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Writing Supreme Court Biography: A Single Lens View Of A Nine-Sided Image, Stephen Wermiel
Writing Supreme Court Biography: A Single Lens View Of A Nine-Sided Image, Stephen Wermiel
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Mapping And Matching Dna: Several Legal Complications Of Accurate Classifications, Aviam Soifer, Miriam Wugmeister
Mapping And Matching Dna: Several Legal Complications Of Accurate Classifications, Aviam Soifer, Miriam Wugmeister
UC Law Constitutional Quarterly
Classifications are a boon and bane and a basic bone of contention in law. With the advent of DNA matching and new knowledge of the human genome, significant problems that exist in other areas of law are exacerbated. The use of even accurate classifications may generate substantial discrimination in the realms of privacy and personal freedom.
Toward A New Vision Of Informants: A History Of Abuses And Suggestions For Reform, Clifford S. Zimmerman
Toward A New Vision Of Informants: A History Of Abuses And Suggestions For Reform, Clifford S. Zimmerman
UC Law Constitutional Quarterly
Informants have long been used in American criminal law enforcement. Informants are often the best, if not the only, way to discover and thwart certain crimes, particularly crimes in which the victim is unknown or reluctant to cooperate. Because of informants' usefulness, law enforcement personnel, from prosecutors to prison guards, are tempted to abuse the informant system. No government can be supposed to have expressly instructed its spies to instigate the perpetration of crime. Nevertheless, to remain unsuspected, every spy must be zealous in the cause which he pretends to have espoused. That zeal directly encourages crime. In short, our …