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Justin Marceau

  • Contributor, Vox
  • Professor, University of Denver
Denver
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Law Professor. Former public defender. Expert in criminal law and procedure, free speech, habeas corpus, animal law. Author of Beyond Cages.
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He freed chickens from a Petaluma factory farm. California’s Supreme Court should exonerate him

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By Matthew Liebman, Justin Marceau
| San Francisco Chronicle Verified
When Wayne Hsiung and other animal rights activists entered Sunrise Farms, a giant egg facility in Petaluma, on May 29, 2018, to provide aid to suffering chickens, they thought their right to rescue these birds would be protected from criminal liability by California’s “necessity defense,” which justifies breaking the law to prevent a “significant evil.” The necessity defense helps to ensure that people do not hesitate to intervene to prevent harm out of fear that they will be prosecuted for...
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He freed chickens from a Petaluma factory farm. California’s Supreme Court should exonerate him

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By Matthew Liebman, Justin Marceau
| Flipboard
Now Donald Trump knew as well as anyone that he had lost the 2020 presidential election fair and square. He knew there was no conspiracy to commit voter fraud — no mysterious mail ballots, no “illegal” voting, no suspicious activity in key swing states. When he told his supporters that the election had …
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Can dogs be considered “persons” under the law ?

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By Angela Fernandez, Justin Marceau
| Yahoo Verified
A dog inside Ridglan Farms photographed as part of an investigation by the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere. | Direct Action Everywhere Outside the rural town of Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, about 2,000 dogs await their fate in small wire cages. They are confined at Ridglan Farms, a large-scale breeding operation that supplies beagles for research labs across the country. The current law treats the dogs as property of the company.
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