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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Blog Simple Justice His blog on criminal law and the courts. Has a feed.
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- The (Un)Constitutionality Isn’t The Real Problem 19 Sept 2026 Out of the blue, Trump twitted that he’s banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House, with “Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow.” Calling critical and unflattering media coverage “fake” has long been a ubiq…
- Seaton: Friday Night Dance Fever 18 Sept 2026 My kids have a school dance tonight. It’s my son’s first of middle school and one of the last my daughter will see at this particular grade level. And of course, because I’m a sucker for this sort of thing, I’m chaperon…
- 2d Circuit Allows Cellphone Searches At Border For Kicks 18 Sept 2026 The Supreme Court recognized that cellphones were different in Riley v. California. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals, with JFK airport, among others, within its jurisdiction, hadn’t yet joined the fray as district ju…
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- ICE Violated David Streever’s First Amendment Rights 17 Sept 2026 Rochester, New York resident David Streever was angry following the ICE killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and let Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons know. You are a monstrous human being and will go down in history as…
- Will The Kennedy Center Be There Tomorrow? 16 Sept 2026 Three things happened on the same day. Judge Christopher Cooper rejected the attempt by the Kennedy Center board to circumvent his earlier order by putting Trump’s name on the building as “appropriate recognition” of hi…
- Tuesday Talk*: AI, AI, AI, The Hoax 15 Sept 2026 The CEOs of the major Artificial Intelligence companies say it’s a potential existential threat to humanity. The president’s statement followed a weekend essay from Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, callin…
- Pardons Remove Consequences, Not Reality 14 Sept 2026 At Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene picked up on a Connecticut decision addressing an issue that has grown increasingly prominent, as well as lucrative, under the current administration: Pardons. Three things are indisputable…
- Leave Jurors Out Of It 13 Sept 2026 First, the assumption was that the Clancy deadlock was between the men and women on the jury, because it had to be women who would side with the defendant who killed her three children. It was wrong. Then, the assumptio…
- We Found The Vandal 12 Sept 2026 It will come as little surprise that the $14,700,000 “repair” of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the product of two failures. The first was the typical Trump rush to get this “signature” fix completed before th…
- Seaton: And Now, Sports 11 Sept 2026 Football season is here again, friends! The stadiums are packed with cheering fans, parking lots are full of tailgaters, and somehow I’ve once again decided the actions of a bunch of young men aged 18-23 will decide my…
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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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