Professor Chin Cited in Ninth Circuit Dissent

Scholarship by Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin was cited by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt in his dissent in United States v. Teofil Brank. In that case, the Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a lower court decision that was based on a broad definition of extortion that included threats of injury to reputation. Reinhardt argues that a narrower definition should have been employed, in part because of the weighty consequences of conviction. He cites Professor Chin’s “The New Civil Death: Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Conviction” (160 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1789, 1799-1803 (2012)) in referencing the collateral consequences of criminal convictions.

Gabriel "Jack" Chin is Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law and holder of the Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Endowed Chair at UC Davis School of Law. He is a prolific and much-cited criminal and immigration law scholar whose work has addressed many of the most pressing social issues of our time.

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