Law and Legitimacy

In 1950, Allan Turing wrote about the imitation game. Place a computer behind a screen and have a human ask it questions by way of a keyboard. If the computer can answer the questions in a manner that makes it impossible for the human to tell whether the author was a human or a computer, the machine "passes" the test, and would be said to be possessed of general human intelligence. It was a narrow vision of intelligence and a purely instrumental view of what it meant to be human. 

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Andrew Wyatt is the spokesman for Bill Cosby, standing by him in the run up to his trial and his conviction in Pennsylvania, and greeting him at the prison gates when he was released from prison after the State Supreme Court threw out the conviction. 

Who is Andrew Wyatt? And what does a spokesman do? Few Americans have enjoyed the celebrity status that Bill Cosby enjoyed. And none have fallen so far and so quickly from grace.  

Will Cosby engage in a comeback tour?  If

Donald Trump’s suits against Facebook and Twitter are, unfortunately, about as likely to succeed as were his challenges to the 2020 election. In the election cases, his claims appeared to be frivolous. 

The social media complaints, however, are far from frivolous, at least in intent. But the legal theories they assert are ridiculous.

"Can we long exist as a society if we lose our tradition in the roots of faith?"

My guest on this episode of Law and Legitimacy is Ron Coleman. Ron Coleman is a partner at The Dhillon Law Group and has a robust practice including business law, commercial litigation, trademarks, intellectual property, antitrust, appellate issues and the occasional appearance in front of SCOTUS, anchored out of New York City. 

Ron is als

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed the conviction of Bill Cosby for the rape of Andrea Constand in a stinging rebuke of Commonwealth prosecutors. The Court ruled that prosecutors cannot retry Cosby, now 83. By the time you read this, he should be a free man.

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The State of New York recently suspended Rudy Giuliani’s law license on an interim basis in one of the most shocking decisions I’ve read in quite some time.

Why? He made false statements to the court, to the public and to t

“Here is your servant; lord, have mercy on me.”

This week, Connecticut's Chief State's Attorney, Richard Colangelo, Jr., graciously joined Law and Legitimacy for an hour-long interview and rare respite from the war stories that typify the prosecutor-defense attorney paradigm.  

Indeed, Norm and Richard have long been trial attorney adversaries. Legend has it that Norm even pursued Richard on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct all the way up to the 2nd Circuit a few moons ago. 

This episode, however, breathes life into the

This was an odd week on the frontiers of the emerging racial divisions in the United States. 

From the federal appellate courts, good news — the 6th Circuit struct down a federal program giving preferential access to federal coronavirus relief funds on the basis of race and gender. 

From Yale University, troubling news — it took the university months to finally distance itself from the remarks of a visiting psychiatrist who told fellow professionals she fantasizes about happil