Professor of Law
San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES
Contacts: littler@uchastings.edu / 415-565-4669 / Office 338-200
J.D., Law
1982
KQED online
2015-03-23
“This is a big issue: Should the mentally ill be handled by the police differently?” UC Hastings law professor Rory Little said. “Increasingly, police are confronting people with mental illness on the streets or in their homes or apartments, and there is a growing concern that the confrontational approach of the police unnecessarily stimulates violence.”...
view moreSalon online
2015-02-15
Legal experts say the new law will likely prompt the California Supreme Court to reconsider Richards’ case. “The new statute definitely changes the standard by which the recanted bite mark evidence must be evaluated,” said Rory Little, a former federal prosecutor who is now a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law...
view moreMerinji online
2015-01-28
“I think the judge absolutely made the correct call here,” said Rory Little, a San Rafael resident who is a law professor at the University of California, Hastings. “A ... guy tailgates you all the way to your house, down your driveway, and into your garage. Your wife is with you. You are both now terrified. You get a gun and warn the guy away, and he keeps coming at you? There is no jurisdiction whose law would say you cannot at that point in your own home, shoot.”...
view moreThe Washington Times online
2015-01-09
“I’ve never been involved in a case that had any degree of complexity that didn’t have stray documents laying around,” said Rory Little, a former federal prosecutor who now teaches at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco...
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2014-03-01
"If it does come into play, you then have to decide, well, what is the reasonable accommodation for a mentally ill person?," said UC Hastings College of the Law professor Rory Little. "The response to police departments in general to the mentally ill on the street has been evolving very quickly over the last five or six years because so many encounters have become high-publicity moments."...
view moreHastings Law Journal
2010-01-01
In late 2005, I was asked by the ABA Criminal Justice Standards Committee whether I would serve as "Reporter" to a Task Force that was being formed to consider revisions to the Criminal Justice Standards for Prosecution and Defense Functions. The call did not come out of the blue; I had previously worked with the ABA in various capacities...
view moreOhio Northern University Law Review
2000-01-01
The future is, of course, an unknowable, richly textured affair woven from many threads and shaped by unpredicted forces and events. Law professors have no special claim to predicting the future accurately, and are probably less successful at it than many others...
view moreFordham Law Review
1999-01-01
Prosecutors investigate. This is, of course, not really news. Public prosecutors in this country have increasingly become involved in the investigative stages of criminal matters during the 20th century. But the extraordinarily public and microscopic focus ...
view moreFordham Urban Law Journal
1998-01-01
Federal crimes have been accompanied by death penalties since the First Congress's first crime bill in April 1790. However, unlike state prosecutors, federal prosecutors have not had to evaluate potential death penalty cases until the last few years. From 1972, when ...
view moreFordham Law Review
1996-01-01
Early in 1995, legislation appeared in the United States Senate containing a startling one-sentence provision:" Notwithstanding the ethical rules or the rules of the court of any State, Federal rules of conduct adopted by the Attorney General shall govern the conduct of ...
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