Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. This is our second series. It highlights current events where the politics of prosecution intersect and is produced by student volunteers and High Point University Criminal Justice professor Scott Ingram.

The first episode in this series explores President Trump’s tweet where he threatened to attack Iranian cultural sites. He immediately faced criticism as this violates the laws of war. Although the likelihood of the President ordering such an attack and the United States military is very unlikely to execute the unlawful order, the threat raises a question about what enforcement might occur should such an order occur and action follow. What are the politics and law of war crime enforcement? This episode examines these issues in detail, concluding we need to include more war crimes under United States domestic law.

The sources used for reference in this episode are:

https://time.com/5758250/qasem-soleimani-iran-retaliation/

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1213593975732527112?s=20

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/us/politics/trump-iran-cultural-sites.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Esper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_F._McKenzie_Jr.

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2018/04/the-lieber-code-the-first-modern-codification-of-the-laws-of-war/

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lieber.asp

https://www.congress.gov/110/crpt/erpt26/CRPT-110erpt26.pdf

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2441

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.32_GC-III-EN.pdf

https://www.loc.gov/law/help/us-treaties/bevans/m-ust000001-0631.pdf

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/956

https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/documents/rs-eng.pdf

http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/IR

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/armed-conflict-and-heritage/convention-and-protocols/frequently-asked-questions/

A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment.

Taylor Irish performed the editing this week.

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Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events.

The eighth episode explores the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy—better known as DACA—that the Obama Administration initiated and the Trump Administration has attempted to terminate. The United States Supreme Court recently heard the legal battle and will decide the case sometime before the end of its current session in June. This episode describes DACA’s creation, the debate over immigration and the Trump Administration’s efforts to end the program.

Also, this will be the last episode of series one for the time being as the semester-long course associated with this series is complete. Series one may be back next fall. In the meantime, the podcast will continue as we move into other series beginning in January. We hope you will stick with us and tune in during 2020!

The sources used for reference in this episode are:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/27/julian-castro-beto-orourke-section-immigration-i

llegal-coleman-livingstone-blease/

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/dream-act-daca-and-other-policies-designed-pr

otect-dreamers

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/daca-explained/index.htm

https://www.uscis.gov/archive/frequently-asked-questions

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/files/research/opportunity_exclusio

n_011312.pdf

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/169/649/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trumps-humanitarian-re

sponsible-approach-refugees-protects-welfare-american-citizens/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/12/daca-supreme-court-leans-toward

-trump-ending-obama-program/2567009001/

https://search.proquest.com/usnews/docview/2275763035/11A449C1E3A49F8PQ/2?accountid

=11411

https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/71c540ce-7953-455b-b9ea-5cdfb5e82d

d7/daca-blog-post.pdf

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/02/13/study-daca-increasededucational-

attainment

A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment.

Emma Horton performed the editing this week.

Please follow us on:

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Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events.

The seventh episode features a look at the most recent iteration of state-level criminal prosecution known as community prosecution. The precise contours of community prosecution—perhaps fittingly—have not been fully explored. Each jurisdiction adopting it does so in different ways and to different degrees. The basic idea, however, is that prosecutors interact with the community so that the prosecutor’s office can better address the community’s concerns. This episode introduces the early community prosecution programs and then features an interview with Jim Summey, the director of High Point (NC) Community Against Violence. Through his efforts and partnership with police and prosecutors, High Point has become a model for law enforcement nationwide. He describes the program and identifies the challenge presented by a new generation. It concludes with a discussion about community prosecution’s efficacy.

The sources used for reference in this episode are:

https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/amhist17&div=30&g_sent=1&casa_token=&collection=journals

https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/jlegpro32&div=11&g_sent=1&casa_token=&collection=journals

https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/wflr40&div=33&g_sent=1&casa_token=&collection=journals

https://ndaa.org/programs/community-prosecution/

http://ndaa.org/wp-content/uploads/final_key_principles_updated_jan_2009.pdf

https://www.courtinnovation.org/articles/community-prosecution-strategies-three-examples

https://www.nap.edu/read/10114/chapter/6#35

https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2000121500

http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/abstract.aspx?ID=207696

A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment.

Kelsey Donmoyer performed the editing this week.

Please follow us on:

Twitter: @Poli_Pros

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You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify.

If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at [email protected]

Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events.

The sixth episode features an election recap. While this was an “off year” for national races, there were plenty of local races, particularly for prosecutors. This episode looks at four of them: San Francisco, CA, Lancaster County, PA, Delaware County, PA, and Queens, NY. All of these races share a common feature in that the incumbent decided not to run again. Usually this situation is the only time prosecutor election are contested. This episode examines the candidates and the issues and what these elections might mean for the future of the prosecutorial function.

The sources used for reference in this episode are:

• https://theappeal.org/da-elections-take-shape-in-pennsylvania-and-boston-da-announces-new-reforms/

• https://www.healthinjustice.org/drug-induced-homicide

• https://www.billthompsonlaw.com/blog/2019/july/pennsylvania-files-the-most-drug-induced-homicid/

• http://www.drugpolicy.org/sites/default/files/dpa_drug_induced_homicide_report_0.pdf

• https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/stage-is-set-for-pennsylvanias-da-elections-a-preview/

• https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/drug-induced-homicide-da-elections-pennsylvania-new-york/

• https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&ttl=18&div=0&chpt=25&sctn=6&subsctn=0

• https://co.lancaster.pa.us/DocumentCenter/View/10788/Official-Candidate-Listing-for-the-November-5-2019-Municipal-Election

• https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/four-takeaways-from-tuesday-s-district-attorney-candidate-debate/article_a491352e-efc7-11e9-8eec-438d56f56d3a.html

• https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/03/central-pa-prosecutors-lead-state-in-charging-heroin-dealers-with-killing-their-customers.html

• http://www.pennstatelawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/813-837-Mauck-Formatted.pdf

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-da-race-chesa-boudin-wins-tightly-contested-election-over-suzy-loftus-2019-11-09/

• https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/The-Scanner-San-Francisco-ranks-No-1-in-13267113.php

• https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safecrime-data-and-mapsself-service-crime-data/crime-dashboard

• https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rate-and-property-crime-rate

• https://www.chesaboudin.com/about

• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/us/chesa-boudin-san-francisco-da.html

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground

• https://votesuzyloftus.com/priorities/get-tough-on-corporations-who-are-harming-our-city/

• https://www.jackfordelcoda.com/platform

• https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/Election-Day-Philadelphia-Mayor-Pennsylvania-New-Jersey-Delaware-County-District-Attorney-564520551.html

• https://www.delcotimes.com/news/dem-stollsteimer-upends-incumbent-gop-d-a-copeland/article_ce37c532-004d-11ea-bcf7-f38b58f19cc3.html

• https://katz4da.com/platform-sentencing-reform

• https://patch.com/new-york/queens/queens-borough-president-melinda-katz-claims-victory-da-race

https://patch.com/new-york/foresthills/judge-starts-review-disputed-ballots-queens-da-primary

A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment.

Collin Frankhouser performed the editing this week.

Please follow us on:

Twitter: @Poli_Pros

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You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify.

If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at [email protected]

Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events.

The fifth episode explores the issue of prosecutorial discretion. Recently, the college admissions scandal that has ensnared two actresses and many others has brought this prosecutor’s charging power to the public’s attention. As defendants delay or refuse to plead guilty, prosecutors continue adding charges and, thereby, the pressure to plead guilty. This episode describes the charging decision process and how it can be used, for better or worse. The episode features an interview with Stephen Cole, an Assistant District Attorney in the Guilford County (NC) District Attorney’s Office.

The sources used for reference in this episode are:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/us/lori-loughlin-not-guilty.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/22/772443604/new-charges-against-lori-loughlin-and-10-other-parents-in-admissions-case##targetText=The%20wealthy%20business%20people%20and,for%20the%20university's%20crew%20team.

https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a29673577/lori-loughlin-almost-pled-guilty-report/

https://www.amacdonaldlaw.com/blog/2017/november/understand-prosecutorial-overcharging-tactics/

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/05/cyrus-vance-jr-americas-prosecutor-problem-215786

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A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment.

Aurora Jaques performed the editing this week.

Please follow us on:

Twitter: @Poli_Pros

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You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify.

If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at [email protected]

Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events.

The fourth episode is the second of two that examine sexual assault prosecutions. This episode looks at the issue from a societal perspective. How society views sexual assault has changed in recent years, not to mention how it has changed over decades. The hosts discuss a variety of cases, including a United States Supreme Court case from the 1970s about revealing the victim’s identity and the recent prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein. We also have our first interview!

The sources used for reference in this episode are:

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1974/73-938

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2007/07-343

https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/blackboard.learn.xythos.prod/5a6a00cf15ab4/2464940?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27Scheingold%2520-%2520Policy%2520Politics%2520and%2520Crim%2520Courts.pdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20191105T184317Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=21600&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIL7WQYDOOHAZJGWQ%2F20191105%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=1d20351a7a9e0cd9ddc6d922b8d46842bf9879f443f58363293d5e07a104d526

https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/us/me-too-tarana-burke-origin-trnd/index.html

https://www.vox.com/2018/12/20/18138377/congress-sexual-harassment-bill

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/3749

https://ualr.edu/socialchange/2018/04/15/reflection-history-sexual-assault-laws-united-states/

http://historyofrapeculture.weebly.com/history-of-rape-culture.html

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9bkje5/for-context-heres-how-various-societies-punished-rapists

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a28352055/jeffrey-epstein-criminal-case-facts/

https://www.bustle.com/articles/182145-5-sentences-like-brock-turners-that-drive-home-how-poorly-our-system-handles-sex-assault

A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment.

Emma Horton performed the editing this week.

Please follow us on:

Twitter: @Poli_Pros

Instagram: Poli.n.Pros

You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify.

If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at [email protected]

Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media that contribute to both the academic discussion of these issues as well as inform the general public about the important but rarely observed role prosecutors play in our criminal justice system. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events.

The third episode is the first of two that examine sexual assault prosecutions. This episode looks at the issue from the standpoint of prosecutors refusing to prosecute. It examines the causes of this phenomenon and then considers possible reforms to encourage or require prosecutors to pursue sexual assault cases more vigorously.

The sources used for reference in this episode are:

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/199720.pdf

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1992-03761-001

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/23/us/metoo-replacements.html

https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violence

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/252689.pdf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/opinions/arlington-texas/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/us/border-patrol-sexual-assault.html

https://www.scribd.com/document/429381211/19-05-25-0480#fullscreen&from_embed

A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment.

Kelsey Donmoyer performed the editing this week.

Please follow us on:

Twitter: @Poli_Pros

Instagram: Poli.n.Pros

You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify.

If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at [email protected]

Welcome to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events.

The second episode explores the ongoing investigation into President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zalensky. In that phone call, the President discussed his desire for Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden, former Vice-President and current Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, over Hunter’s involvement with a Ukrainian energy company. The podcast examines the potential campaign finance criminal violation and discusses whether President Trump’s conduct rises to the level of a criminal violation. It concludes by examining other potential statutory violations the phone call implicates.

The sources used for reference in this episode are:

● https://qz.com/1719034/trump-and-ukraine-the-complete-impeachment-timeline/

● https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6430404-Whistleblowercomplaint.html

● https://www.cbsnews.com/news/read-the-transcript-summary-president-trump-call-with-ukrainian-president-volodomyr-zelensky/

● https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/politics/pompeo-trump-ukraine-phone-call/index.html

● https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/documents/20190930%20-%20Giuliani%20HPSCI%20Subpoena%20Schedule%20Only.pdf

● https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/25/us/politics/trump-ukraine-transcript.html

● https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/24/full-trump-ukraine-timeline-now/

● https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-justice-department-s-legal-opinion-in-the-trump-ukraine-whistleblower-case/dabea65d-38e9-4e4c-a860-4fc050c69713/

● https://www.npr.org/2019/09/23/763521158/rudy-giulianis-role-in-trump-ukraine-call

● https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/03/politics/gop-senators-echoed-biden-on-ukraine-reforms-kfile/index.html

● https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-gas-company-burisma-holdings-joe-bidens-son-hunter-explained-2019-9

● https://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/1/essays/18/punishment-for-impeachment

● https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/25/11.448

● https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30121

● https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-gas-tycoon-and-the-vice-presidents-son-the-story-of-hunter-bidens-foray-in-ukraine/2019/09/28/1aadff70-dfd9-11e9-8fd3-d943b4ed57e0_story.html

● https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2019/0930/Joe-and-Hunter-Biden-Three-questions-about-Ukraine-corruption

● https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/hunter-biden-comprehensive-timeline/

● https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/462660-five-things-to-know-about-the-whistleblower-complaint

A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment.

Collin Frankhouser performed the editing this week.

Please follow us on:

Twitter: @Poli_Pros

Instagram: Poli.n.Pros

You can find this podcast on iTunes and Spotify.

If you have comments, questions, concerns or criticisms, you can email us at [email protected]

Welcome to the first-ever Politics of Prosecution Podcast. This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. Our first series of eight episodes is produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events.

The first episode explores an ongoing matter between the President of the United States, Donald Trump, his accounting firm, Mazurs, and the Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance. The President brought the case in federal district court to obtain an injunction against Mazurs to prevent them from responding to the District Attorney’s Grand Jury subpoena seeking the President’s tax records. The District Attorney obtained the subpoena for the tax records as part of an ongoing investigation into then-Presidential-candidate Donald Trump’s alleged payments to two women accusing him of sexual assault. The episode examines the legal and constitutional issues this case presents.

The sources used for reference in this episode are:

https://www.history.com/topics/1970s/watergate

https://www.history.com/topics/1980s/iran-contra-affair

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-sues-manhattan-prosecutor-to-block-subpoenas-for-tax-returns-his-latest-effort-to-halt-investigations-into-his-finances/2019/09/19/e9d83bec-daea-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/19/politics/tax-records-trump-lawsuit/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/politics/sdny-trump-tax-lawsuit/index.html

A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use the Mini-Studio and his outstanding recording equipment.

Aurora Jaques performed the editing this week.

Please follow us on:

Twitter: @Poli_Pros

Instagram: Poli.n.Pros

Email comments, questions, concerns or criticisms to [email protected]