Welcome to the World of ‘Novel Legal Theories’

When Rudy Giuliani was pursuing his infamous Wall Street prosecutions in the 1980s, his aides admitted that they were indicting people on “novel legal theories” that had not been used before. A Giuliani lieutenant bragged to a group of law students that prosecutors in his office: were guilty of criminalizing technical offenses…Many of the prosecution theories we used … Continue reading Welcome to the World of ‘Novel Legal Theories’