Bennett L. Gershman

November 14, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Why do the courts really have to take so long to decide these cases?

By Joel Cohen and Bennett L. Gershman

6 minute read

June 17, 2019 | New York Law Journal

What really is morally and intellectually indefensible--which Mr. Richman overlooks--is the mob-like rush to judgment in 1989 against these five innocent boys by the media, the public and Donald Trump, who insinuated himself with his front-page incendiary call for the death penalty.

By Bennett L. Gershman

3 minute read

March 13, 2018 | Law.com

In November 2007, as American soldiers were still being killed daily in Iraq, Mario Cuomo received an award for outstanding public service from the…

By Joel Cohen and Bennett L. Gershman

6 minute read

October 22, 2013 | New York Law Journal

By Jay C. Carlisle II, Randolph M. McLaughlin, Bennett L. Gershman, Merril Sobie

3 minute read

November 02, 2009 | National Law Journal

Procedural gamesmanship by prosecutors is not new, but proving denial of a fair trial is getting harder.

By Bennett L. Gershman

4 minute read

November 13, 2009 | The Recorder

The judge and prosecutor were having an affair during his murder trial, but Charles Hood got no relief.

By Bennett L. Gershman

4 minute read

November 19, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

The judge and prosecutor were having an affair during his murder trial, but Charles Hood got no relief.

By Bennett L. Gershman

4 minute read

October 11, 2004 | National Law Journal

It�s not often that the defense makes a motion for a new trial—and the prosecution helps out with a memorandum condemning the prosecutor. But that�s what happened, on a grand scale, in the Detroit �sleeper cell� case, and it serves to point up the type and degree of prosecutorial misconduct that can be found in this country�s justice system.

By Bennett L. Gershman Special to The National Law Journal

5 minute read

June 14, 2004 | National Law Journal

The FBSs error in wrongly identifying the fingerprints of an Oregon lawyer in connection with the Madrid bombing brings to sharp light the long-simmering debate over the reliability of our nations forensic laboratories.

By Bennett L. GershmanSpecial to The National Law Journal

5 minute read

March 21, 2011 | National Law Journal

Government's initial motion to prevent the filing of 'friend of the court' briefs in Rubashkin case was unusual and troubling.

By Bennett L. Gershman and Joel Cohen

5 minute read