Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
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The average professional in this country wakes up in the
morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner and
then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed
several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer
lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws,
which have not only exploded in number, but, along with
countless regulatory provisions, have also become impossibly
broad and vague.
In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A.
Silverglate reveals how the federal criminal justice system
has become dangerously disconnected from common law
traditions of due process and fair notice of the law’s expectations, enabling prosecutors
to pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous
behavior. The dangers spelled out do not apply solely to “white collar
criminals,” state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession
is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing
less than the continued functioning and integrity of our constitutional democracy
hang in the balance.
Softcover, 200 pages