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In this bonus from Stay Tuned, Professor Eddie Glaude ruminates on patriotism and reacts to Princeton’s recent decision to rename the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. 

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REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:

“President Eisgruber’s message to community on removal of Woodrow Wilson name from public policy school and Wilson College,” Princeton University, 6/27/20

In this bonus material from a special episode of Stay Tuned, “Scenes from the Mueller Probe,” Anne Milgram talks to Andrew Weissmann, former lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, about his time reforming FBI’s forensics lab, that time he prosecuted Vincent Gigante, the boss of the Genovese crime family, and a death penalty case he defended early in his career as a young lawyer. 

In the full episode, Weissmann reflects on the probe, shares his view on the Roger Stone commutation, and previews his forthcoming book, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation. 

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REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

• Spenser S. Hsu, “Convicted defendants left uninformed of forensic flaws found by Justice Dept.,” Washington Post, 4/16/2012
• Spenser S. Hsu, “U.S. reviewing 27 death penalty convictions for FBI forensic testimony errors,” Washington Post, 7/17/2013
• “FBI Testimony on Microscopic Hair Analysis Contained Errors in at Least 90 Percent of Cases in Ongoing Review,” FBI.gov, 4/20/2015
• “Innocence Project Praises DOJ for Undertaking Unprecedented Review of FBI Forensic Testimony,” Innocence Project, 2/24/2016
• Robert Mueller, Testimony on Forensics before the Senate Judiciary Committee, CSPAN, 5/16/2012
• Eddie William Finney, Petitioner, v. Walter D. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Andclassification Center, Respondent, 709 F.2d 643 (11th Cir. 1983), Justia
• “First set to die, Ga man gets life in killings,” Access DWUN, 9/21/2013
• Joseph P. Fried, “In Closing Arguments, U.S. Says Tapes Prove Gigante Is Mob Kingpin,” New York Times, 7/23/1997
• Blane Harden, “Gigante Guilty of Racketeering, Conspiracy,” Washington Post, 7/26/1997
• Selwyn Robb, “Vincent Gigante, Mafia Leader Who Feigned Insanity, Dies at 77,” New York Times, 12/19/2005

In this episode of CAFE Insider, “Portland, Vance, and Voting Rights,” Preet and Anne break down the controversy surrounding the use of federal officers to arrest and detain protesters in Portland, the most recent legal maneuvering in the Manhattan District Attorney’s pursuit of President Trump’s tax returns, and the Supreme Court’s decision to leave in place (for now) a lower court order which disenfranchises hundreds of thousands of people in Florida with felony convictions. 

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