-in-an-election-year  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/20/ruth-bader-ginsburg-conservatism-418821  https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/09/profile-of-a-potential-nominee-amy-coney-barrett/  https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/09/23/rbg-s-mixed-record-on-race-and-criminal-justice A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use his outstanding recording equipment. Taylor Cunningham performed the editing this week. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, or criticisms, please contact us via: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros poli.n.pros@gmail.com More episodes of this podcast can be found on iTunes and Spotify.

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. This twelfth episode discusses how the global pandemic has affect the criminal courts. There is little precedent for what COVID-19 has done to courts, laws, and prosecution. Various aspects of the typical court process had to be amended to comply with health precautions and public safety needs. These restrictions must be considered in the context of people’s Constitutional rights. Changes made to balance these competing demands include prison capacities, new practices for prosecutors in staying safe from COVID, keeping front-line officers like police safe from exposure, and de-prioritizing arrests that are less dangerous. The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://www.uscourts.gov/news/2020/07/16/some-courts-slow-reopening-plans-covid-cases-rise https://ndaa.org/wp-content/uploads/COVID19_ProtectiveMeasures_Pros ecutorsCourts.pdf https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article244393022.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/covid-domestic-violence.html?auth=login-email&lo gin=email https://ndaa.org/covid-19/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/covid-domestic-violence.html?auth=login-email&login=email Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. This eleventh episode considers the national debate about the death penalty. It examines the death penalty from the perspective of national uniformity. As it currently stands a person who commits murder in one state may receive the death penalty but a person who commits the same murder in a different state may not. The results from individual states having the discretion to determine for themselves whether to permit the death penalty or not. The episode considers whether this should remain or whether the federal government or Supreme Court should intervene to create a more uniform system. The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/execution/origins-of-capital-punishment/ https://www.aclu.org/issues/capital-punishment https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/methods-of-execution https://deathpenalty.procon.org/forms-of-execution-in-the-united-states/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/capitalpunishment/for_1.shtml#h1 https://files.deathpenaltyinfo.org/legacy/podcast/resources/Episode14LegalProcess.pdf https://www.aclu.org/blog/capital-punishment/truth-about-choosing-between-life-and-death https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiy07KTt_DrAhUjZN8KHWR6DmAQFjACegQIDBAF&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebalance.com%2Fcomparing-the-costs-of-death-penalty-vs-life-in-prison-4689874&usg=AOvVaw1RMpwFFtPlt0EXrCg4pu18 https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=supr https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=supr https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=supr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/texas-death-penalty https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt8-2-2-1/ALDE_00000967/ https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt8_2_2_2_3_1/ https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-and-federal-info/state-by-state https://www.britannica.com/topic/legislation-politics/Uniform-laws https://www.uniformlaws.org/aboutulc/overview https://www.uniformlaws.org/acts/overview/uniformacts https://www.law.cornell.edu/uniform https://www.uniformlaws.org/acts/ucc https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol29_2002/spring2002/hr_spring02_vitiello/ https://www.courts.ca.gov/20142.htm https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/process/sentencing/three-strikes-law/#1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law#:~:text=Twenty-eight%20states%20have%20some%20form%20of%20a%20%22three-strikes%22,unique%20term%20%22%20prior%20and%20persistent%20offender%20%22. https://www.aclu.org/other/10-reasons-oppose-3-strikes-youre-out Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. This tenth episode features a breakdown of the EPA through different presidential administrations and how its investigating and prosecuting environmental crimes is effected by the different administrations. They specifically look at the Obama Administration’s Clean Water Rule and the Trump Administrations repeal of it and the reevaluation of the Waters of the United States. They then look at a current case being prosecuted and speculate how they think this would be prosecuted in the Obama Administration vs the Trump Administration. They also talk about how the upcoming election this November could have an effect on the EPA’s prosecutorial power and discretion. The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/15-ways-trump-administration-impacted-environment/ https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/basic-information-enforcement https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/history-clean-water-act https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2019/03/27/467697/debunking-trump-administrations-new-water-rule/ https://www.justice.gov/usao-sc/pr/columbia-man-indicted-federal-charge-dumping-hazardous-waste https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/us/obama-epa-clean-water-pollution.html https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/clean-water https://www.pbs.org/now/science/cleanwater.html https://web.archive.org/web/20170108114336/https://www.ok.gov/oag/Media/About_the_AG/ https://www.sierraclub.org/lay-of-the-land/2014/03/obama-administration-restores-clean-water-act-protections-streams-and https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798809951/trump-administration-is-rolling-back-obama-era-protections-for-smaller-waterways) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/33/1319 https://www.justice.gov/usao/resources/annual-statistical-reports https://www.safewater.org/fact-sheets-1/2017/1/23/cleaning-up-after-pollution#:~:text=This%20process%20typically%20takes%20between,to%20go%20on%20for%20decades. https://www.justice.gov/usao/resources/annual-statistical-reports https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/our-mission-and-what-we-do https://www.justice.gov/enrd/about-division https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/06/29/2015-13435/clean-water-rule-definition-of-waters-of-the-united-states https://www.oyez.org/cases/2005/04-1034 https://www.justice.gov/enrd/jeffrey-bossert-clark https://cfpub.epa.gov/compliance/criminal_prosecution/index.cfm?action=3&prosecution_summary_id=2416 https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063639213 https://www.npr.org/2018/07/05/594078923/scott-pruitt-out-at-epa https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/27/trump-to-direct-rollback-of-obama-era-water-rule-tuesday/ Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. This ninth episode looks at the idea of prosecutorial discretion. Prosecutors hold a lot of power with little to no checks on this power. Prosecutors have extreme discretion when determining which cases to take and what charges are appropriate. To examine prosecutorial discretion, we dive into the case involving the shooting of Rayshard Brooks by Atlanta police officer, Garrett Rolfe. Following a timeline of events, we discuss the charges brought against Rolfe by prosecutor Paul Howard. We conclude with a conversation about the potential pressures that are placed on the prosecutor, specifically public opinion and legislative power. The sources used for reference in this episode are: • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/15/what-we-know-how-rayshard-brooks-killing-led-protests-atlanta-wendys/3189901001/ • https://www.wabe.org/attorneys-for-former-atlanta-officer-charged-in-rayshard-brooks-slaying-want-prosecutor-removed/ • https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/paul-howard-ousted-after-serving-more-than-2-decades-as-fulton-county-da • https://advance.lexis.com/container/?pdmfid=1000516&crid=498c7b76-75af-4926-8ba7-5145e8de8fcd&config=00JAAzZDgzNzU2ZC05MDA0LTRmMDItYjkzMS0xOGY3MjE3OWNlODIKAFBvZENhdGFsb2fcIFfJnJ2IC8XZi1AYM4Ne&ecomp=wg7dk&prid=fd4182ad-3dd6-4a09-87fd-4ba65e31c5ed • https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/08/889160799/georgia-congressman-asks-doj-to-investigate-da-handling-rayshard-brooks-case • https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/after-day-protests-atlanta-more-people-react-rayshard-brooks-death/twGJvcVGzKSAH0BXEmEOfO/ • https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/atlanta-interim-police-chief-says-da-was-too-quick-bring-charges-rayshard-brooks-shooting/WE2ERNY22RGQTCCGPCRFAXYH7A/ • https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=565.021&bid=29265&hl= • https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/490/386/ • Graham v. Connor, 490US386 (1989). Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. This is our third(!) series. This series looks closely at particular issues and how they relate to the intersection politics of prosecution and is produced by student volunteers and High Point University Criminal Justice professor Scott Ingram. The first episode in this series examines the opioid crisis in the United States and how prosecutors have addressed it. In the November 2019 elections, many prosecutors ran, in part, on the promise to prosecute people responsible for opioid overdose deaths. Prosecutors can address the problem in two ways. First they can propose legislation. Second, and more likely, they can prosecute those who distribute opioids. The episode focuses on this latter route. Sources for this episode: o https://www.georgetownbehavioral.com/blog/origin-and-causes-of-opioid-epidemic o https://www.optum.com/health-insights/opioid-crisis-myths.html o https://englishmountain.com/8-myths-about-opioids/ o People v Tseng 30 Cal.App.5th 117 (Cal.App. 2018) o Thomas v State 186 A.2d 857 (Md. App. 2018) o https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/federal-prosecutors-open-criminal-probe-of-opioid-makers-and-distributors-report-says.html A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Taylor Irish performed the editing this week. Comments, questions, concerns or criticisms? Contact us here: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros Email: poli.n.pros@gmail.com You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify.

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. This is our second series. It highlights current events where the politics of prosecution intersect and is produced by student volunteers and High Point University Criminal Justice professor Scott Ingram. The fifth episode in this series examines the President’s recent tweets about the Justice Department. Despite the Attorney General requesting that the President stop tweeting about the Department, the President continues to assert he has absolute control over the Justice Department. This assertion raises an important question about how much control the president SHOULD exert over the Justice Department. After introducing the recent events that raised the question, we have a discussion about different aspects of the problem. Sources for this episode: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/12/roger-stone-sentencing-trump-attacks-doj-prosecutors/4735847002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/11/president-trump-slams-sentencing-recommendation-roger-stone/4721747002/ https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/criminal-division https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/barr-pushes-back-against-trumps-criticism-of-justice-dept-says-tweets-make-it-impossible-for-me-to-do-my-job/2020/02/13/7ff5f308-4e7c-11ea-9b5c-eac5b16dafaa_story.html https://www.npr.org/2020/02/14/806052193/former-fbi-official-andrew-mccabe-wont-face-charges A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Taylor Irish performed the editing this week. Jeopardy theme music courtesy of: http://www.orangefreesounds.com/jeopardy-theme-song/ Comments, questions, concerns or criticisms? Contact us here: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros Email: poli.n.pros@gmail.com You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify.

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. This is our second series. It highlights current events where the politics of prosecution intersect and is produced by student volunteers and High Point University Criminal Justice professor Scott Ingram. The fourth episode in this series continues our look at the recently-completed impeachment trial by examining the “unimpeached co-conspirators.” While the President may have been acquitted, could others face criminal prosecution? We look specifically at conspiracy using primary sources collected by the website Just Security. After recounting the timeline, we evaluate whether there is sufficient evidence to prove anyone else agreed to commit a criminal offense and took an overt act in furtherance of that offense. The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/953 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/957 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30121 US v Renzi 769 F.3d 731 (9th Cir.) https://www.justsecurity.org/67076/public-document-clearinghouse-ukraine-impeachment-inquiry/#WhistleblowerComplaint A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Taylor Irish performed the editing this week and created the episode’s graphic. Comments, questions, concerns or criticisms? Contact us here: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros Email: poli.n.pros@gmail.com You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify.

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. This is our second series. It highlights current events where the politics of prosecution intersect and is produced by student volunteers and High Point University Criminal Justice professor Scott Ingram. The third episode in this series takes a different look at the just-completed impeachment trial of Donald Trump in the United States Senate. Rather than examine the facts, we look at the prosecutors, the House managers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi selected seven Democrats to prosecute the President. To better understand their political/prosecutorial role, it helps to compare them to the only other modern Presidential impeachment, that of Bill Clinton. In 1998, House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde selected thirteen managers to prosecute Clinton before the Senate. With this comparison we look at selection strategy, function, partisanship and demographics. The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/impeachment/clinton-impeachment-and-its-fallout https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/us/politics/clinton-impeachment-trial.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/what-its-like-to-manage-an-impeachment-trial-in-u-s-senate.html https://famous-trials.com/Clinton https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/04/former-lawmaker-who-helped-conduct-clinton-impeachment-trial-explains-how-it-works/ https://nadler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=394178 https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/01/17/trump-impeachment-what-steps-senate-trial/4495963002/ https://thehill.com/homenews/house/478886-meet-pelosis-7-impeachment-managers https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/18/trump-clinton-impeachment-100691 https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/22/politics/zoe-lofgren-impeachment-manager/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/us/politics/zoe-lofgren-democrats-impeachment.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-an-impeachment-manager-what-do-they-do-how-are-they-picked/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/us/politics/jason-crow.html https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/16/who-is-jason-crow-impeachment-manager-colorado/ https://www.texastribune.org/2020/01/15/congresswoman-sylvia-garcia-named-prosecution-team-impeachment-trial/ A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Taylor Irish performed the editing this week. Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. This is our second series. It highlights current events where the politics of prosecution intersect and is produced by student volunteers and High Point University Criminal Justice professor Scott Ingram. The second episode in this series explores the arguments presented to the United States Supreme Court in the case of Kelly v. United States. The case questions the limits of property as applied to public corruption prosecutions. The case originated with the closure of several lanes of the George Washington Bridge that caused massive traffic delays. The Port Authority closed the lanes in retaliation for the Fort Lee, New Jersey mayor’s refusal to endorse New Jersey governor Chris Christie for re-election. Following her conviction for her role in the closure, Bridget Kelly appealed claiming that the scheme did not appropriate any property. She lost in each court up to the Supreme Court but may have found some sympathetic ears at the Supreme Court as the Court has taken steps in recent years to limit the scope of the fraud statutes, especially in public corruption cases. This episode explores whether that trend will continue. The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-1059/116047/20190917150049217_18-1059%20ts.pdf https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-1059/123477/20191122174249018_18-1059bsUnitedStates.pdf 18 USC 666 18 USC 1343 https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/483/350/ https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/579/15-474/#tab-opinion-3590961 https://www.oyez.org/cases/2009/08-1394 https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/01/argument-analysis-justices-tackle-convictions-arising-from-bridgegate-scandal/ https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/opinions/supreme-court-bridgegate-case-rodgers/index.html https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-files-supreme-court-brief-in-bridgegate-case https://www.oyez.org/cases/2019/18-1059 A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Taylor Irish performed the editing this week. Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. This is our second series. It highlights current events where the politics of prosecution intersect and is produced by student volunteers and High Point University Criminal Justice professor Scott Ingram. The first episode in this series explores President Trump’s tweet where he threatened to attack Iranian cultural sites. He immediately faced criticism as this violates the laws of war. Although the likelihood of the President ordering such an attack and the United States military is very unlikely to execute the unlawful order, the threat raises a question about what enforcement might occur should such an order occur and action follow. What are the politics and law of war crime enforcement? This episode examines these issues in detail, concluding we need to include more war crimes under United States domestic law. The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://time.com/5758250/qasem-soleimani-iran-retaliation/ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1213593975732527112?s=20 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/us/politics/trump-iran-cultural-sites.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Esper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_F._McKenzie_Jr. https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2018/04/the-lieber-code-the-first-modern-codification-of-the-laws-of-war/ https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lieber.asp https://www.congress.gov/110/crpt/erpt26/CRPT-110erpt26.pdf https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2441 https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.32_GC-III-EN.pdf https://www.loc.gov/law/help/us-treaties/bevans/m-ust000001-0631.pdf https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/956 https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/documents/rs-eng.pdf http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/IR http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/armed-conflict-and-heritage/convention-and-protocols/frequently-asked-questions/ A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Taylor Irish performed the editing this week. Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The eighth episode explores the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy—better known as DACA—that the Obama Administration initiated and the Trump Administration has attempted to terminate. The United States Supreme Court recently heard the legal battle and will decide the case sometime before the end of its current session in June. This episode describes DACA’s creation, the debate over immigration and the Trump Administration’s efforts to end the program. Also, this will be the last episode of series one for the time being as the semester-long course associated with this series is complete. Series one may be back next fall. In the meantime, the podcast will continue as we move into other series beginning in January. We hope you will stick with us and tune in during 2020! The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/27/julian-castro-beto-orourke-section-immigration-i llegal-coleman-livingstone-blease/ https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/dream-act-daca-and-other-policies-designed-pr otect-dreamers https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/daca-explained/index.htm https://www.uscis.gov/archive/frequently-asked-questions https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/files/research/opportunity_exclusio n_011312.pdf https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/169/649/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trumps-humanitarian-re sponsible-approach-refugees-protects-welfare-american-citizens/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/12/daca-supreme-court-leans-toward -trump-ending-obama-program/2567009001/ https://search.proquest.com/usnews/docview/2275763035/11A449C1E3A49F8PQ/2?accountid =11411 https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/71c540ce-7953-455b-b9ea-5cdfb5e82d d7/daca-blog-post.pdf https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/02/13/study-daca-increasededucational- attainment A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Emma Horton performed the editing this week. Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The seventh episode features a look at the most recent iteration of state-level criminal prosecution known as community prosecution. The precise contours of community prosecution—perhaps fittingly—have not been fully explored. Each jurisdiction adopting it does so in different ways and to different degrees. The basic idea, however, is that prosecutors interact with the community so that the prosecutor’s office can better address the community’s concerns. This episode introduces the early community prosecution programs and then features an interview with Jim Summey, the director of High Point (NC) Community Against Violence. Through his efforts and partnership with police and prosecutors, High Point has become a model for law enforcement nationwide. He describes the program and identifies the challenge presented by a new generation. It concludes with a discussion about community prosecution’s efficacy. The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/amhist17&div=30&g_sent=1&casa_token=&collection=journals https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/jlegpro32&div=11&g_sent=1&casa_token=&collection=journals https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/wflr40&div=33&g_sent=1&casa_token=&collection=journals https://ndaa.org/programs/community-prosecution/ http://ndaa.org/wp-content/uploads/final_key_principles_updated_jan_2009.pdf https://www.courtinnovation.org/articles/community-prosecution-strategies-three-examples https://www.nap.edu/read/10114/chapter/6#35 https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2000121500 http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/abstract.aspx?ID=207696 A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Kelsey Donmoyer performed the editing this week. Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The sixth episode features an election recap. While this was an “off year” for national races, there were plenty of local races, particularly for prosecutors. This episode looks at four of them: San Francisco, CA, Lancaster County, PA, Delaware County, PA, and Queens, NY. All of these races share a common feature in that the incumbent decided not to run again. Usually this situation is the only time prosecutor election are contested. This episode examines the candidates and the issues and what these elections might mean for the future of the prosecutorial function. The sources used for reference in this episode are: • https://theappeal.org/da-elections-take-shape-in-pennsylvania-and-boston-da-announces-new-reforms/ • https://www.healthinjustice.org/drug-induced-homicide • https://www.billthompsonlaw.com/blog/2019/july/pennsylvania-files-the-most-drug-induced-homicid/ • http://www.drugpolicy.org/sites/default/files/dpa_drug_induced_homicide_report_0.pdf • https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/stage-is-set-for-pennsylvanias-da-elections-a-preview/ • https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/drug-induced-homicide-da-elections-pennsylvania-new-york/ • https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&ttl=18&div=0&chpt=25&sctn=6&subsctn=0 • https://co.lancaster.pa.us/DocumentCenter/View/10788/Official-Candidate-Listing-for-the-November-5-2019-Municipal-Election • https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/four-takeaways-from-tuesday-s-district-attorney-candidate-debate/article_a491352e-efc7-11e9-8eec-438d56f56d3a.html • https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/03/central-pa-prosecutors-lead-state-in-charging-heroin-dealers-with-killing-their-customers.html • http://www.pennstatelawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/813-837-Mauck-Formatted.pdf • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-da-race-chesa-boudin-wins-tightly-contested-election-over-suzy-loftus-2019-11-09/ • https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/The-Scanner-San-Francisco-ranks-No-1-in-13267113.php • https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safecrime-data-and-mapsself-service-crime-data/crime-dashboard • https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rate-and-property-crime-rate • https://www.chesaboudin.com/about • https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/us/chesa-boudin-san-francisco-da.html • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground • https://votesuzyloftus.com/priorities/get-tough-on-corporations-who-are-harming-our-city/ • https://www.jackfordelcoda.com/platform • https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/Election-Day-Philadelphia-Mayor-Pennsylvania-New-Jersey-Delaware-County-District-Attorney-564520551.html • https://www.delcotimes.com/news/dem-stollsteimer-upends-incumbent-gop-d-a-copeland/article_ce37c532-004d-11ea-bcf7-f38b58f19cc3.html • https://katz4da.com/platform-sentencing-reform • https://patch.com/new-york/queens/queens-borough-president-melinda-katz-claims-victory-da-race https://patch.com/new-york/foresthills/judge-starts-review-disputed-ballots-queens-da-primary A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Collin Frankhouser performed the editing this week. Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The fifth episode explores the issue of prosecutorial discretion. Recently, the college admissions scandal that has ensnared two actresses and many others has brought this prosecutor’s charging power to the public’s attention. As defendants delay or refuse to plead guilty, prosecutors continue adding charges and, thereby, the pressure to plead guilty. This episode describes the charging decision process and how it can be used, for better or worse. The episode features an interview with Stephen Cole, an Assistant District Attorney in the Guilford County (NC) District Attorney’s Office. The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/us/lori-loughlin-not-guilty.html https://www.npr.org/2019/10/22/772443604/new-charges-against-lori-loughlin-and-10-other-parents-in-admissions-case##targetText=The%20wealthy%20business%20people%20and,for%20the%20university's%20crew%20team. https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a29673577/lori-loughlin-almost-pled-guilty-report/ https://www.amacdonaldlaw.com/blog/2017/november/understand-prosecutorial-overcharging-tactics/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/05/cyrus-vance-jr-americas-prosecutor-problem-215786 This week’s music provided by: A New Year by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported- CC By 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/_a-new-year Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/FRLsadzQ2qc A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Aurora Jaques performed the editing this week. Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The fourth episode is the second of two that examine sexual assault prosecutions. This episode looks at the issue from a societal perspective. How society views sexual assault has changed in recent years, not to mention how it has changed over decades. The hosts discuss a variety of cases, including a United States Supreme Court case from the 1970s about revealing the victim’s identity and the recent prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein. We also have our first interview! The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1974/73-938 https://www.oyez.org/cases/2007/07-343 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/blackboard.learn.xythos.prod/5a6a00cf15ab4/2464940?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27Scheingold%2520-%2520Policy%2520Politics%2520and%2520Crim%2520Courts.pdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20191105T184317Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=21600&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIL7WQYDOOHAZJGWQ%2F20191105%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=1d20351a7a9e0cd9ddc6d922b8d46842bf9879f443f58363293d5e07a104d526 https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/us/me-too-tarana-burke-origin-trnd/index.html https://www.vox.com/2018/12/20/18138377/congress-sexual-harassment-bill https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/3749 https://ualr.edu/socialchange/2018/04/15/reflection-history-sexual-assault-laws-united-states/ http://historyofrapeculture.weebly.com/history-of-rape-culture.html https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9bkje5/for-context-heres-how-various-societies-punished-rapists https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a28352055/jeffrey-epstein-criminal-case-facts/ https://www.bustle.com/articles/182145-5-sentences-like-brock-turners-that-drive-home-how-poorly-our-system-handles-sex-assault A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Emma Horton performed the editing this week. Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media that contribute to both the academic discussion of these issues as well as inform the general public about the important but rarely observed role prosecutors play in our criminal justice system. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The third episode is the first of two that examine sexual assault prosecutions. This episode looks at the issue from the standpoint of prosecutors refusing to prosecute. It examines the causes of this phenomenon and then considers possible reforms to encourage or require prosecutors to pursue sexual assault cases more vigorously. The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/199720.pdf https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1992-03761-001 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/23/us/metoo-replacements.html https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violence https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/252689.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/opinions/arlington-texas/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/us/border-patrol-sexual-assault.html https://www.scribd.com/document/429381211/19-05-25-0480#fullscreen&from_embed A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Kelsey Donmoyer performed the editing this week. Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The second episode explores the ongoing investigation into President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zalensky. In that phone call, the President discussed his desire for Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden, former Vice-President and current Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, over Hunter’s involvement with a Ukrainian energy company. The podcast examines the potential campaign finance criminal violation and discusses whether President Trump’s conduct rises to the level of a criminal violation. It concludes by examining other potential statutory violations the phone call implicates. The sources used for reference in this episode are: ● https://qz.com/1719034/trump-and-ukraine-the-complete-impeachment-timeline/ ● https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6430404-Whistleblowercomplaint.html ● https://www.cbsnews.com/news/read-the-transcript-summary-president-trump-call-with-ukrainian-president-volodomyr-zelensky/ ● https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/politics/pompeo-trump-ukraine-phone-call/index.html ● https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/documents/20190930%20-%20Giuliani%20HPSCI%20Subpoena%20Schedule%20Only.pdf ● https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/25/us/politics/trump-ukraine-transcript.html ● https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/24/full-trump-ukraine-timeline-now/ ● https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-justice-department-s-legal-opinion-in-the-trump-ukraine-whistleblower-case/dabea65d-38e9-4e4c-a860-4fc050c69713/ ● https://www.npr.org/2019/09/23/763521158/rudy-giulianis-role-in-trump-ukraine-call ● https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/03/politics/gop-senators-echoed-biden-on-ukraine-reforms-kfile/index.html ● https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-gas-company-burisma-holdings-joe-bidens-son-hunter-explained-2019-9 ● https://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/1/essays/18/punishment-for-impeachment ● https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/25/11.448 ● https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30121 ● https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-gas-tycoon-and-the-vice-presidents-son-the-story-of-hunter-bidens-foray-in-ukraine/2019/09/28/1aadff70-dfd9-11e9-8fd3-d943b4ed57e0_story.html ● https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2019/0930/Joe-and-Hunter-Biden-Three-questions-about-Ukraine-corruption ● https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/hunter-biden-comprehensive-timeline/ ● https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/462660-five-things-to-know-about-the-whistleblower-complaint A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Collin Frankhouser performed the editing this week. Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify. If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at poli.n.pros@gmail.com

Welcome to the first-ever Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events. The first episode explores an ongoing matter between the President of the United States, Donald Trump, his accounting firm, Mazurs, and the Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance. The President brought the case in federal district court to obtain an injunction against Mazurs to prevent them from responding to the District Attorney’s Grand Jury subpoena seeking the President’s tax records. The District Attorney obtained the subpoena for the tax records as part of an ongoing investigation into then-Presidential-candidate Donald Trump’s alleged payments to two women accusing him of sexual assault. The episode examines the legal and constitutional issues this case presents. The sources used for reference in this episode are: https://www.history.com/topics/1970s/watergate https://www.history.com/topics/1980s/iran-contra-affair https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-sues-manhattan-prosecutor-to-block-subpoenas-for-tax-returns-his-latest-effort-to-halt-investigations-into-his-finances/2019/09/19/e9d83bec-daea-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/19/politics/tax-records-trump-lawsuit/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/politics/sdny-trump-tax-lawsuit/index.html A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment. Aurora Jaques performed the editing this week. Please follow us on: Twitter: @Poli_Pros Instagram: Poli.n.Pros Email comments, questions, concerns or criticisms to poli.n.pros@gmail.com