Posted on 03/26/2003 9:24:46 AM PST by Liz
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:12:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Here we go again. Is this like "protective function privilege" or "ditzy intern privilege" or "executive hummer privilege?"
The wrath of The Hitlery knows no bounds. NY Judges like breathing too much.
About what I expected after reading the article.
WTF?! There's no such thing. My bet is Clintoon appointed this shyster after first insuring he had leverage over him.
The Presidential Fraud Privilege ... leave it to Clinton to break such ground.
Howdja' do it?
"gerald lynch" clinton appointed
When you put double quotes around a set of words, it will only return exactly that phrase - so I eliminated all the hits on people with a last name of Lynch but not a first name of Gerald.
GERARD E. LYNCH
B.A., Columbia, 1972;
J.D., 1975.
Appointed U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New York by President Clinton in 2000.
Joined Columbia faculty in 1977, following clerkships with Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 197576, and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., of the U.S. Supreme Court, 197677.
Served as assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York, 198083, prosecuting white-collar criminal cases and serving as chief appellate attorney.
Returned to that office to serve as chief of the criminal division, 199092.
Appointed counsel to city, state, and federal commissions and special prosecutors investigating public corruption, including the Iran/Contra investigation, where he briefed and argued the prosecution position in the appeal of Oliver North.
Has briefed and argued cases in federal appellate courts, including the Supreme Court, as a cooperating attorney with the American and New York Civil Liberties Unions, and has extensive experience as a defense attorney in state and federal cases.
Member of numerous bar associations and advisory committees.
Author of leading articles on the federal racketeering laws; has also published and lectured on other aspects of criminal law, constitutional theory, and legal ethics.
Recipient of the student-voted Willis Reese Award for Excellence in Teaching (1994) and the University-wide Presidents Award for Outstanding Teaching (1997).
Principal teaching and research areas include criminal law and procedure, sentencing, and professional responsibility.
PUBLICATIONS:
Our Administrative System of Criminal Justice, 66 Fordham Law Review 2117 (1998)
Toward a Model Penal Code, Second (Federal?): The Challenge of the Special Part, 2 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 295 (1998)
Plea Bargaining: El Sistema No Contradictorio de Justicia Penal en Estados Unidos, 1998/A Nueva Doctrina Penal 293 (Buenos Aires 1998)
The Problem Isn?t in the Starrs but in a Misguided Law, The Washington Post, Feb. 22, 1998, at C3.
The Role of Criminal Law in Policing Corporate Misconduct, 60 Law & Contemporary Problems 23 (1997)
William J. Brennan, Jr., American, 97 Columbia Law Review 1603 (1997)
Special Prosecutors: What's the Point? The Washington Post, May 28, 1995, at C7 (with Philip K. Howard)
The Sentencing Guidelines as a (Not-So-Model) Penal Code, 7 Federal Sentencing Reporter 112 (1994), reprinted in FSR Highlights from a Decade of Guideline Sentencing, 10 Federal Sentencing Reporter 25 (1997)
The Allocation of Discretion Under the Guidelines (Conference Proceedings), 101 Yale Law Journal 2066 (1992)
How Useful is Civil RICO in the Enforcement of Criminal Law? 35 Villanova Law Review 929 (1990)
A Conceptual, Practical and Political Guide to RICO Reform, 43 Vanderbilt Law Review 769 (1990)
A Reply to Professor Goldsmith, 88 Columbia Law Review 802 (1988)
Insult to Injury, The New Republic 198(14):17 (April 4, 1988)
RICO: The Crime of Being a Criminal, Parts I & II, 87 Columbia Law Review 661 (1987); Parts III & IV, 87 Columbia Law Review 920 (1987), excerpted in Leonard Orland (ed.), Corporate and White Collar Crime: An Anthology (1995), and in numerous casebooks
The Lawyer as Informer, 1986 Duke Law Journal 491 (1986)
Constitutional Law as Moral Philosophy, 84 Columbia Law Review 537 (1984)
Review of Ely, Democracy and Distrust, 80 Columbia Law Review 857 (1980), reprinted in Michael J. Glennon (ed.), A Constitutional Law Anthology (1992)
Review of Berger, Government by Judiciary, 63 Cornell Law Review 1091 (1978)
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