Document Type
Editorial
Publication Date
7-3-2015
Abstract
This op-ed piece argues that criminal law recodification is badly needed in the states and the federal system, but that prosecutors stand out as the group who appear to regularly oppose it.
Keywords
Criminal codes, recodification, layering of crimes, duplicate punishments, exaggerated offense grades, injustice, prosecutors
Publication Title
Los Angeles Times
Repository Citation
Robinson, Paul H., "Lost in a Legal Thicket" (2015). All Faculty Scholarship. 1565.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/1565
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Publication Citation
Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2015, at A21.