Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperilled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law until himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the ends justifies the means – to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal – would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this Court should resolutely set its face.Justice Brandeis, dissenting
Olmstead v. United States
277 U.S. 438, 485 (1927)

2017 Federal Criminal Practice Seminar

Federal Criminal Practice Seminar will be held on August 18, 2017 at the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Assoc., 1375 East Ninth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44114. Registration deadline is August 11, 2017. Click the link below for more information.

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2017 Federal Criminal Practice Seminar