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East Hampton Overview
Coldwell Banker Helps You Learn More About East Hampton, Connecticut Real Estate
East Hampton, Connecticut is located in Middlesex. Nearby cities and towns include Higganum, Lake Pocotopaug, Moodus, Portland and Terramuggus. East Hampton is a suburban community with a population of 2,806. The median household income in East Hampton is $82,320. 60% of residents are married and families with children reside in 33% of East Hampton households. Half the population of East Hampton commutes 26 minutes or more to work, with 83% of residents holding white collar jobs and 17% residents holding blue collar jobs.
The median age of homes in East Hampton, CT is 42 years, with 82% of those homes owned, 11% rented and 6% not occupied. In the previous year, 0 East Hampton properties were sold. The median sale price of a home in East Hampton in the previous year was $200,000. Find a Coldwell Banker real estate agent in East Hampton, Connecticut today.
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76 - 78 Johnson Rd., Marlborough, 06447
Marlborough, CT 06447
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Colchester, CT 06415
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8 Mark Twain Dr.
East Hampton, CT 06424
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10 Barrie Rd.
East Hampton, CT 06424
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78 Johnson Rd
Marlborough, CT 06447
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76 Johnson Rd.
Marlborough, CT 06447
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Lot 7 Nutmeg Circle
Colchester, CT 06415
4 Beds, 2 Baths
16 West Cove Rd.
East Haddam, CT 06423
4 Beds, 2 Baths
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Priyanka Chopra spoke highly of her family, especially her father at even given opportunity. More recently upon her return from LA during an interview, she speaks about her feelings prior to her father's departure, while he was battling against cancer.
As a child, I loved reading. I just loved sitting on the window and reading and watching down on the streets. My dad was in the army so we were always on the move. He taught me to drive at 13 when he'd take me to school. I was very scared of driving… My dad used to be a doctor in the army until he took voluntary retirement in 1997. He' s a trained artiste, painter and singer. He used to be called the singing surgeon. He used to do shows for the army. My dad sings, though not professionally. I'm a big fan of my father's singing. I love singing. Ever since I was a child, I dreamt of getting in a white gown to sing on stage like Whitney Houston. I've been trained in Western classical singing. I used to sing soprano in a choir." One of my earliest memories — when I was three — is of my dad on stage looking at me and singing. If he didn't look at me while singing I'd get extremely miffed. Sometimes he used to call me on the stage to sing an African song that I knew
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We come from a very conservative family. All this glamour and showbiz was very new to my dad. It was my mom who told him about my plans… I wasn't willing to talk to him about it. Initially, he wasn't convinced. But my mom and I reasoned that it was just a holiday in Mumbai and that I didn't stand a chance in hell of winning. Who knew?! I had never modeled before. I had my portfolio done for the first time for the pageant. I thought myself as a very ugly child. I saw myself as an ugly duckling who's one day turn into a swan. Before the pageant, I used to cry to my mom about how ugly I was. Even now, it takes 90 minutes of hair clothes and makeup to make me look decent. After I won Miss India my mom and I moved to Mumbai. Dad joined us later. And so did my brother. Dad has always been super-encouraging. We bought a house and started a clinic for mom and dad. They became practicing doctors again. He later joined Leelavati as managing director." The aura of happiness faded away. "His illness was a big blow. My dad always told me to keep working normally. I'd never let him down by letting the strain show. Now that he's healing I feel grateful…. grateful that this trauma happened at a time when I could afford his treatment. I'm so relieved I could afford the best treatment. If it had happened two years ago I wouldn't have been able to do anything. I've always believed daughters care as much as sons, if not more. And even when they get married they continue to care a lot more for their parents. My mom has several sisters and my naani stays with all of them.


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Turnabout Storm Bad EndingIt is the end. I can't do anything about this. An innocent pony is going to be punished for a crime she didn't commit and there is nothing I can do to change it. I could try to change my case by saying that she was temporarily insane, but I already gave my case that she was completely innocent. I have to think of something fast.Turnabout Storm Bad Ending by nauticlord1
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Several South Georgia children battling childhood cancer got to participate in a rodeo in Hahira Saturday. It was the third annual "Ride for Life" rodeo hosted by KB Horse Camp, which is located in Hahira. The children rode horses through a predetermined course in an outdoor arena at KB Horse Camp.
The proceeds from the rodeo are used to help the children's families pay their children's medical bills. "Have you ever ridden a horse?," four year old Holly was asked as she sat on a horse waiting to ride around the arena. She smiled and nodded, and then smiled and nodded again when asked if she was going to have fun riding in the rodeo.
Nine year old Savannah has ridden in the rodeo each of the last two years . She said she was looking forward to riding in the rodeo for the third time.
"Just havin' fun," Savannah responded when asked what she was most looking forward to.
Savannah's father, Scott, looks forward to the rodeo each year as well.
"It's just brining joy and happiness to kids who have been robbed of their childhood, you know," said Scott, fighting back tears. Family members of some of the children who lost their battle with cancer also participated in the rodeo.
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Ritter, formerly of 'The Event' will return to 'Parenthood.' According to TVLine, Ritter will reprise his role of Mark, the sometimes boyfriend to Lauren Graham's Sarah. Look for him early in Season 3. 'Parenthood' returns to NBC Tues., Sept. 13 at 10PM.
TVLine also reports Ritter is working with 'Friday Night Lights' guru and 'Parenthood' executive producer Jason Katims on a new show for NBC. Details on the project are scarce, but it will be an hour-long drama.
'Law & Order: LA' star Alfred Molina is bouncing back from his show's cancellation with a role on 'Harry's Law.' The David E. Kelley legal drama that stars Kathy Bates will welcome Molina in the Season 2 premiere airing Wed., Sept. 21.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Molina will play Eric Sanders, a man accused of murdering his wife. The actor will appear in multiple episodes of Season 2.
'Friday Night Lights' star Michael B. Jordan is also returning to 'Parenthood.' According to the Hollywood Reporter, he'll recur during Season 3.
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The Multicultural Arts Bazaar is open Monday-Friday from 10:30am-6pm, and accepts cash and credit cards.
The Multicultural Arts Bazaar features artwork, crafts, and other items created by local artists and artisans. Many of the featured works for sale in our Bazaar were created by artists who have exhibited in our galleries as well. Items include jewelry, clothing, artwork, books, CDs, postcards and notecards, accessories and more.
Artists receive 75% of all Bazaar sales, with 25% of sales helping to support programs at the Multicultural Arts Center.
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The Wilkinson-Keith Family Papers consist of correspondence and other documents among the Wilkinson, Keith, Siegling, Haskell, and Marshall families and their friends dating from 1785 to 1920. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1820 to 1890, a large portion of which chronicles Willis Keith's experiences as a Confederate soldier in 1862-1863. Antebellum correspondence discusses Charleston fires, great details of family illnesses and their cures, plantation life (more specifically, destruction/endurance of crops and treatment of slaves), and general details about everyday life.
William A. Rosenthall's collection of Judaica postcards. A particular collecting focus of Rosenthall was images of synagogues located around the globe, including European synagogues destroyed by the Nazis or converted to stables and warehouses. Also included are images of cemeteries, tombs, Jewish neighborhoods, and other Jewish sites of interest.
Rabbi William A. Rosenthall's collection of Judaica prints and photographs. These images document the Jewish people: their lives, history, religious ceremonies, dress, and customs. Also included are Jewish New Year cards, caricatures, and clippings from Jewish journals and publications. Rosenthall was the rabbi at Charleston's Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue from 1976 to 1992. He traveled extensively during his life and collected items related to Jewish life and culture.
This scrapbook by William Henry Johnson is part of a collection of three, which document the history of a large array of Lowcountry plantations and places of interest. In this book - compiled, 1928-1932 - Johnson focuses on the Cooper River region and in the Parishes of St Stephen, St James Goose Creek, St James Santee and St. John Berkeley. The scrapbook draws together published historical research, maps, contemporary anecdotes and includes photographs Johnson took while visiting each location.
The postcard collection was started by Bill and Judy Lynch over 30 years ago. Both daughter, Tracie and granddaughter, Halie have been active participants as well. The collection is being shared with the Spartanburg County Public Libraries, to allow anyone with an interest in Spartanburg's history access to these postcard images.
In its entirety the collection has approximately 1,200 postcards. Most of the postcards and the images associated with them were published during the 20th century (1900-1999). A small portion predate that time period.
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Pencil sketches and watercolors by Charleston-born architect William Martin Aiken. Includes images of grand houses (exterior and interior) with architectural details, gates and doors, churches and museums, sailing vessels and flora along the east coast of the United States and Europe.
Early 20th century photographic images from the Woman's College of Due West (SC), including class pictures. In 1904, the Due West Female College (founded in 1859) came under the control of the Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and the school's name was changed to the Woman's College of Due West. There was the same mission to provide young women with equal educational opportunity as young men. The Woman's College co-existed alongside the all-male Erskine College from1904 until 1927, when the two institutions merged to become Erskine College.
In the first part of the 20th century, Greenville South Carolina was home to two colleges for women, Chicora College and the Greenville Woman's College. This collection of materials, which includes yearbooks dating from 1901 to 1930, provides insights into both the everyday life and the academic world of young women of that era.
Samuel Bloom (1895-1976), a first-generation Ukrainian immigrant and recent City College graduate, served as private first class and signaler with Company L, 325th Infantry Battalion, US Army, from October 1917 till July 1919. In April 1918, he went with his company to France, training behind the Somme front, and then going to signal school, before service in the Lorraine count-offensive (July), the St.
This organization consisted of Jewish residents of Charleston who supported the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The organization is known alternately in the minutes as Bnei Zion and the Charleston Zionist Society. The records cover the meetings held from 1917 through the 1940s, and document fundraising efforts on behalf of both international Zionist groups and local Jewish causes such as the Hebrew School. There are members present from all three local congregations, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, Brith Sholom, and Beth Israel, with the latter two predominating.


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Interesting thought, Lyndee. It's also true that beauty is only skin deep, though, unfortunately. Starlings can be beautiful on the outside, but they can be kinda pesky, too. I once read a book about a starling, though -- I think it was called, "Arnie, the Darling Starling," or something like that. It was really touching and made me like the little bird and its antics.
Thanks for stopping by Pat.
So true Lyndee
Thanks pumpkin and pg.
Look at those shiny feathers!
They sparkle in the sun lyndee. Great shot of him/her
Thanks chickie for defining this blackbird for us. Glad you like it.
Nice shot of it and it is a Starling lyndee. It is the only blackbird we have with a yellow beak. I too think they are pretty when the sun hits them just right.
Yes Rose. If we look hard enough, there's usually a beauty in everything.Tex, it's amazing what the sun can do isn't it?
I know what you mean, they're iridescent when the sun hits them and they look blue and green. I remember that song by Ray Stevens, too! Thanks, Lyndee.
Your title reminds me of Mr. Rogers assurance to children, when he'd say, "I like you just the way you are." ; )
Blackbird is what I always call them Floyd. They can be pretty if the sun hits them just right.
Do you know what kind of bird it is? Little bit like a blackbird.


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Make plans to join us September 14 for Hymntime Live. The concert will take place at the Calhoun County Fairgrounds in Marshall, and will run from noon-4pm. There will be a number of local artists who will be performing, including Donna Green, Buddy Houghtaling, and Wasepi Bluegrass Singers. The event will take place rain or shine. So make plans to attend, and invite someone to come with you!
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The Teacherage is nestled between the luscious greenery of the Merchants Millpond State Park and the Great Dismal Swamp National Park in the charming one stop light town of Sunbury, NC. A must stop on your way in or out of the Outer Banks for clean air, canoeing and a simple a taste of country living that is guaranteed to remove even the worse case of city stress. The Teacherage is included in the National Register of Historic Places, originally serving in the 1940's and 50´s as cozy home for the teachers of the "old" Sunbury School. Set on the former school's campus, there are more than 5 acres to spread out on or take a stroll in to the nearby village for groceries or antiques. While our lovely porch makes a perfect spot to enjoy the best apple pie, selection of hot and cold teas or summer lemonade all day long. Choose from double/queen/twin rooms or even single rooms. Stay for a day or stay for ever - breakfast is always ready from 8 to 11 every morning and includes local farm fresh produce.
King size bed with WiFi on the ground floor, shared bathroom, view to the town. Carpet floor. Central heating. Fan. Antiques decor from the area.
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5 on September 28, 2014
Grahm and Brenda were very nice and interesting to talk to. My son and I were bicycle touring and found this place along the route. Excellent price and very comfy room and bed. We had the breakfast in the morning to get us on the road. Would definitely stop there again.
3.6 on August 21, 2013
Basic, no frills B&B with very nice hosts, quiet, no tv, has wifi, breakfast on the porch. Very nice younger couple run this quaint B&B
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Antique Shopping, Gourmet/Fine Dining, Historical interests, National/State parks, Nature area, Ocean, Picnic area, Religious Services, River, Rodeo, Vineyard, Winery
Bed and Breakfast, Other, Historic Inn
Air conditioning, Alarm clock, Amenities Basket, BBQ grill, Ceiling fans, Computer, Conference Rooms, Copier, Fireplace, Library, Parking, Private entrance, TV, Telephone, VCR, Wedding Facilities
In-room internet, Internet Service, Wi-Fi
Bicycle riding trails, Bird watching, Boating, Canoeing, Fishing, Golfing, Hiking trails, Horseback riding, Horseshoes, Hunting, Kayaking, Sailing, Shopping, Sight-seeing, Table Tennis
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Art, Music, Golf, Tango (Watching for now), Reading, History of the area
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Jeffrey Steefel, Executive Producer of LotRO, was interviewed at PAX by TenTonHammer regarding newly announced expansion, Siege of Mirkwood. Watching the full video of the interview yesterday, I picked out that the expansion will add the following end-game instances:
2 x 3-man instances
1 x 6-man instance
1 x 12-man instance (Dol Guldur)
In case you aren't aware, that's exactly the same amount of instance content that was added in Book 8 – a free update, no less. In contrast, Moria launched with 7 x 6-man instances and a lair raid.
So what's the deal? Is this what end-game will look like for several months, at least until Volume 3: Book 1 is released next year?
Well, we need to discard our usual conception of an expansion that invalidates previous end-game content. Siege of Mirkwood includes Book 9, the conclusion to the Volume 2 epic story, and players should progress naturally from Moria content to Mirkwood content. Those interested in raiding aren't going to be able to skip the Moria content, and the reason for that is our old friend radiance. To paraphrase Jeffrey Steefel, Dol Guldur is going to require 'tons and tons of radiance'. If you want to raid Dol Guldur, you're going to need to acquaint/reacquaint yourself with the radiance treadmill.
All isn't all dread and gloom, however. Instead of Moria's 10 levels, the level-cap is only increasing by 5 this time around. This will make Moria's end-game instances significantly easier, but it isn't enough to trivialise them completely. Those that have found one or more of the hard-modes too challenging will now find them much more forgiving. The Watcher will now be manageable by pugs and casual raiders, at least with a bit of persistence. Additionally, the prospective changes to radiance gear bartering should further facilitate acquisition.
In consequence, Dar Narbugud will likely become almost as accessible as The Rift was back in the day, and those extra 5 levels will allow the vast majority of players to make good progress there. In a likely scenario, Dol Guldur might require something like 100 base radiance, and this should now be a pretty realistic goal for those that can raid a couple of nights a week. 3 or 4 pieces of DN +20 gear, the rest +10 or +15 pieces, and the requirement will be met. In the worst case scenario, it might be necessary to obtain a full DN set, but I believe this is extremely unlikely.
So what can we expect from the new instances?
Jeffrey Steefel demonstrates a little of the Dol Guldur instance during the interview. He mentions that it is a multi-boss raid, and going by former precedent, we might assume this means it will include 6 bosses – enough to provide barter items for a full armour set. Dol Guldur, being a former stronghold of Sauron with a rich history in the lore, certainly deserves an epic instance of this magnitude.
On the other hand, multi-boss raids take a considerable chunk of development time to put together, and Dar Narbugud was only released a couple of months ago. Have Turbine had enough time to produce another substantial 6-boss raid instance so soon? Isn't it more likely that the raid will only include 2 or 3 bosses? Without any other information to go on, and since Dar Narbugud was originally scheduled for Book 7, I'm going to assume that Dol Guldur has been in development for quite a while, and will indeed be a full multi-boss raid.
The other new instances we know even less about, but it would probably be safe to assume that they share a little in common with the similar 'cluster' added in Book 8. That is, the 3-mans will be interesting and challenging, probably designed to take about 30-60 minutes, and the 6-man will take about an hour and contain a few challenging bosses. I'd love to see a huge Carn-Dum like affair for the 6-man, but alas, I think it unlikely.
Loot wise, I wouldn't be surprised if these instances provided (via bartering) +15 radiance pieces to complement those obtained from the Book 8 cluster, cumulating in 90 radiance for a full set. This would sound the death knell for the original Moria 6-mans, however, so we'll see.


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This is what happens when you grow up on electronic music from birth. The mathematically calculated beats flow in your veins, the distorted bass becomes your second identity, and the beautiful digital melodies start to feel like your soul. Nothing new to L3x, because it is about him.
L3x (read as Lex), also known as Alexey Kishko, has been listening to electronic music pioneers of 90s on cassette tapes since he could speak (which he needed to exchange mixtapes with peers). Breakbeat and what was dubbed « rave » at the time became the best friends of L3x, and music has been devotedly escorting him through life. At 11 he finished music school with excellence, and already at 14 he didn't miss a single important club event at his hometown.
From dancefloor to decks – 2006 was the year L3x' musical nature materialized in DJing. Rapidly gaining experience and popularity while experimenting with music styles, Alexey clearly defined Breaks and Dubstep as his genres of choice. He has played literally every venue in the town and no big event with a broken beat theme would happen without L3x' performance. His mixes have been played on numerous European, American and Russian radios (both FM and Internet), and developing the DJ skills led him to becoming a teacher of a DJing course at Kaliningrad's XSSR Music Academy (founded by a recognized breaks and dubstep producer Mars). L3x is a resident and organizer of a regular dubstep events « XSSR Nights » and "Drop the Bass".
Never going to content himself with DJing, L3x began mastering the production skills. 2011 saw L3x signing his first contracts with prominent dubstep labels, and in Autumn his remix of Nick Carter's « Love Can't Wait » won Listener's Award in a contest by Indaba Music. 2012 will be big for L3x, who is working on new tunes, unexpected collabs and sick DJ sets. Labels: Bass Reflections, Play Nasty, Subtribe and etc.


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Bill Whitford (Emeritus Professor of Law, The University of Wisconsin Law School) has written extensively on contract law, consumer protection, and bankruptcy.
In advance of its 2014 Symposium—to be held in his honor on October 24—Temple Law Review has compiled many of Professor Whitford's significant contributions to legal scholarship.
Please explore the extensive—albeit non-exhaustive—list of Professor Whitford's writings below. It is organized by category [Corporate Reorganization, Consumer Transactions (including Bankruptcy), Contracts, Other]. *Note: some articles are listed under more than one topic.
Professor Whitford is well known for this series of early-1990s articles on corporate bankruptcy reorganization.
However, he has also written about other issues in corporate reorganization.
This event marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Harold E. Kohn, an eminent member of the Philadelphia bar and supporter of Temple Law. The lecture is sponsored by Kohn's eponymous chaired professorship, which is jointly endowed by the Barrack Foundation and the Kohn Foundation.
Chief Justice Strine is among the nation's preeminent jurists, widely recognized as a leading authority on matters of corporate law as well as larger questions of governance in complex environments.
Before becoming the Chief Justice, Strine served on the Delaware Court of Chancery as Chancellor and Vice Chancellor. He holds adjunct teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, and UCLA Schools of Law, where he teaches various classes in corporate law. He is also Senior Fellow of the Harvard Program on Corporate Governance, as well as the Austin Wakeman Scott Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School. Chief Justice Strine has served as the special judicial consultant to the ABA's Committee on Corporate Laws since 2006.
An engaging, insightful, and sometimes provocative speaker, Chief Justice Strine does not shy from controversy. Temple Law School is honored to host the Chief Justice as the first speaker in this occasional series.
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Dr. Ofshe began by referencing the lyrics of Bob Dylan to describe how he views the changes currently taking place in the field of interrogations: "there's a battle outside and it is ragin', it'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, for the times they are a-changin." When he began his research around 1985, Dr. Ofshe noted that Alaska was the only state that recorded police interrogations. Today, however, sixteen states, the District of Columbia, and approximately 640 separate police agencies require the recording of interrogations. He believes that these changes will eventually allow appellate courts to actually look at what goes on in interrogations and make the kinds of decisions that judges—removed far enough from the politics of day-to-day trials—must make as part of their principal responsibility to law and justice.
Dr. Ofshe had not considered how important the study of interrogations was until he was asked to be an expert witness in a criminal case nearly twenty-five years ago. After spending nearly 300 hours learning about interrogations in preparation for the trial, he realized that interrogation methods had evolved in darkness since the development of the widely-used third-degree method; police had been able to keep what happened in the interrogation room a "dirty little secret" for the greater part of the twentieth century. This experience led him to devote his time to studying cases involving innocent people who had been coerced into false confessions.
Dr. Ofshe described how in the early days of his research, he developed procedures and methods for de-briefing people who had undergone interrogations that were not recorded. After listening to their accounts, he would make a request to interview the interrogator, which was routinely denied, and then try to deconstruct the record. Now that most of the interrogations that he sees are recorded, he is able to better dissect the interrogation.
These early efforts led him to publish the paper, "The Decision to Confess Falsely: Rational Choice and Irrational Action," with Professor Richard Leo in 1997. Based on their empirical observations of transcripts of interrogations they had been collecting for years, they identified two essential steps followed in interrogations. The first step involved convincing the suspect that his or her situation was hopeless by using "evidence ploys." In the second step, the interrogator shifted their focus towards encouraging the suspect to confess. They used a variety of tactics, ranging from the unobjectionable to clearly suppressive.
Dr. Ofshe stressed that it is difficult to detect coercion in an interrogation, even for judges. One of his goals has been to present judges with tools so they can better understand what exactly happened in the interrogation. Dr. Ofshe discussed recent cases that show the promise of positive change in this area. He argued that these cases demonstrate how appellate courts are getting the records of interrogations and analyzing them in the same way he would analyze them, often finding techniques advocated by Reid & Associates to be coercive. Dr. Ofshe specifically mentioned a 2003 California case, a 2011 Florida case, and a 2012 Massachusetts case (Commonwealth v. Baye, 462 Mass. 246 (2012)) in which the courts suggested that it was coercion for interrogators to communicate a promise and force suspects to choose between two options that ultimately diminish the suspect's free will.
To illustrate his points, Dr. Ofshe explained how cases involving the deaths of babies allegedly shaken to death often result in false confessions. He focused on the ongoing case involving Adrian Thomas in New York and showed footage of his actual interrogation from the soon-to-be-released documentary Scenes of a Crime. In his closing, Dr. Ofshe re-emphasized how critical it is that video recording be utilized in police interrogations if we want to reform the system.
Erica H. Dressler
Temple University School of Law, J.D. Candidate 2014
Professor Redlich focused on how false confessions ultimately lead to convictions. She argued that police documentation is specifically designed to elicit confessions and that courts frequently rely on this documentation in determining whether a confession is admissible at trial. Redlich concluded that courts should not rely on this documentation in gauging the voluntariness of a confession, since police interrogation techniques are psychologically deceptive and focused solely upon gaining a confession.
Jim Trainum, who currently consults on both open cases and alleged wrongful conviction cases, became interested in the topic of false confessions as a result of obtaining one himself in 1994. Trainum discussed whether law enforcement has adequately responded to the large number of false confessions uncovered in recent years. He concluded that, while interrogation training now acknowledges the issue of false confessions, a disconnect remains between interrogation training and the techniques and tactics of the interrogator.
Professor Epstein talked about what the U.S. could learn from how other countries deal with the issue of false confessions. He argued that the criminal law and procedure systems of the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands have instituted safeguards that protect against obtaining false confessions without lowering conviction rates. Epstein concluded that the U.S. system should adopt certain aspects of these international approaches, in which the interrogation focuses on the investigation rather than the acquisition of a confession.
Bradley Cohen
Temple University School of Law, J.D. Candidate 2014
In 1985, Halsey was questioned about the murder of his girlfriend's two young children, with whom he lived. During the interrogation, investigators created a statement—while being watched by one of the prosecutors—which falsely described Halsey's involvement. Halsey remembered feeling like he was being asked the same questions over and over again. After thirty hours of interrogation, Halsey had become tired and scared. He signed the statement confessing to the murders, believing he would "fight another day."
The statement was used as the key evidence against Halsey in the murder trial leading to his conviction. Several witnesses also testified against him, indicating his involvement. At the advice of his counsel, Halsey did not testify in his defense.
After his conviction, Halsey had to write "thousands" of letters just to find someone to advocate on his behalf. The Innocence Project eventually took his case. In 2006, DNA testing proved that Halsey was innocent and that Clifton Hall, who had testified against Mr. Halsey at trial, was the actual murderer. Halsey remained in prison until July of 2007, when he was finally declared innocent and released.
Because he is currently involved in a civil suit, Halsey could not discuss particular details about his experience but stressed that he did not believe the system itself was flawed. Instead, he believed that its rules were poorly executed by the people in it. He urged the audience to be critical if ever faced with a similar situation and to "ask questions."
Whitney West Robson
Temple University School of Law, J.D. Candidate 2013
Edward Ohlbaum, a law professor at Temple since 1985 and current Director of its Trial Advocacy program, began the discussion by sharing a story from when he served as a public defender in 1979. The defendant had confessed to a robbery because he failed a polygraph test. It appeared to be an open and shut case. Later, however, the public defender discovered that the test had been administered at a particular police station in West Philadelphia which did not typically administer polygraph tests. While at a cocktail party four weeks after the trial, the public defender learned from a detective that the defendant had actually been "hooked-up" to a Xerox machine in the station. Whenever the defendant answered a question, a piece of paper was produced by the machine that said "You lied."
Professor Ohlbaum then asked whether the police tactics used in his story constituted police coercion. Deception, according to Ohlbaum, is used to convince the suspect of something that is completely illogical. By definition, it exists when investigators try to convince the suspect that it is in his or her own best interest to confess. Thus, the whole goal of interrogation—to convince the suspect that the consequences of confession outweigh or are more desirable than denial of involvement in the crime—is a big lie. Courts have held that police officers have the right to lie to suspects by making assertions about false evidence. Where the line has been drawn, however, is with the fabrication of actual evidence (lab reports, for example).
Ohlbaum then posed two questions to the panel. First, would it be appropriate for an investigator to feed the suspect bad facts? Sharing false information with the suspect would not necessarily contaminate the interrogation. However, if the suspect were to agree with numerous bad facts, it would suggest that the suspect is a compliant confessor, rather than a guilty one.
Second, Ohlbaum asked the panel, when the videotaping of conversations with suspects should begin—from the moment the suspect walks into the station or after the initial interview? Ohlbaum concluded his presentation by arguing that the reasons why an innocent person would confess to a crime are outside the realm of knowledge of a layperson. Therefore, he argued, that it might be time to open the door to experts to testify in order to help the jury determine whether or not a person's confession is legitimate or if it was coerced.
Joseph P. Buckley III continued the panel's discussion. Buckley is the President of John E. Reid and Associates in Chicago, Illinois and has co-authored three books, including Essentials of The Reid Technique. He argued that lying alone to suspects is not the problem. Rather it is when the lie is accompanied by other objectionable behavior during the interrogation that the interrogation becomes coercive. Therefore, he argued, an interrogation was probably reasonable if the only issue is that the investigator lied.
Although Buckley did not view lying as the problem, he did argue that investigators should only lie to suspects as a last ditch effort. If investigators lie to the suspect too early in their interrogation, according to Buckley, they run the risk that the suspect will know that the investigators are lying. This could cause the investigators to lose all credibility.
Buckley also argued that, although lying is permissible under numerous decisions of various courts, it may not always be appropriate. Therefore, the investigator must exercise judgment in utilizing a lie during an interrogation. For example, false information should not be used in an interrogation of a suspect who acknowledges that he may have committed the crime, even though he has no specific recollection of doing so. According to Buckley, the interrogator's job is to convince the suspect to tell the truth, not to get him or her to confess. Furthermore, the use of a lie, although permitted by the courts in such a situation, may only serve to confuse the witness about his or her real involvement.
The panel's discussion continued with Professor Louis Natali's overview and critique of the Reid Technique. Prior to joining Temple, Professor Natali was First Assistant Defender at the Philadelphia Defender's Association. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project.
Natali began by asking why deception is used if it is not to gain an advantage in the interrogation process. He then evaluated the behavior analysis interview strategy used in police interviews. He noted that the reasoning behind this strategy has never been subjected to peer review. Thus, it is unclear how reliable the strategy is and what its rate of error is.
He further argued that as a society we have decided that lying is inherently bad. As a result, many professions are explicitly prohibited from lying. For example, stockbrokers and real estate agents face discipline if they were to lie during the course of professional affairs. Nonetheless, we have allowed our police officers to lie to suspects in order to obtain the truth. In addition, Natali argued that there is insufficient evidence to show that treating suspects hospitably would not provide the same outcomes as lying to them does.
Professor Natali ended his presentation by discussing the Reid Technique and playing a video of its use during the interrogation of Michael Crowe, who was falsely charged with killing his sister. Initially developed as an anecdote to the third-degree method, the Reid Technique uses questions that are meant to invoke stress in the suspect. Thus, according to Professor Natali, the answers to the questions are not as important as the body language they invoke. Even though the method is not supposed to be used on children, it was used in the case of Michael Crowe, who was 14 at the time. After questioning, Crowe eventually confessed to the killing of his sister, implicating one of his friends as a co-conspirator. After both Crowe and his friend were charged with the victim's murder, a drifter confessed that he had killed the young woman shortly before their trial. Thus, Natali argued, that the Reid Technique is frequently misused to obtain false confessions.
Emilia McKee
Temple University School of Law, J.D. Candidate 2014
Supplemental Materials on the Use of Deception in Interrogation (pdf)
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The first speaker was Professor Leo, who discussed the case of Bruce Godschalk as an example of a false confession. Godschalk was convicted of two rapes in the 1980s, due in large part to a very detailed confession he provided to police. He was exonerated and released in early 2000, clearly showing his confession was false. Professor Leo described the many ways the police, media, witnesses, and gossip can contaminate a confession like Godschalk's. The police, out of frustration, can sometimes feed facts to suspects through leading questions, which Godschalk's attorney argued was the case.
In dealing with the issue of contamination, Professor Leo remarked that contamination is widespread in confessions and often difficult to detect because recording interrogations is not yet a widespread practice. Adding to the difficulty of detecting contaminated confessions, the false confessions themselves are often "complete confessions"—meaning, they contain both the "I did it" statement along with a narrative, motives, explanations, some remorse, and non-public crime facts. Leo explained that complete confessions were commonplace in twenty Innocence Project statements he examined.
Leo offered suggestions on how to prevent contaminated confessions in the first place and then how to prevent them from making their way into trial. First, he suggested that police hold back most, if not all, non-public details about a crime so during an interrogation police can compare the veracity of a suspect's confession to the details of a crime. Second, he recommended that police record all interrogations and confessions. Finally, judges during pre-trial hearings should examine confessions and suppress ones that are contaminated.
Professor Drizen then went into detail about how confessions are contaminated and how this contamination can be identified pre-trial. He covered the same sources of contamination as Professor Leo but also included the technique of showing the suspect the crime scene. Drizen also explained how innocent knowledge on the part of the suspect can find its way into a confession. He provided another example of a false confession in the case of Steven Avery. Avery was convicted of raping and killing a young woman after his nephew Brendan Dassey provided a confession that incriminated himself and his uncle. Before Dassey's questioning, the interrogators knew three key pieces of non-public details that Dassey would need to corroborate. The police videotaped his confession, and Drizen pointed out that the interrogators provided Dassey with the non-public details of the crime through leading questions. Drizen explained that the confession that Dassey eventually gave contained nineteen key crime facts that could all be linked to the media, gossip, and the leading questions.
Professor Drizen provided ways to challenge unreliable confessions. First, attorneys should locate the source of the contamination through police reports and the media coverage of the crime. Second, attorneys should apply the "fit" test to the confession, which is roughly defined as the degree to which the suspect's narrative matches the provably true facts of the crime. Drizen suggested applying this test by examining what details the suspect knew that were non-public and what new information the suspect was able to provide. Finally, Drizen suggested charting the contamination by examining each fact and the possible sources of contamination. He briefly discussed the ways in which these issues can be raised pre-trial. Drizen suggested filing motions to suppress the confessions on voluntariness grounds, arguing that contamination is a form of coercion.
The final speaker of the panel, Peter Neufeld, discussed the ways in which an attorney can raise the question of a confession's reliability before trial. Neufeld explained that as gatekeepers of reliability, judges could suppress contaminated confessions because the prejudicial value outweighs the probative value under Federal Rule of Evidence (FRE) 403. Neufeld found that the reliability of in or out of court identification has come under scientific scrutiny after the New Jersey Supreme Court in State v. Larry Henderson, 208 N.J. 208 (2011), changed the rules for admitting eyewitness identifications in criminal trials. The court in Henderson found that the reliability of these identifications under the test set out in Manson v. Brathwaite, 432 U.S. 98 (1977), did not stand up to scientific evidence, showing that the reliability of these identifications was based on the circumstances of the identification. The new rule in Henderson requires the judge to caution a jury that the identification may be less reliable depending on the circumstances of the identification, including the witness's state of mind and police practice. Neufeld explained that scientific scrutiny should also come into play regarding the reliability of confessions. He also argued that judges should act as gatekeepers with regards to forensic science.
Neufeld rebutted the primary objection by prosecutors that, if judges can assess reliability of a confession pre-trial, guilty people will run free. He identified similar arguments in response to prohibiting the third degree in the 1920s and 1930s and in the 1990s when videotaping confessions was first suggested. He found that the number of confessions has not increased or decreased as a result of videotaping confessions and predicted that the same will be true if judges assess the reliability of confessions pre-trial.
Judge Van Antwerpen, the panel moderator, agreed with the panelists that police should record interrogations and confessions. He disagreed, however, with requiring that all police interviews and interrogations be videotaped due to administrative concerns. He also disagreed that the use of FRE 403 was the proper rule to determine the reliability of confessions but suggested creating a new rule more in line with FRE 609 might be appropriate.
Alexandra Lastowski
Temple University School of Law, J.D. Candidate 2014
Dr. Kassin began by describing the tremendous evidentiary power that confessions have. He recounted several cases in which the respective suspects confessed to committing rape, though DNA testing subsequently eliminated them as viable suspects. Presumably, such exculpatory evidence would lead prosecutors to drop the charges, but Dr. Kassin noted that the prosecutors nonetheless pursued some of these cases on the notion that the confessions were still indicative of guilt. In one case, for example, a father confessed to raping and murdering his young child. Even though DNA evidence implicated another person, the state nonetheless charged him under the theory that he let the true perpetrator into his house in order to commit the crime.
Dr. Kassin touched on how often false confessions occur. Based on his research, he noted that 37 percent of those exonerated by DNA evidence over the past five years involved a false confession. Dr. Kassin also stressed that, while false confessions are most visible in cases that involve DNA exonerees, they occur in military and corporate settings. For example, an employee of Autozone confessed to stealing $800 from the company. After the employee paid restitution and was ultimately fired, the company discovered that a clerical error was responsible for the missing funds.
Dr. Kassin moved on to explain the reasons why innocent people make confessions. He identified three separate situations where this seemingly counterintuitive action occurs. First, innocent confessors are often "vulnerable," that is, unable to understand the consequences of giving a confession. These include adolescents, mentally ill persons, those who are compliant or suggestible, and those who are in a state of grief or shock. Second, situational factors, such as the length and manner of the interrogation, can cause innocent people to confess. Third, Dr. Kassin observed that the "phenomenology of the innocent," or one's belief in his own innocence, leads to false confessions. As a result, those who believe they are innocent are more likely to waive their Miranda rights, respond to police questioning, supply alibis, and take polygraph tests.
Next, Dr. Kassin discussed how, in many cases, confessions trump innocence. As an example, he cited a clinical study where mock juries considered varying types of confessions. This study found that the juries were as likely to convict a person who had confessed, regardless of the extent to which the confession was coerced or the reliability of the person to whom the confession was made (e.g., one made to a jail-house snitch as opposed to a police detective).
He then offered three theories on why confessions have such a powerful influence on the determination of guilt. First, it is commonsense that a person would not confess to crime unless he was actually guilty. Not only does this theory have logical appeal, it is also bolstered by two principles of psychology—that people have an inclination to believe what they hear and particularly when the statements are against one's self-interest. Dr. Kassin also found that people tend to consider these statements in a vacuum, without considering the pressure or coercion that the confessor experienced at the time of the statement.
Second, false confessions gain evidentiary strength when the confessor corroborates his inculpatory statement with facts that are consistent with the crime. Sometimes, however, these facts are suggested, or even supplied, by the interrogator—a practice sometimes termed "contamination." Third, Dr. Kassin found that false confessions have the tendency to make external evidence more reliable.
Dr. Kassin concluded his remarks with suggested policy reforms. These included video recording police interrogations, altering police interrogation practices, subjecting confessions to pretrial reliability hearings, and amending exoneree-compensation statutes.
Francis Weber
Temple University School of Law, J.D. Candidate 2014
Stories exactly like this one prompted Congress to reform relief from joint and several liability for "innocent spouses." The legislative history of innocent spouse relief reveals that Congress specifically intended the relief to benefit divorced or widowed women who were subject to unbearable tax debts resulting from the actions of their husbands. However, in its zeal to help women, Congress, in writing the statute, and the courts in enforcing Congress' action, have forced women into a corner from which they cannot retreat. To be granted relief under the innocent spouse rules, women have to show a degrading level of helplessness or a severe level of abuse. The result is that the innocent spouse rules wind up reinforcing the stereotype of a financially inept wife, totally dependent on her husband.
I. The Development of Innocent Spouse Relief
A. Joint and Several Liability
Congress first gave married couples the option of filing joint returns in 1918.[1] It was the intent of the Bureau of Internal Revenue that such joint filers would be held joint and severally liable, as it explained in 1923: "[A] single joint return is one return of a taxable unit and not two returns of two units on one sheet of paper."[2] By 1938, Congress had imposed joint and several liability through statute.[3] Joint and several liability for joint filers remains in effect today,[4] which means that both spouses are individually liable for tax deficiencies arising from the return, whether or not they earned the income.
Perhaps recognizing the tension between joint and several liability and basic assignment of income principles central to our tax system, Congress crafted a joint and several liability escape clause. A demonstration that the return was signed under duress will relieve a taxpayer from joint and several liability. The taxpayer must show that (1) she was unable to resist demands to sign the return and (2) that she would not have signed the return except for the constraint applied her will.[5] Because of the difficulty in proving duress, the strictness of the joint and several liability can produce overly harsh results. In a string of embezzlement cases, courts held wives liable for unreported income from their husband's embezzled funds for failure to prove duress,[6] a result that, in one such case, even ended with the Tax Court being "appalled."[7]
By the late nineties, partly in response to lobbying from the American Bar Association, Congress endeavored to study the joint and several liability relief provision, § 6013(e), to determine whether it provided "meaningful relief in all cases where such relief is appropriate."[8] Congress eventually decided that § 6013(e) did not afford meaningful relief; the former innocent spouse statute was repealed and Congress enacted § 6015 in its place.
B. Current Innocent Spouse Provision 26 U.S.C. § 6015
As currently enacted, the innocent spouse provision, contained in § 6015 of the Code, includes three main avenues for relief: (1) § 6015(b) provides relief for "all joint filers," (2) § 6015(c) provides relief for divorced or separated taxpayers, and (3) § 6015(f) provides general equitable relief.
Under § 6015(b), a taxpayer can gain relief from joint and several liability where the taxpayer establishes that the joint return includes an understatement of tax attributable to erroneous items of the other spouse; that she did not know, and had no reason to know of the understatement when she signed the return; and that it is inequitable to hold the taxpayer liable in light of all the facts and circumstances. One of the major changes in § 6015(b) is that the understatement no longer needs to be "substantial."
Under § 6015(c), relief for a taxpayer who is divorced or separated requires that the taxpayer had no actual knowledge of the deficiency, a less stringent standard than required under § 6015(b). Even where the taxpayer did have actual knowledge of the deficiency, under § 6015(c), the taxpayer can still get relief if she shows the return was filed under duress.
Section 6015(f) requires that relief is otherwise unavailable under §§ 6015(b) or (c), and that in light of all the facts and circumstances, it is generally inequitable to hold the taxpayer liable. Importantly, § 6015(f) is the only section that provides relief for an underpayment of correctly reported tax, as opposed to an understatement of tax.
A taxpayer seeking innocent spouse relief must first petition the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Where the IRS denies relief or does not respond within six months, the taxpayer may petition the Tax Court for review of the determination. Tax Court review is de novo.
II. Innocent Spouse Relief Perpetuates Stereotypical Roles For Women
A. Congress's "White Knight" Intent
The legislative history of § 6015 reveals that in enacting the provision, Congress specifically intended to help rescue victimized women from pursuit by the IRS. In a daylong hearing on innocent spouse relief, Congress heard from four witnesses, all of whom were divorced women. Senator William Roth, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, introduced the witnesses: "Most often, the innocent spouse is a former wife, a woman who knew little, if anything, about her husband's financial dealings, his business concerns, let alone his debt with the IRS."[9] Senator Roth framed the issue in terms of the need to protect women who cannot be expected to know about complicated matters such as finance and business, let alone taxes. Senator Roth painted the "long-suffering, courageous" witnesses as women who each had a sympathetic tale to tell of her nefarious ex-husband and the tax burden he left for her to bear.
The first witness, Elizabeth Cockrell, described herself as "a young Canadian immigrant wife who trusted her experienced American commodity-broker husband." Ms. Cockrell explained that she was only guilty of trusting her husband, and in return she was hounded for over $600,000. The second witness was an immigrant from Yugoslavia who married an American at age twenty-five. She explained that she relied on her husband to do the "correct thing" because she was unfamiliar with the American tax system. After her divorce, she was on the hook for $200,000 in back taxes. Because declaring bankruptcy was against her principles, she stopped working altogether on the advice of her lawyer to make her innocent spouse petition more sympathetic. The third witness, Karen Andreasen, explained that she was "excluded from our financial dealings" because she was "busy taking care of our children." Finally, Josephine Berman, the last witness, explained that she was being held responsible for disallowed deductions her husband claimed. After Ms. Berman walked through the substance of the deductions, arising out of her husband's fifty percent ownership in a Subchapter S corporation, she confessed that she was "not entirely sure what this means" because she "was the homemaker and [her husband] was the breadwinner." She was liable for over $400,000.
Each of these women was presented as completely dependent on her husband, which is perhaps what made their stories even more compelling. Following the witnesses' testimony, Senator John Chafee remarked that the point of this reform was to tell the IRS to "stop harassing these women." The dominant representation of a helpless woman seemed to inform Congress's intent in passing the new law. In fact, the only reference to a husband victim was made in an effort to offer a point of contrast. It is clear from the legislative history that Congress had a specific taxpayer in mind when it eventually repealed § 6013(e) and enacted the new § 6015: the innocent ex-wife.
B. The Structure of Section 6015 Reflects Congress's Intent
Because the language of § 6015 is gender-neutral, the statute itself is less obviously informed by preconceived notions about a woman's role in financial affairs. However, closer inspection of the structure of the statute reveals that the requirements for relief favor disenfranchised ex-wives.
The main requirement of § 6015(b) is that the taxpayer did not know or did not have reason to know of the deficiency. This requirement encourages ignorance on the part of the petitioning spouse. The less a petitioning spouse knows about the finances, the better chance that spouse has in gaining relief. Courts have looked at a spouse's level of education in evaluating whether she had "reason to know" of the deficiency.[10] The more educated a spouse is, the more likely the court is to deny relief on the grounds that the spouse had reason to know of the deficiency. Similarly, where a wife participates in family finances, she will almost always be deemed to have reason to know of the deficiency.
Section 6015(c) is set out to apply specifically to divorced or separated taxpayers. Actual knowledge is a subjective inquiry: Did this taxpayer know about the deficiency? Under § 6015(b), the knowledge requirement is framed as either subjective or objective: Did the taxpayer know, or have reason to know, about the deficiency? Further, unlike § 6015(b) for divorced taxpayers, the burden of proof in § 6015(c) is on the IRS to show that the taxpayer had knowledge of the deficiency. The application of the actual knowledge standard only to § 6015(c) has the effect of encouraging a taxpayer to divorce her spouse in order to have a better chance of obtaining relief.
C. Judicial Decisions Favor Women in Stereotypical Roles
Innocent spouse relief is one of the top-ten most litigated issues for the IRS.[11] In the period since Congress enacted § 6015, eighty-five percent of taxpayers seeking relief were women.[12] The decisions of the courts hearing these cases demonstrate a bias towards granting relief to more dependent women. Statistics show that eighty-eight percent of spouses who were granted relief by the courts were separated, divorced, or widowed at the time of trial.[13] What is more interesting to note however, is that eighty-one percent of spouses granted relief were married at the time of filing the petition.[14] The interplay of these statistics suggests that courts actually grant relief more frequently to spouses who become divorced. A spouse is also better off being less educated. Relief was denied in seventy-five percent of the cases where the court found that the requesting spouse was well or highly educated.[15] A spouse's position as the primary income earner is also a factor; however, the statistics demonstrate that courts treat this factor differently in relation to women than they do men. In cases where the husband requested relief and the wife was the primary earner, the husband never won relief; however, in cases where the wife requested relief and the husband was the primary earner, the wife won relief fifty percent of the time.[16] Courts seem to find that husbands who are not responsible for earning most of the money for the family should still be held responsible for tax deficiencies, but the same cannot be expected of women. In cases where the petitioning spouse did not work outside the home and did not handle family finances, the petitioning spouse won 68.8 percent of the time.[17]
Particularly alarming is courts' treatment of issues of abuse. Generally, because neither the statute nor the Treasury Regulations define abuse, courts require proof of severe levels of abuse before allowing that factor to weigh in the petitioning spouse's favor, requiring specific details of abuse, and preferably police reports. In sixty percent of cases where abuse is alleged, judges refused to find abuse.[18] Judges appear hesitant to find abuse out of fear that claims of abuse are exaggerated to avoid liability because of the "obvious incentive to vilify the non-requesting spouse."[19]
As is demonstrated through the case statistics, courts generally seem to exercise Congress's intent through granting or denying innocent spouse relief. The success or failure of petitions based on certain conceptions about women also has the effect of coloring the legal strategy petitioners employ, and this in turn may force women to adopt a certain role in order to gain relief from the courts.
D. Innocent Spouse Rules Reinforce Stereotypes by Affecting How Women View Themselves
The representation of women that lurks behind the innocent spouse rules may even affect the way women view themselves. As one scholar explains:
[T]he innocent spouse provision. . . may further impact women's choices as to the role they will play in society. In order to find reprieve from joint and several liability, many women will need to establish that they are victims—and in doing so, they will convince themselves that they are victims. . . [this] can be emotionally crippling for many women who discover too late that they are financially dependent on their husbands because of the unfortunate choices they made—choices shaped largely by our tax laws.[20]
An interesting case in point is Carol Ross Joynt, the television producer from Washington, D.C., who wrote the book "Innocent Spouse: A Memoir" and landed a feature in Vogue magazine after she successfully petitioned the court for innocent spouse relief when her wealthy husband died and left her with a $3 million tax bill.[21]
Carol Ross Joynt seemed, on the surface, to be the antithesis of the Betty Homemaker wife: she had an education, enjoyed a good job at CNN, kept her own checking account and credit cards, and even had an Emmy award. She was the modern, sophisticated woman. That is, until she was on the hook for her late husband's tax fraud.
Ms. Ross Joynt retained Sheldon Cohen, the former IRS Commissioner who had written the innocent spouse Code provision, to represent her interests. Cohen and his partner, Miriam Fisher, prepared a report in her defense. The report was littered with statements that reflected the bias inherent in the innocent spouse provision. One passage in the defense report read, "Throughout her adult life, Carol steadfastly avoided getting involved in financial matters because she knew they were complex and she did not understand them." Another passage insisted dramatically, "She fell in love with Howard and believed he would be able to take care of her and would never let anything happen to her. That was her Faustian pact."
Ms. Ross Joynt said of the report: "I wasn't proud of what the report said about me, but not because the facts were wrong. They were right. . . When the report didn't make me feel like a fool, it made me feel like a concubine. . . There it was, the truth, I was unable to speak. . . I was a good wife, homemaker and mother. . . I didn't ask questions. I didn't insist on answers. I didn't want to know. It never occurred to me there was a problem, even though, in Howard's last year of life, so many signs were in plain view, not the least of them his offhand mention of an audit, his frequent appointments with lawyers, and his more than occasional fitful nights."
This was a woman who won her Emmy interviewing Charles Manson, but she never thought to ask her husband: Honey, why are we being audited by the IRS? Ms. Ross Joynt acknowledged that in the end, it was the demeaning defense report that won her the case.
Ms. Ross Joynt's situation poses the eternal question, one that the Washington Post poignantly asked in its review of her book: "Why do allegedly smart women who competently manage their money when single blithely cede financial control the men they marry?"[22] The answer appears to be, at least in the context of an "innocent spouse," they have to—it is the only way to convince the IRS and the courts to grant relief.
The legislative history of innocent spouse provisions reveals that Congress specifically had in mind divorced and victimized women when it wrote the new § 6015. The structure of the statute and the factors interpreting it afford easier relief for women who are divorced, less educated, burdened, or abused. As the case statistics demonstrate, almost all innocent spouse cases are brought by women, and the most successful petitioners are divorced, less educated, secondary income earner and ignorant of financial affairs. The tax laws relating to innocent spouse as enacted and enforced augment the misconception of married women as subordinate to their husbands by forcing women to adopt a dependent role in order to gain relief from joint and several liability. And that is putting Baby in the corner.
Elizabeth K. Blenner
J.D., Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, 2012
[1] Revenue Act of 1918, Pub. L. No. 254, ch. 18, § 223, 40 Stat. 1057, 1074 (1919).
[2] Stephanie Hunter McMahon, An Empirical Study of Innocent Spouse Relief: Do Courts Implement Congress's Legislative Intent?, 11 Fla. Tax Rev. (forthcoming 2012) (manuscript at *5) (citing I.T. 1575, II-2 C.B. 144 (1923)).
[3] Revenue Act of 1938, Pub. L. No. 75-554, §51(b), 52 Stat. 447, 476 (1938).
[4] 26 U.S.C. § 6013(d)(3).
[5] Brown v. Commissioner, 51 T.C. Memo 116, 119 (1968).
[6] See, e.g., Horn v. Commissioner, 387 F.2d 621, 622 (5th Cir. 1967); Davenport v. Commissioner, 48 T.C. 921, 927 (1967).
[7] See Scudder v. Commissioner, 48 T.C. 36, 41 (1967) (remarking that "only remedial legislation can soften the impact of the rule of strict individual liability.").
[8] Stephanie Hunter McMahon, An Empirical Study of Innocent Spouse Relief: Do Courts Implement Congress' s Legislative Intent?, 11 Fla. Tax Rev. (forthcoming 2012) (manuscript at *8).
[9] Senate Committee on Finance, Unofficial Transcript of Finance Hearing on Innocent Spouse Tax Rules, 98 TNT 32-23 (1998).
[10] Stephen A Zorn, Innocent Spouses, Reasonable Women and Divorce: The Gap Between Reality and the Internal Revenue Code, 3 Mich. J. Gender & L. 421, 450 (1996).
[11] National Taxpayer Advocate's 2010 Annual Report to Congress, Section 3.
[12] McMahon, supra note 8, at *24.
[13] Id. at *26.
[14] Id.
[15] Id. at *27.
[16] Id. at *28.
[17] Id. at *37.
[18] Id. at *49.
[19] Nishiser v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2008-135.
[20] Kari Smoker, Internal Revenue Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998: Expanded Relief for Innocent Spouses—At What Cost? A Feminist Perspective, 60 Ohio St. L.J. 2045, 2088 (1999).
[21] "Carol Ross Joynt: Debt Becomes Her," Vogue Magazine, May 10, 2011 available at: http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/carol-ross-joynt-debt-becomes-her/.
[22] Annie Groer, "Carol Ross Joynt's memoir 'Innocent Spouse,'" Washington Post, May 6, 2011, available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/carol-ross-joyns-memoir-innocent-spouse/2011/05/02/AFHL1rAG_story.html.
The editors and staff of the Temple Law Review wish to recognize the tremendous accomplishments of the committee members, including Chair Peter J. Liacouras (former Dean of Temple Law School and President of Temple University) and Legal Advisor Robert Reinstein (also former Dean of and current professor at Temple Law School).
In honor of the award, we have reposted the Liacouras Committee Report and Recommendations, originally published in the forty-fourth volume of the Temple Law Review (then Temple Law Quarterly). Below are Professor Reinstein's remarks on accepting the award, and a fuller history to the important role the Liacouras Committee played in integrating the Pennsylvania Bar.
-The Editors
Remarks of Professor Robert Reinstein on Receiving
The Justice Sonia Sotomayor Diversity Award on Behalf of the
Liacouras Commission
On behalf of the Liacouras Commission, I am honored to accept this wonderful award and thank the Bar Association not only for the award but also for the role that it played in creating and supporting the work of the Commission.
In 1970, I was in my second year of teaching at Temple Law School when a colleague, Professor Peter Liacouras, asked me to help a commission he chaired looking into whether there was racial discrimination in admission to the Pennsylvania Bar. The reader of the Liacouras Commission's report, which is published in Volume 44 of the Temple Law Review, can review its findings and recommendations. I want to explain how the commission came into being, and the sequels to the report.
The driving force behind this commission was Judge Clifford Scott Green, then a distinguished member of the Court of Common Pleas. For many years, Judge Green had been distressed with the virtual absence of black attorneys in the Commonwealth. A top graduate of Temple Law School (and editor of the Law Review), Judge Green was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1952 – one of two black attorneys admitted that year and the thirty-third in the Commonwealth's history.[1] And 1952 was a typical year. Between 1920 and 1970, an average of two black attorneys were admitted per year. In 1970, there were 12,300 lawyers in the Commonwealth, of whom only 130 were African-Americans.
We remember Clifford Scott Green as an outstanding judge and humanitarian, a person who treated everyone with fairness, dignity and respect. But Judge Green was also intolerant — he was intolerant of injustice. The exclusion of African-Americans from the Pennsylvania bar was deplorable. I think that the final straw for Judge Green occurred when the Dean of Howard Law School advised his students not to apply for admission to the Pennsylvania bar because black lawyers were not welcome in this State. A shameful situation had become notorious.[2] Judge Green asked the Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Robert Landis, to appoint a commission to investigate the Board of Law Examiners' practices. Landis agreed, which was quite courageous inasmuch as the Board was appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and was chaired by a Superior Court judge. Landis appointed Judge Green (who would later serve as a Federal District Court judge), Judge Paul Dandridge (then of the Municipal Court and later of the Common Pleas Court), Riccardo Jackson (then an attorney and later a Common Pleas Court judge), and W. Bourn Ruthrauff (an attorney who became a partner in a major law firm).
Landis wanted to appoint Judge Green as chair of the commission, but Green refused. He insisted that, to have credibility, the chair must be a white person – and that the chair be someone who was tenacious, who would not back down in fight, and who was totally committed to equal opportunity. Those characteristics describe Peter Liacouras, who would later become a transformative Dean of Temple Law School and the greatest President in the modern history of Temple University. At Green's request, Landis appointed Liacouras as the chair, and the commission rightly came to bear his name.
The investigation faced daunting obstacles. The commission did not have subpoena power, nor could it depose witnesses or conduct any other discovery. Fortunately, however, the commission was able to obtain an enormous amount of helpful information from people of good will who were within the system and wanted change to occur.
The commission's report was issued in December 1970. The commission had found substantial evidence of racial discrimination in the administration of the bar examination. It also found that the grading process was unfair to all applicants and that the examination itself lacked validity. The commission's recommendations were quite modest – basically to insure that the examination was graded anonymously and that professional educators participate in the construction and grading of the examination. But the reaction to the report was divided and explosive. Chancellor Landis and other leaders of the bar supported the report and its recommendations. Members of the Board of Law Examiners and other judges and bar leaders denounced the report as defamatory and full of errors and lies. In the Philadelphia Bar Association, a motion was introduced to censure the members of the commission and Chancellor Landis.[3]
The turning point came from the Bar Association. The Board of Governors rejected the censure motion and instead accepted the report and endorsed the recommendations of the commission. The Bar Association then put its full weight behind those recommendations, and they were implemented.
The results were immediate and astounding. The number of black applicants admitted to the Pennsylvania bar skyrocketed, and the bar finally became integrated. Moreover, all applicants benefitted from the adoption of the commission's recommendations, because the bar examination and the grading process became fairer and more valid for everyone.
The Philadelphia Bar Association's decision to choose the commission and its scrivener as the recipients of the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Diversity Award is particularly appropriate. Speaking on behalf of the commission, I can say with certainty that these historic accomplishments would not have occurred without the Bar Association's support – from the courageous decision of its Chancellor to appoint the commission to the determination of the Board of Governors to put the Association's full weight behind an effort that materially advanced our precious goal of achieving equal justice under law.
Robert J. Reinstein
Clifford Scott Green Professor of Law
Temple University Beasley School of Law
March 28, 2012
Read the Full Liacouras Commission Report Here
[1] The thirty-fourth, admitted the next year, was A. Leon Higginbotham.
[2] Howard's Dean did not know how bad the situation actually was. In the course of the commission's investigation, one of the examiners told us that he developed his model "A" answer by picking a submission from a graduate of Harvard Law School, and that he picked a paper by a Howard Law School graduate to have a presumptively incorrect answer. I was allowed to examine the two applicants' answers in constitutional law, unfortunately after all of the applicants were notified whether they passed or failed. In a bitter irony, the "Harvard" answer was incorrect because the applicant relied on a decision that had been overruled by the Supreme Court, while the "Howard" applicant cited the governing decision correctly.
[3] Closer to home, the then dean of Temple Law School attempted to prevent the Law Review from publishing the report by threatening to refuse to certify the editors as persons of good character for bar admission. This threat was not carried out because the faculty overrode the dean and guaranteed academic freedom to the editors.


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