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Professor Bennett Gershman provides expert insight to NPR about how Ohio prosecutors broke rules to win convictions and got away with it.

Former prosecutor Bennett Gershman, who now teaches at Pace University's School of Law in New York, called the pattern of prosecutors who repeatedly act improperly in cases in Ohio a "microcosm" of the criminal justice system in states across the country.

Seidenberg Dean Jonathan Hill along with Professor’s Christelle Scharff and Juan Shan are featured in amNY about Pace University being at the forefront of the AI revolution.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law team for the National Trial League Competition broke a record this year as they were the only school to remain undefeated in the National Trial League’s regular season, with a solid finish of seven wins and zero losses.

News 12 featured Pace University’s new Cyber-Range at the Pleasantville campus. The new technology is designed to simulate real-world cyber threats.

"We try and teach them how to use the defensive tools to identify when an attack is going on," said clinical professor Joe Acampora, Seidenberg School of CSIS at Pace University.

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“A directed verdict motion says this: There’s not enough evidence here for the case to go to a jury," Pace University law professor Randolph M. McLaughlin, laughing. "The only wrinkle here is, there's no jury! They’re asking the judge to direct a verdict against himself." “I’ve never heard of a lawyer asking on multiple occasions for a directed verdict – I’ve never heard of it,” McLaughlin added. “I understand you have to make motions, but some of what they’re doing borders on frivolousness. I don’t think they have any shame at all.”

The claim that holding a trial during an election year constitutes “election interference” is “farfetched” and “a ploy to prevent” Trump from facing accusations that any other citizen would have to face, Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon. “If accepted, this claim would produce dangerous consequences for the justice system and the rule of law,” Gershman said. “Does it mean that a corrupt congressman running for re-election cannot be indicted or tried? That removing Trump from the ballot because he led an insurrection, as the Constitution mandates, constitutes election interference? That the current civil trial in New York must be stopped, that at least five upcoming trials must be postponed, and that Trump should get a free pass without legal jeopardy until he hopes he’ll get elected and then have a chance to pardon himself?”

“The main legal challenge to gag orders in general is that they infringe on the First Amendment right to free speech,” Bennett Gershman, a law professor at Pace University, told Salon. “Courts have to balance the danger to the personal safety of the persons being targeted by Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric as well as the damage to the integrity of judicial proceedings with the right to speak.”