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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent Paperback – June 7, 2011

by Harvey Silverglate (Author), Alan M. Dershowitz (Foreword)

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The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to “white collar criminals,” state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.

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HARVEY A. SILVERGLATE is counsel to Boston’s Zalkind, Rodriguez, Lunt & Duncan LLP, specializing in criminal defense, civil liberties, and academic freedom/student rights law. He is co-founder and Chairman of FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) and is a regular columnist for The Boston Phoenix. Silverglate has been published in The National Law Journal, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. He is author of The Shadow University with Alan Charles Kors.

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Paperback: 392 pages
Publisher: Encounter Books (June 7, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594035229
ISBN-13: 978-1594035227
Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 6 x 9 inches
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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

ByMichael A. Foxon November 1, 2009

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Harvey Silverglate does an extraordinary job analyzing the erosion of rights and the risks it carries to liberty in America in his book, Three Felonies a Day, How the Feds Target the Innocent.

This book is a must read for anyone who cares about the preservation of liberty and putting a check on the encroachment of the federal government in the every day lives of citizens.

He shows how the Department of Justice has led a steady march to expand their reach into the lives of ordinary Americans. The result? Panoply of laws giving them the right to prosecute just about anyone for anything at will.

Their broad application of the Deprivation of Honest Services Statutes in White Collar Crime and a host of other legal gymnastics give them a club every bit as powerful as the Soviet Union at the height of its power. In the Soviet Union and other dictatorships the tools of federalization of all crimes and trampling liberties usually reside in what is commonly called "Defamation Statutes."

Mr. Silverglate identifies numerous laws and Department of Justice interpretations and applications that give them authority rivaling the Soviet Union in its heyday. This boils down to a scandalous use of the federal instruments of powers residing in the executive branch at the Department of Justice that go unchecked.

For anyone who cares about liberty I recommend this book. It is makes a powerful contribution to the cause of justice and freedom and ranks as a modern day call to action equal to Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense published in 1776.

Mr. Siverglate brings current day threats to our liberties into focus just as Mr. Paine brought the need for the American Revolution into focus in 1776. For Mr. Paine liberty and freedom's enemy resided in King George of England; to Mr. Silverglate it can be found in a runaway Department of Justice intent on expanding its power to intrude and reach into the life of every American.

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a lucid and powerful indictment of federal criminal law enforcement

ByMalick Ghachemon September 21, 2009

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This is a very thoughtful and vigorously argued book about the injustices that arise when prosecutors seek to expand the reach of federal criminal statutes beyond their proper field of application. The author has litigated many of the cases he discusses, and is able to translate the complexities of that experience intelligently and without condescension, but also without all of the unnecessary technical details that lawyers writing for a general audience sometimes get bogged down in. Harvey Silverglate is an institution in his own right: a tireless advocate for civil liberties, prolific writer, and astute student of the law, there are few people who have a stronger commitment to illuminating the practical workings of the criminal justice system and their relationship to broader currents in the law. This is a must-read for those interested in criminal law, civil liberties, and the recent history of the Department of Justice, by a writer who has the courage of his convictions and voices them powerfully and well.

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Excellent Description of Government Gone Wild

ByMarvelous Malon April 18, 2015

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A totalitarian political activist once stated that, "The Personal Is Political." The horrifying implications of this statement are described in this book. Government has attempted to insert itself into all aspects of human activity, including the most personal choices and, now, even thoughts. This book is another good summary of what has gone wrong with our government. A maze of ever-expanding laws is a symptom of the government's unquenchable thirst for power and corruption. Pure political issues are kept to a minimum; facts, experience, and logic are the focus of the book. The entire momentum of government by both major political parties is to take freedom and power from individuals. Government is grabbing power at all levels, among other ways, by using the criminal system to control innocuous but politicized conduct. And this power is being wielded outside of the political system. Agencies such as the FTC, EPA, FCC, etc., create thousands of laws and regulations that the public and Congress may never know about. The government's attack on freedom is a seamless web. It starts with confiscatory taxes and ends with armed men breaking down your door in the middle of the night for some unknown, Kafkaesque violation. Buy this book to understand the malignant cancer that is modern American Government and Law. Of course, if Dershowitz recommends it, it can't be all bad! Other good books on the topic are, "Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything," G. Healy; and, "Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent," H. Silverstein.

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This book brought to light a great many concerns with our legal system and should be required reading for lawyers and anyone concerned about the rights of human beings.

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