Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

Bennett Gershman, a law professor at Pace University in New York, said he had seen that kind of workload only on misdemeanor or lesser felony cases, which take far less time to clear. “It’s insane,” he said. “How can you handle a criminal justice system with integrity when you have one lawyer with so many cases that it’s almost impossible to navigate and manage in a fair, responsible, professional way?”

The Robert S. Tucker Prize for Prosecutorial Excellence is awarded annually to an individual or a group of individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of criminal prosecution and who demonstrate excellence in prosecutorial practice. Honorees are selected each year by a jury comprised of former prosecutors and faculty members from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.

...said Nicholas Robinson, an environmental law professor at Pace University who is not involved in the case. At the same time, Robinson said,...

"They're trying to pretend nothing happened," said Nicholas Robinson, an environmental law professor at Pace University who is not involved in the case. At the same time, Robinson said, the state's response was not unexpected. "They feel they're entitled to wait until the highest court in New York orders them to behave otherwise. Now, that's kind of bad in the sense that they should want to support the bill of rights. But you can also understand that they want to be protected by a court order that tells them to do it."