August 14, 2005

Focus Law: Do lawyers have free speech?

Robert Sedler, a constitutional law professor at Wayne State , believes that lawyers in fact do have freedom of speech when commenting about judges. Sedler says that lawyers, like everyone else, have a First Amendment right to make public statements that criticize courts, judges, prosecutors and the administration of justice. Stephen Safranek, a law professor at the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor , disagrees with Sedler's opinion and debates otherwise.

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