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

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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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392 pages
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English
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Encounter Books
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June 7, 2011
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6.17 x 1.04 x 8.97 inches
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1594035229
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978-1594035227
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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Encounter Books (June 7, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594035229
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594035227
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.28 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.17 x 1.04 x 8.97 inches

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jsh

Wildly Biased Anecdotes Aren't Data

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2019

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Admittedly I didn't get too far into this, but that just illustrates how poorly authored this book is. The author claims that I'm committing three felonies every day. To support this, this book should be a cold, logical analysis of the federal codes that define illegal behavior and why they are, of necessity, interpreted to be wildly general.
Instead, this book is a collection of individual cases with no broad application to the population in general. So we have a corrupt local politician whom the author defends like the Nazis defended Berlin. Corrupt state politicians whom the public is supposed to vote out of office, even though no individual is capable of raising enough money to challenge an incumbent backed by a state-wide political machine, and one of the reasons the federal government still exists is to deal with problems like that.
We also have examples of gross prosecutorial misconduct -- the kind that should bring RICO-level criminal terms (or hanging, in my opinion). Oh, and proseccutorial corruption at a pretty extreme le... uh ...
Is there misconduct by federal prosecutors? I can't judge that because the other case studies are so egregiously biased that I can't trust the author any more. And at that point, why read on?
This book is the sad result of someone confusing fiction with reality. No right is absolute, and this book is a great example of something deserving to be censored because it so grossly biases its view of reality that it qualifies as libel.
This book is an example of how to do it wrong.

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So Cal

Scary Book with Too Much Truth

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2018

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A scary book about the ever-expanding reach of criminal sanctions for violations of unknown government regulations. We as a nation need to demand a massive simplification of regulation -- although they do empower bureaucrats and enrich politicians as we pay bribes (aka campaign donations) to limit personal damage or to gain advantage. For example, the Calif saltwater fishing regulations are now 98 pages of small type with an outrageous number of cross-references and Lat. / Long. citations......which no normal person can possibly fully understand, but most of which carry criminal sanctions including felon prosecution for violations, as well as byzantine administrative punishments, fines, and forfeitures. ..... a triumph of authoritarian progressivism.

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Ernest Williams

Reading this book will help you protect yourself

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019

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As one born in America, I thought I had a foundational understanding of the American criminal justice system, but I was wrong. Reading Silverglate's "Three Felonies A Day" improved my understanding of the role and powers of important actors in a courtroom: defense attorney; judge; and prosecutor. In my view, prosecutors have too much power and can easily abuse their power. I recommend that the U.S. Congress do the following: (1) do away with mandatory minimum sentences for crimes; (2) give state and federal judges more discretion over sentencing; (3) oversee the revising of federal criminal statutes that are too vague and generalized; (4) mandate that prosecutors prove criminal intent; (5) legally mandate that state and federal prosecutor offices have to pay the legal fees of criminal defendants, if they are found not guilty; (6) limit and have greater oversight of plea bargaining; (7) prosecute prosecutors for illegal acts and misusing state and federal statutes to criminalize conduct that is not deemed criminal; (8) audit how judges; state and federal prosecutors handle and decide cases; properly fund public defender offices; (9) stop allowing poor defendants to be railroaded through state and federal courts; and (10) stop allowing the the president and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to hide behind "national security," when they lack evidence and will likely lose in a legal battle. There are many changes that need to be made to America's criminal justice system, which is designed to make money and be a weapon against individuals and groups deemed a threat to the status quo. The DOJ has no problem destroying innocent wealthy individuals and corporations; therefore, a poor person does not stand a chance! If you are a member of America's poor; working-class or so-called middle-class, you need to read and buy this book! Learn about the traps that local police; DOJ; FBI; and prosecutors use to prey on the citizenry.

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G-Man

Extremely educational

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2020

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As a private investigator, I have been involved in criminal defense as well as putting together criminal (and civil) cases, not only for law enforcement but private clients.. In one of the my most important criminal defense cases I watched our client, who had signed a cooperative agreement to testify against the actual perpetrator, end up being charged because he could not remember all the details from eight years ago. The prosecutors withdrew the agreement and charged him with the crime. He was ultimately convicted, even though the agreement said that, even if he lied, he could only be charged with complicity, not the crime.

The criminal system, especially in these times, may seem to be racial but I can assure you it is not. It is, however, prejudiced against the indigent, regardless of race or status.

This book opened my eyes to many high-levels cases, with which I was familiar, and how they played out.

If nothing else (and there is much), it is a call for term limits for our politicians.

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Long Islander

Sadly eye opening

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2019

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Shocking insight to judicial and law enforcement abuses. I am a conservative leaning independent but this book is an eye opening must read.
The not so slow and not so subtle misuse to abuse of America’s court system as a tool to harass and even extort Americans is shameful. Politics, ego and greed are omnipotent in our law books and courts.

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Clifford S. Dayton

Good information

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2020

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I have often found myself thinking that there is a good reason to arrest someone, otherwise why arrest them. This book set me straight. Sometime someone wants to send a message and will twist the law to make that message. I've done other reading and it has convinced that we should rename the department justice to injustice. This book point out how they do it, if not why. Why would require mind reading. Whole some claim to "know exactly why" they are either lying or to ignorant to understand they are reading their own bias and ignorance.

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Tony Milne

The Law is the Enemy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2018

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For anyone who ever thought - "It will never happen to me" - this is a warning.

Sam54

A must read for anyone who is not already convinced ...

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A must read for anyone who is not already convinced of how each and everyone of us is vulnerable to the government's arbitrary enforcement of law.

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