Brian Walsh and Benjamin Keane of the Heritage Foundation explore the collision between ever-advancing criminalization and the values of the U.S. Constitution. [Heritage Legal Memorandum]
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on April 29, 2011
Brian Walsh and Benjamin Keane of the Heritage Foundation explore the collision between ever-advancing criminalization and the values of the U.S. Constitution. [Heritage Legal Memorandum]
Tagged as: constitutional law, crime and punishment, prosecution

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