Three Felonies A Day, Harvey A. Silverglate
Three Felonies A Day, Harvey A. Silverglate
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Three Felonies A Day
How the Feds Target the Innocent

Author: Harvey A. Silverglate, Alan M. Dershowitz

Narrator: Chris Sorensen

Unabridged: 13 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/23/2018

Synopsis

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.

About Harvey A. Silverglate

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 cofounder 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Frank on January 09, 2013

A series of case studies by a civil liberties lawyer on the myriad ways federal prosecutors can indict and sometimes convict people based on seemingly normal conduct. Silvergate highlights some important reasons why federal law is so elastic. One is that it lacks many of the "common law" protections......more

Goodreads review by Josh on September 22, 2013

A very thought provoking book, though it could just be that I am an attorney who, from time to time, finds himself on the defense end of a criminal case. I work in an office building with some of the preeminant criminal defense attorneys in the city of Buffalo. Some of them do a great deal of work in......more

Goodreads review by Kim on September 07, 2010

Absolutely outstanding. Tremendous advocacy withoug being polemical. I recommend this to all. Unfortunately, it is disturbing to the point of being almost too depressing to complete. It is a book that compels you to talk to your friends about it......more

Goodreads review by John on February 01, 2011

Not as good as I'd expected. I wanted a collection of stories about regulators, law enforcement officials and busybodies targeting common people. Instead, I got a few overwritten anecdotes about the Feds going after local politicians, corporations, and junk bond traders. Sure, if these people were i......more

Goodreads review by Steve on June 15, 2011

Vanity recounting of cases that offers nearly zero support of the title-worth contention, and has no actionable material. Sort of a big fat Atlantic Magazine style article as a book............more

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