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Guns And Drugs, Benjamin Levin Apr 2016

Guns And Drugs, Benjamin Levin

Fordham Law Review

This Article argues that the increasingly prevalent critiques of the War on Drugs apply to other areas of criminal law. To highlight the broader relevance of these critiques, this Article uses as its test case the criminal regulation of gun possession. This Article identifies and distills three lines of drug war criticism and argues that they apply to possessory gun crimes in much the same way that they apply to drug crimes. Specifically, this Article focuses on: (1) race- and class-based critiques; (2) concerns about police and prosecutorial power; and (3) worries about the social and economic costs of mass …


When Theory Met Practice: Distributional Analysis In Critical Criminal Law Theorizing, Aya Gruber May 2015

When Theory Met Practice: Distributional Analysis In Critical Criminal Law Theorizing, Aya Gruber

Fordham Law Review

Focusing on criminal law and procedure in particular, this Article seeks to expose various tensions in critical race theorizing and progressive theorizing more broadly, offer some suggestions for a unifying methodology of critical criminal law analysis, and discuss where empirical study might fit into this new program. Progressive (critical race and feminist) theorizing on criminal law is not only subject to the competing frames of critique and formalism, it also exists within an overarching American criminal law culture that can eclipse both concerns over rights violations and structural injustice. The U.S. penal system has become a “peculiar institution” and a …


Clarifying The Curative Admissibility Doctrine: Using The Principles Of Forfeiture And Deterrence To Shape The Relief For An Opponent's Evidentiary Misconduct, Edward J. Imwinkelried Jan 2007

Clarifying The Curative Admissibility Doctrine: Using The Principles Of Forfeiture And Deterrence To Shape The Relief For An Opponent's Evidentiary Misconduct, Edward J. Imwinkelried

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Secrecy In Grand Jury Proceedings: A Proposal For A New Federal Rule Of Criminal Procedure 6(E) Jan 1969

Secrecy In Grand Jury Proceedings: A Proposal For A New Federal Rule Of Criminal Procedure 6(E)

Fordham Law Review

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The Revision Of The New York Code Of Criminal Procedure—A Tentative Draft Of The Chapter On Arrest Jan 1936

The Revision Of The New York Code Of Criminal Procedure—A Tentative Draft Of The Chapter On Arrest

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.