Eric Blumenson is an expert on both criminal justice and drug enforcement policy. Formerly a public defender and associate in a private criminal practice, he has been teaching criminal law and a criminal clinical program at Suffolk Law School since 1975. His studies on the economic incentives fueling the drug war, and the role of property forfeiture on police fund-raising have been published in both academic and popular press. He is also the author of a two volume criminal defense manual, and serves as Reporter to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts' Standing Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure, where he has been appointed to redraft the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure.

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