Using Judicial Opinions to Explain Criminal Prosecutions of Celebrities, Politicians, and Gangsters [S-25-44]

The U.S. criminal justice system prosecutes criminal cases that garner public notoriety. These cases involve celebrities, politicians, and criminals who are famous for their professional achievements, or who are idolized as icons in subcultures of American society. This SOAR presentation will focus on appellate judicial opinions of criminal prosecutions of notoriety, for instance, the Pennsylvania appellate court opinion addressing the prosecution of celebrity Bill Cosby, or the California appellate court decision of the subculture icon Charles Manson. Understanding the process for criminal appeals is helpful to describe and explain our U.S. judicial branches at the federal and state levels for challenging substantive laws, procedural laws, and rules of evidence that may or may not violate federal and state constitutional rights.

Charles Everett Robinson has been an assistant professor in the criminal justice department at the SUNY College of Technology at Canton since August 2023. His teaching experience is comprehensive and extensive with criminal justice courses and criminology courses. His legal career includes experience in state and federal criminal and civil trial litigation, state and federal criminal and civil appellate litigation, and state and federal administrative litigation. As a military veteran, he is a former captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University, his M.A. in Criminal Justice from the SUNY at Albany School of Criminal Justice, and his law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law.

Special Instructions:

A map of the SUNY Canton campus can be found on the SOAR homepage http://soarnorthcountry.com half way down in the panel on the right labeled "Documents."

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