Anna Roberts
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Professor at Brooklyn Law School. Teaching and writing about Evidence, Criminal Procedure, and Criminal Law. https://www.brooklaw.edu/contact-us/roberts-anna/
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Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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You can comment on this proposed change; so can your students; and so can those who have been directly impacted by the rule. If you’re looking for ideas on teaching impeachment or more information on the proposal, check out my chapter in the forthcoming book “Critical Evidence.” tinyurl.com/3x8kyen4
Teaching Impeachment
<p>Recent years have brought exciting new scholarship exposing ways in which conventional law teaching may sanitize and strengthen the carceral state and sugges
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August 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You can comment on this proposed change; so can your students; and so can those who have been directly impacted by the rule. If you’re looking for ideas on teaching impeachment or more information on the proposal, check out my chapter in the forthcoming book “Critical Evidence.” tinyurl.com/3x8kyen4
The proposed Advisory Committee Note is interesting too—what’s left after the DOJ sought cuts in return for their signing on. It indicates that the sanitizing of felony convictions—a kind of judicial “compromise”—is “problematic," since jurors need the name to assess the purported probative value.
August 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The proposed Advisory Committee Note is interesting too—what’s left after the DOJ sought cuts in return for their signing on. It indicates that the sanitizing of felony convictions—a kind of judicial “compromise”—is “problematic," since jurors need the name to assess the purported probative value.
The Advisory Committee rejected earlier arguments in favor of abrogating FRE 609 and in favor of deleting FRE 609(a)(1). And yet the sole member of the Committee to vote against moving this more modest change to public comment said he feared that this was part of a two-step process to abrogate 609.
August 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Advisory Committee rejected earlier arguments in favor of abrogating FRE 609 and in favor of deleting FRE 609(a)(1). And yet the sole member of the Committee to vote against moving this more modest change to public comment said he feared that this was part of a two-step process to abrogate 609.