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Selected Readings
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From the New York Review of Books: Dr.
Mario Jascalevich is on trial in New Jersey, charged with the murder,
by curare poisoning, of a number of hospital patients in 1965 and 1966.
His indictment was the direct result of a series of articles about the
deaths of these patients written by a reporter for The New York Times, Myron Farber. Jascalevich's lawyer. Raymond Brown, asked the trial judge to order Farber and the Times to
turn over to the defense all the notes, memoranda, interview records,
and other material Farber compiled during his investigation. Judge
Arnold ordered, instead, that all such material be delivered to him, so
that he himself could determine whether any of it was sufficiently
relevant that it should be given to Brown. Farber refused this order,
and was jailed for contempt, though he has since been released.  |
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From the New York Times Review of Books: Our
Constitution demands that we run that risk in our ordinary criminal
process: no doubt our police would be more efficient in preventing
crime, and we would all be safer, if we ignored the rights of due
process at home. The world is shocked by our willingness to abandon
what we claim to be our most fundamental values just because our
victims are foreigners. We must hope that Camp X-Ray and Abu Ghraib
soon become symbols of a national aberration, like the
Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, that we must take
care not to repeat, rather than evidence of what, to our shame, we have
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Ronald Dworkin is Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University. 
