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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
Written by Harvey A. Silverglate and Alan M. Dershowitz
Narrated by Chris Sorensen
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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 exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day 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 integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Perfect read this really happens i experienced this myself administrative courts is like massive money extortion machine, criminal courts are the same. Courts work like factory assembly line hearing tens of cases a day and putting people behind bars is their business model. They don't care about justice or human lifes, they care about their stats and quotas. System is flawed and corrupt.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book's a little over the top. Silverglate is writing about cases where he was the defense attorney, and his presentation is thus biased.
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