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Moving Beyond Miranda: Concessions For Confessions, Scott Howe Dec 2015

Moving Beyond Miranda: Concessions For Confessions, Scott Howe

Scott W. Howe

Abstract: The law governing police interrogation provides perverse incentives. For criminal suspects, the law rewards obstruction and concealment. For police officers, it honors deceit and psychological aggression. For the courts and the rest of us, it encourages blindness and rationalization. This Article contends that the law could help foster better behaviors. The law could incentivize criminals to confess without police trickery and oppression. It could motivate police officers involved in obtaining suspect statements to avoid chicanery and duress. And, it could summon courts and the rest of us to speak more truthfully about whether suspect admissions are the product of …


Shredded Fish Redux, Robert Sanger Apr 2015

Shredded Fish Redux, Robert Sanger

Robert M. Sanger

The Yates case, in which certiorari had been granted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit had been discussed in a previous column of Criminal Justice. The article was entitled “Shredded Fish” because the sea captain in Yates was prosecuted under the document shredding provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 for destroying fish. That case has now been decided by the United States Supreme Court in Yates v. United States, on February 25, 2015. The case involves the rule of lenity as well as a discussion of overcriminalization.


Welfare Fraud And The Fourth Amendment , Erik Luna Jan 2013

Welfare Fraud And The Fourth Amendment , Erik Luna

Erik Luna

No abstract provided.


Psychopathy And Sentencing, Erik Luna Dec 2012

Psychopathy And Sentencing, Erik Luna

Erik Luna

No abstract provided.


Robinson V. California: From Revolutionary Constitutional Doctrine To Model Ban On Status Crimes, Erik Luna Dec 2011

Robinson V. California: From Revolutionary Constitutional Doctrine To Model Ban On Status Crimes, Erik Luna

Erik Luna

No abstract provided.


The Prosecutor In Transnational Perspective, Erik Luna, Marianne Wade Dec 2011

The Prosecutor In Transnational Perspective, Erik Luna, Marianne Wade

Erik Luna

No abstract provided.


Supreme Court Criminal Law Jurisprudence - October 2008 Term, Richard Klein Jul 2011

Supreme Court Criminal Law Jurisprudence - October 2008 Term, Richard Klein

Richard Daniel Klein

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Review Essay: Excuse Theory Through A Liberal Lens, Richard Boldt Sep 2010

Review Essay: Excuse Theory Through A Liberal Lens, Richard Boldt

Richard C. Boldt

This essay reviews Excusing Crime, by Jeremy Horder, Reader in Criminal Law and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford. It describes Horder’s project, which is to build a complex taxonomy of criminal law excuse practices and to use that account of “why things are as they are” to argue, on the basis of his version of liberal theory, against “the restricted range” of excuses in the UK and elsewhere. By virtue of his appreciation that some, but not all, excuses contain justificatory elements, and given his insistence that pure claims of non-responsibility are not excuses, Horder has defined a …


Hydraulic Pressures And Slight Deviations, Erik Luna Dec 2008

Hydraulic Pressures And Slight Deviations, Erik Luna

Erik Luna

No abstract provided.


In Support Of Restorative Justice And Reply, Erik Luna Dec 2008

In Support Of Restorative Justice And Reply, Erik Luna

Erik Luna

No abstract provided.


Drugs And Justice, Erik Luna, Margaret Battin Dec 2007

Drugs And Justice, Erik Luna, Margaret Battin

Erik Luna

No abstract provided.


La Justicia Restorativa: Un Modela De Penas Alternativas, Erik Luna Dec 2005

La Justicia Restorativa: Un Modela De Penas Alternativas, Erik Luna

Erik Luna

No abstract provided.


Overextending The Criminal Law And Misguided Guidelines, Erik Luna Dec 2003

Overextending The Criminal Law And Misguided Guidelines, Erik Luna

Erik Luna

No abstract provided.