Scott Greenfield
Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.
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When a jury deadlocks, double jeopardy should bar a retrial, because the prosecution has already had its one fair chance to convict.
Once the prosecution has had, and has lost, the opportunity to make its case, double jeopardy should attach and prevent a retrial.
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Killing suspected drug smugglers at sea without trial is murder, because smuggling is not a capital offence.
Even if it turned out that they were drug smugglers, as claimed, and even if it turned out that they were bringing drugs to the United States, a dubious proposition, the penalty for smuggling drugs is not summary execution.
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When a jury deadlocks, double jeopardy should bar a retrial, because the prosecution has already had its one fair chance to convict.
Once the prosecution has had, and has lost, the opportunity to make its case, double jeopardy should attach and prevent a retrial.
Retrial Isn’t Double Jeopardy (But It Should Be) Said 5 Sept 2026
The right to a fair trial belongs to the defendant alone; there is no public right to be weighed against it.
There is a Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial, but that right belongs to the defendant, not the public.
Retrial Isn’t Double Jeopardy (But It Should Be) Said 5 Sept 2026
A defendant's only job at trial is to prevent a unanimous conviction, never to win a unanimous acquittal.
The defendant has no duty to reach a unanimous verdict of acquittal, but only to prevent a unanimous verdict of conviction.
Retrial Isn’t Double Jeopardy (But It Should Be) Said 5 Sept 2026
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Killing suspected drug smugglers at sea without trial is murder, because smuggling is not a capital offence.
Even if it turned out that they were drug smugglers, as claimed, and even if it turned out that they were bringing drugs to the United States, a dubious proposition, the penalty for smuggling drugs is not summary execution.
Lawyers In The Cheap Seats Said 27 Aug 2026
A military that disconnects its orders from the law and from legal advice has no limit on what it will do when commanded.
But once the military disconnects its orders from the law, the Constitution and the counsel of “lawyers in the cheap seats,” there is no limit to what it will do if commanded.
Lawyers In The Cheap Seats Said 27 Aug 2026
Litigation is the wrong instrument for a public health problem that comes from what people choose to buy.
Yes, our supersize culture is a health disaster, but the cure isn’t lawsuits against companies that sell us what we want for a price we’re all too happy to pay.
Are Courts The Answer To “Ultraprocessed” Food? Said 27 Jul 2026
Everything is not racism, but a court that refuses to print the statements at issue has not shown that these ones are not.
Everything isn’t racist, but if this isn’t, then Alito failed miserably to make the case.
SCOTUS Whitewashes Otherwise Racist Decision Said 29 Jun 2026
Ending a temporary immigration status overnight, after people have built lives in reliance on it, does real harm to them and to their communities.
To shout “temporary” and pull the plug essentially overnight after immigrants have relied on the government’s representations that they should put their efforts and future into establishing a life in the United States wreaks unfair havoc on the lives of immigrants as well as the welfare of their communities.
SCOTUS Whitewashes Otherwise Racist Decision Said 29 Jun 2026
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Blog Simple Justice His blog on criminal law and the courts. Has a feed.
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- What The Polls Tell Us 2 Nov 2026 Political polling is nothing new. I got a job doing political polling back in the 1970s, cold calling random people on a list to ask about their affiliation and who they would be voting for. Most people hung up on me. S…
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- The El-Sayed Factor 1 Nov 2026 Tight though that outcome of the Michigan primary was between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, there was a winner, and that winner was Abdul El-Sayed. His candidacy reveals a fracture within the Democratic Party that c…
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- Free Speech And The Workplace Captive Audience 30 Oct 2026 The Ninth Circuit was faced with a very tough conflict. California’s law, SB 399, prohibited employers from forcing their employees to listen to religious or political speech upon pain of adverse job consequences. [a]n…
- Peltola’s Pale Ploy 29 Oct 2026 The New York Times reports that Mary Peltola, the Democratic candidate for Senator from Alaska, pulled a dirty trick. Her campaign sought out a person with the same name as the incumbent Republican Senator, convinced hi…
- All Quasi, No Judicial 28 Oct 2026 They’re not judges. The judicial branch of government exists under Article III of the Constitution. Its judges are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, after which they have tenure for life upon good…
- Tuesday Talk*: Who Will Protect The Voters? 27 Oct 2026 There will almost certainly be accusations, if not legal battles, by Trump against election officials in various states and cities claiming that they violated the law by not denying putative citizens with names ending i…
- But For Video: The AI Deepfake Conundrum 26 Oct 2026 The use of artificial intelligence to write motions and briefs, not to mention the occasional opinion, containing hallucinated caselaw and quotations is already a well-known problem. Not only does it reflect the likelih…
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- In an act of contemptible desperation, Vance tries to distance himself from all that went horribly wrong, hoping no one will notice or remember how he sacrificed his soul on the altar of Trump. 4 Nov 2026
- The Republican Party will never be conservative again unless it rids itself of delusional Trump sycophants. 4 Nov 2026
- Kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you'll wait for me Hold me like you'll never let me go 'Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again Oh babe, I hate to go 4 Nov 2026
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- "I think this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture." 4 Nov 2026
- What Comes Next? 4 Nov 2026 blog.simplejustice.us
- If this position doesn't capture independent voters, nothing will. 3 Nov 2026
- Nobody is confused. Blanche is just full of shit. Again. 3 Nov 2026
- Maybe they lied to him and he just doesn't know any better? 3 Nov 2026
- In a stunning move, the Supreme Court denied an administrative stay to the Trump petition without even a response from California. Absolutely crushing blow to Trump's effort to wreak havoc with the midterms in California. 3 Nov 2026
- Now that Trump is done with his midterm rallies, is it not overwhelmingly obvious why he chose the YMCA as his song? 3 Nov 2026 youtube.com
- Tuesday Talk*: Election Day, Finally 3 Nov 2026 blog.simplejustice.us
- Federal judges, take note. 2 Nov 2026
- An ICE agent lied? This is my shocked face. 2 Nov 2026
- A lot of people don't know "incumbent" has a "b" in it. Like "dumb." 2 Nov 2026
- Is there something about a president and vice president publicly cursing that makes people respect them? 2 Nov 2026
- Some will see this as a clear sign of dementia. They are wrong. This is a clear sign he thinks his supporters are blithering idiots and will believe any lie, no matter how absurd. 2 Nov 2026
- Going to rallies in a desperate attempt to stave off the abject humiliation of defeat is not working for us. Ending the failed war in Iran. Disclosing all the Epstein files. Ending the inane tariffs that make food unaffordable. Supporting Ukraine rather than Putin. 2 Nov 2026
- It's one thing for Trump to pretend he's Jesus, but Elvis? Is nothing sacred? 2 Nov 2026
- Then Trump was impeached, but Mitch McConnell lacked the fortitude to vote his conscience, leaving it to criminal prosecution to do the dirty work, and the Supreme Court instead manufactured immunity despite there being no basis in the Constitution. 2 Nov 2026
- What The Polls Tell Us 2 Nov 2026 blog.simplejustice.us
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