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"Insanity Is Smashing Up Against My Soul": The Fifth Circuit And Competency To Be Executed Cases After Panetti V. Quarterman, Michael L. Perlin, Talia Roitberg Harmon Apr 2022

"Insanity Is Smashing Up Against My Soul": The Fifth Circuit And Competency To Be Executed Cases After Panetti V. Quarterman, Michael L. Perlin, Talia Roitberg Harmon

Articles & Chapters

One of the open secrets of death penalty law and policy is the astonishingly high percentage of individuals on death row with serious mental disabilities. This is well known to lawyers who represent this cohort (and presumably, equally well known to the district attorneys who nevertheless prosecute them and the judges who try and sentence them), but is not generally discussed in the press nor, certainly, in political discourse. In the aggregate, this is far beneath society’s radar.

It is now over 14 years since the US Supreme Court decided a case that clarified the underlying issues. In Panetti v. …


The “Critical Stage” Of Plea-Bargaining And Disclosure Of Exculpatory Evidence, Gabriella Castellano Jan 2021

The “Critical Stage” Of Plea-Bargaining And Disclosure Of Exculpatory Evidence, Gabriella Castellano

NYLS Law Review

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Access Denied: How 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1915(G) Violates The First Amendment Rights Of Indigent Prisoners, Molly Guptill Manning Jan 2021

Access Denied: How 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1915(G) Violates The First Amendment Rights Of Indigent Prisoners, Molly Guptill Manning

Articles & Chapters

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Prejudice-Based Rights In Criminal Procedure, Justin Murray Jan 2020

Prejudice-Based Rights In Criminal Procedure, Justin Murray

Articles & Chapters

This Article critically examines a cluster of rules that use the concept of prejudice to restrict the scope of criminal defendants’ procedural rights, forming what I call prejudice-based rights. I focus, in particular, on outcome-centric prejudice- based rights—rights that apply only when failing to apply them might cause prejudice by affecting the outcome of the case. Two of criminal defendants’ most important rights fit this description: the right, originating in Brady v. Maryland, to obtain favorable, “material” evidence within the government’s knowledge, and the right to effective assistance of counsel. Since prejudice (or equivalently, materiality) is an element of these …


Can The President Control The Department Of Justice?, Bruce Green, Rebecca Roiphe Jan 2018

Can The President Control The Department Of Justice?, Bruce Green, Rebecca Roiphe

Articles & Chapters

As the investigation into President Trump's campaign ties to Russia grows increasingly intense, it is critical to understand how much control the President has over the Attorney General and the Department of Justice. Some critics claim that the President has absolute power to direct federal prosecutors and control their decisions. The President and his lawyers, joined by several scholars, take this claim one step further by arguing that the chief executive could not be guilty of obstruction of justice because his control over all prosecutorial decisions is absolute. This issue last arose during the Nixon Administration. The Department of Justice …


A Contextual Approach To Harmless Error Review, Justin Murray Jan 2017

A Contextual Approach To Harmless Error Review, Justin Murray

Articles & Chapters

Harmless error review is profoundly important, but arguably broken, in the form that courts currently employ it in criminal cases. One significant reason for this brokenness lies in the dissonance between the reductionism of modern harmless error methodology and the diverse normative ambitions of criminal procedure. Nearly all harmless error rules used by courts today focus exclusively on whether the procedural error under review affected the result of a judicial proceeding. I refer to these rules as “result-based harmlesserror review.” The singular preoccupation of result-based harmless error review with the outputs of criminal processes stands in marked contrast with criminal …


Of Trials, Reparation, And Transformation In Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Making Of A Common Purpose, Andrea Durbach Jan 2016

Of Trials, Reparation, And Transformation In Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Making Of A Common Purpose, Andrea Durbach

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Can Prosecutors Be Both Coach And Referee?, Rebecca Roiphe Jan 2016

Can Prosecutors Be Both Coach And Referee?, Rebecca Roiphe

Articles & Chapters

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Unraveling The Law Of War, Stephen J. Ellmann Jan 2016

Unraveling The Law Of War, Stephen J. Ellmann

Articles & Chapters

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Impact: Collected Essays On The Threat Of Economic Inequality., New York Law School. Impact For Public Interest Law And The Racial Justice Project. Jan 2015

Impact: Collected Essays On The Threat Of Economic Inequality., New York Law School. Impact For Public Interest Law And The Racial Justice Project.

Racial Justice Project

On April 17, 2015, the Impact Center for Public Interest Law at New York Law School hosted a symposium entitled "Tackling Economic Inequality" to bring together policymakers, advocates, academics, and community members to explore some of the causes and solutions to this growing problem. The essays collected in this volume, written by leading social justice advocates, are published to stimulate continued conversation on this critically important issue.


People V. Harnett, Michelle Minarcik Jan 2012

People V. Harnett, Michelle Minarcik

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Coming Clean: The Erosion Of Juvenile Miranda Rights In New York State, Justin Ashenfelter Jan 2012

Coming Clean: The Erosion Of Juvenile Miranda Rights In New York State, Justin Ashenfelter

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Constitutionality Of The Niqab Ban In Egypt: A Symbol Of Egypt’S Struggle For A Legal Identity, Luna Droubi Jan 2012

The Constitutionality Of The Niqab Ban In Egypt: A Symbol Of Egypt’S Struggle For A Legal Identity, Luna Droubi

NYLS Law Review

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Exonerating The Innocent: Pretrial Innocence Procedures, Tim Bakken, Lewis M. Steel Jan 2012

Exonerating The Innocent: Pretrial Innocence Procedures, Tim Bakken, Lewis M. Steel

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Confrontation Clause Curiosities: When Logic And Proportion Have Fallen Sloppy Dead, Randolph N. Jonakait Jan 2012

Confrontation Clause Curiosities: When Logic And Proportion Have Fallen Sloppy Dead, Randolph N. Jonakait

Articles & Chapters

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The Media, The Jury, And The High-Profile Defendant: A Defense Perspective On The Media Circus, John C. Meringolo Jan 2011

The Media, The Jury, And The High-Profile Defendant: A Defense Perspective On The Media Circus, John C. Meringolo

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Fictionalized Criminal Law And Youth Legal Consciousness, Avi Brisman Jan 2011

Fictionalized Criminal Law And Youth Legal Consciousness, Avi Brisman

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Embryo “Adoption”? The Rhetoric, The Law, And The Legal Consequences, Polina M. Dostalik Jan 2011

Embryo “Adoption”? The Rhetoric, The Law, And The Legal Consequences, Polina M. Dostalik

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Handcuffing The Press: First Amendment Limitations On The Reach Of Criminal Statutes As Applied To The Media, Lee Levine, Nathan E. Siegel, Jeanette Melendez Bead Jan 2011

Handcuffing The Press: First Amendment Limitations On The Reach Of Criminal Statutes As Applied To The Media, Lee Levine, Nathan E. Siegel, Jeanette Melendez Bead

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Exceptions: The Criminal Law's Illogical Approach To Hiv-Related Aggravated Assaults, Ari Ezra Waldman Jan 2011

Exceptions: The Criminal Law's Illogical Approach To Hiv-Related Aggravated Assaults, Ari Ezra Waldman

Articles & Chapters

This Article identifies logical and due process errors in HIV-related aggravated assault cases, which usually involve an HIV-positive individual having unprotected sex without disclosing his or her HIV status. While this behavior should not be encouraged, this Article suggests that punishing this conduct through a charge of aggravated assault - which requires a showing that the defendant’s actions were a means likely to cause grievous bodily harm or death - is fraught with fallacies in reasoning and runs afoul of due process. Specifically, some courts use the "rule of thumb" that HIV can possibly be transmitted through bodily fluids as …


Raising The Bar: Standards-Based Training, Supervision, And Evaluation, Adele Bernhard Jul 2010

Raising The Bar: Standards-Based Training, Supervision, And Evaluation, Adele Bernhard

Articles & Chapters

In this short Article, I sketch the methodology my colleagues and I at Pace Law School use to incorporate practice standards into our clinical teaching and reflect on how a standards-based teaching paradigm could be adapted to the training, supervision, and evaluation of public defenders. Then, I briefly consider how standards and standards-based teaching assist in the administration of assigned counsel plans and in the evaluation of the performance of public defender organizations. Although this Article does not cover any of these topics in depth, my goal is to introduce the reader to a standards-based approach to teaching and suggest …


Discipline In Schools After Safford Unified School District #1 V. Redding, Dennis D. Parker Jan 2010

Discipline In Schools After Safford Unified School District #1 V. Redding, Dennis D. Parker

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Introduction: Challenging The School-To-Prison Pipeline, Deborah N. Archer Jan 2010

Introduction: Challenging The School-To-Prison Pipeline, Deborah N. Archer

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Conflict Of Law And Surreptitious Taping Of Telephone Conversations, Carol M. Bast Jan 2009

Conflict Of Law And Surreptitious Taping Of Telephone Conversations, Carol M. Bast

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


United States V. Leveto, Jennifer Steward Jan 2009

United States V. Leveto, Jennifer Steward

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Equality, I Spoke That Word/ As If A Wedding Vow: Mental Disability Law And How We Treat Marginalized Persons, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2009

Equality, I Spoke That Word/ As If A Wedding Vow: Mental Disability Law And How We Treat Marginalized Persons, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

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“Equality, I Spoke Th At Word/As If A Wedding Vow”: Mental Disability Law And How We Treat Marginalized Persons, Michael J. Perlin, John Douard Jan 2008

“Equality, I Spoke Th At Word/As If A Wedding Vow”: Mental Disability Law And How We Treat Marginalized Persons, Michael J. Perlin, John Douard

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Sex Offender As Scapegoat: The Monstrous Other Within, John Douard Jan 2008

Sex Offender As Scapegoat: The Monstrous Other Within, John Douard

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Falling To Pieces: New York State Civil Legal Remedies Available To Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Sharon Stapel Jan 2007

Falling To Pieces: New York State Civil Legal Remedies Available To Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Sharon Stapel

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reviving Constitutionalism In Iraq: Key Provisions Of The Interim Constitution, His Excellency Feisal Amin Al-Istrabadi Jan 2006

Reviving Constitutionalism In Iraq: Key Provisions Of The Interim Constitution, His Excellency Feisal Amin Al-Istrabadi

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.