Leon Polsky

December 18, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Sending someone to prison should be the hardest thing a judge sitting in a criminal term should ever have to do, yet we have made it too damn easy with our politically mandated mandatory sentences.

By Leon Polsky

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December 04, 2018 | New York Law Journal

New York is one of a dozen states that does not have an automatic exemption or excusal from jury service for persons over a certain age---usually 65 or 70.

By Leon Polsky

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January 13, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Commission on Statewide Attorney Discipline's advocacy of inter-departmental uniformity and the "harmonizing" of disciplinary sanctions smacks of the sentence uniformity of the federal sentencing guidelines, something which has been wisely and repeatedly rejected by New York.

By Leon Polsky

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January 12, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Commission on Statewide Attorney Discipline's advocacy of inter-departmental uniformity and the "harmonizing" of disciplinary sanctions smacks of the sentence uniformity of the federal sentencing guidelines, something which has been wisely and repeatedly rejected by New York.

By Leon Polsky

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July 06, 2015 | New York Law Journal

While I am of course concerned with the trial participant who does not wish to be made part of a broadcast docu-drama, in an odd way I am more concerned with the participant who does.

By Leon Polsky

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July 02, 2015 | New York Law Journal

While I am of course concerned with the trial participant who does not wish to be made part of a broadcast docu-drama, in an odd way I am more concerned with the participant who does.

By Leon Polsky

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