Steven Zeidman

January 19, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Steven Zeidman writes: In 'McCoy', the Supreme Court must decide whether it is unconstitutional for defense counsel to concede a client's guilt over his express objection.

By Steven Zeidman

8 minute read

February 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

If New York is truly going to be a national leader in the clemency movement we must reach higher than the low hanging fruit of so-called non-violent drug offenders.

By Steven Zeidman

4 minute read

August 20, 2014 | New York Law Journal

For the past 20 years, New Yorkers have heard only one note about criminal justice, the city is safer than ever. Nothing was said and no questions were raised about who was arrested, for what, or what happened to them after arrest. Recent revelations, however, sound cause for alarm.

By Steven Zeidman

7 minute read

February 07, 2014 | New York Law Journal

By Steven Zeidman

4 minute read

August 28, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Steven Zeidman, a professor at the City University of New York Law School, writes: Somehow missing in the stop-and-frisk conflagration is the one institutional entity that is specifically charged with monitoring the police and addressing the constitutionality of police behavior on a daily basis - the New York City Criminal Court.

By Steven Zeidman

6 minute read

March 24, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Steven Zeidman, director of CUNY School of Law's criminal defense clinic, writes that coinciding with legislative and executive interest in indigent criminal defense is a rare opportunity for the Judiciary to intervene. In 2007, the New York Civil Liberties Union sued New York State alleging systemic and flagrant violations of the constitutional right to counsel. In a rare kind of legal perfect storm, the case was heard yesterday by the Court of Appeals.

By Steven Zeidman

6 minute read

April 02, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Steven Zeidman, a professor of law at CUNY School of Law, writes: Imagine a place where the local police annually stop and frisk about 530,000 people, arrest 360,000, and issue summonses to another 600,000, for a staggering total of over 1.5 million such law-enforcement encounters. Imagine as well that close to 90 percent of those arrested, stopped and frisked, or issued a summons are people of color. You need not imagine; that is the reality in New York City.

By Steven Zeidman

7 minute read