Avi K.
1. How do you define “overzealous”?
Working for the government. It’s their job to try getting a guilty plea.
2. Unfortunately I had experiences with this type in my youth. I’m sorry to hear that, but I’m not sure what relevance it has.
3. You still have not answered my question about white-collar cases.
What exactly is your question? If you’re asking if they’re any more guilty with a guilty plea or being found by a jury to be guilty, my answer is the same. Just to be clear, I’m not saying that most people in jail aren’t guilty and should be there. What I am saying, is that being found guilty by the US court system doesn’t mean you’re actually guilty.
4. While it is true that YCT lists him on their “rabbinic advisory board” at the beginning of the article he only lists positions at Stern College (which machshirs him in my book) – and BTW, the YU website has his shiurim and Columbia and NYU law schools. While Rabbi Weiss has moved significantly to the left it could be that Rabbi Berman did not.
Associating with someone whose agenda is to destroy the Yiddishkite that I know makes him posul. I honestly don’t care. He can walk away from the movement and then we’ll talk. I’m not sure where article you referring, to by the way.
(5) In any case, he was quoting Rav Soloveichik.
I don’t have to necessarily trust him. I used to have a book about the life of the man in question. The book had roughly 50 interviews quoting major students of his with contradictory testimonies, regarding matters such as religious Zionism, Shabbos elevators, and even abortions.