U.S. v. GOYAL: STRETCHING THE CRIMINAL LAW BEYOND ITS PROPER BOUNDS
To most it is an obvious point: The purview of criminal law should cover criminal conduct. Yet that point maybe lost on some since, as Chief Judge Alex Kozinski points out, United States v. Goyal, No. 08-10436 (9th Cir. Dec. 10, 2010) is just the latest in a “string of recent cases in which courts have found that federal prosecutors overreached by trying to stretch...