Winning by staying true to our principles- Harvey Silverglate & Robert Corn-Revere

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One of the two founders of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education figured the group might last a few years. Instead, its other co-founder, Harvey Silverglate, describes the group -- renamed Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression -- as having filled the gap that was left when the ACLU became more of a progressive organization and less of a free expression protector. Fairfax criminal and DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz first met criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate over twenty years ago through their mutual membership in the Naitonal Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He met Robert Corn-Revere -- now FIRE's chief counsel -- through their mutual membership in the First Amendment Lawyers Association, of which Bob is a past president. Both Bob and Harvey are CATO Institute fellows. Jon Katz has advised a conservative student referred by FIRE, in his campus disciplinary proceeding when his private university trampled on his right to videotape a campus speaker and public figure when no warning had been made against such recording activity. Jon was also referred by FIRE to advise a state university professor whose First Amendment rights were violated by being suspended from his job due to an uproar by numerous alumni and members of the public after he appeared as an unwitting hotseat guest of the O'Reilly Factor (on which show Jon has twice appeared, and also has appeared twice on the Radio Factor.)
What becomes readily apparent in this Beat the Prosecution episode is that staying true to our principles helps criminal defense and civil liberties lawyers win in court. Listen as Harvey tells of the jury nullification that delivered him acquittals of nearly two hundred people prosecuted for trespassing in the carrying away from the office of Harvard university's president in his chair, in protest over the Vietnam war. Hear Bob tell about winning in the Supreme Court against a prosecution under a statute criminalizing the filming of animal cruelty, where the statute was aimed in part at crush films, with the petitioner having been prosecuted over filming dogfighting. Visit here to donate to FIRE and here to become a member.

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