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Judge Friendly's Contributions To Securities Law And Criminal Procedure: "Moderation Is All", Frank Goodman
Judge Friendly's Contributions To Securities Law And Criminal Procedure: "Moderation Is All", Frank Goodman
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Criminal Liability For Omissions: A Brief Summary And Critique Of The Law In The United States, Paul H. Robinson
Criminal Liability For Omissions: A Brief Summary And Critique Of The Law In The United States, Paul H. Robinson
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Criminal liability for an omission is imposed in two distinct situations. First, such liability is often imposed explicitly in offense definitions that punish a failure to perform certain conduct. For example, it is an offense to fail to file a tax return. Second, it is also common for a general provision, apart from an offense definition, to create omission liability for an offense defined in commission terms. Parents, for example, are generally given the legal duty to care for their children. A parent may be held liable for criminal homicide, then, where death results from a failure to perform this …
Undiminished Confusion In Diminished Capacity, Stephen J. Morse
Undiminished Confusion In Diminished Capacity, Stephen J. Morse
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Imputed Criminal Liability, Paul H. Robinson
Imputed Criminal Liability, Paul H. Robinson
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Typically, the set of elements defining a crime comprise what may be called the paradigm of liability for that offense: An actor is criminally liable if and only if the state proves all these elements. The paradigm of an offense, however, does not always determine criminal liability. Even where all the elements of the paradigm are proven, rules and doctrines create exceptions that affect criminal liability. Some exceptions, such as insanity, duress, and law enforcement authority, can exculpate an actor even though his conduct and state of mind satisfy the paradigm for the offense charged. Such exculpating exceptions are grouped …
Allocational Sanctions: The Problem Of Negative Rights In A Positive State, Seth F. Kreimer
Allocational Sanctions: The Problem Of Negative Rights In A Positive State, Seth F. Kreimer
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Element Analysis In Defining Criminal Liability: The Model Penal Code And Beyond, Paul H. Robinson, Jane A. Grall
Element Analysis In Defining Criminal Liability: The Model Penal Code And Beyond, Paul H. Robinson, Jane A. Grall
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The pursuit of fairness and effectiveness has inspired and guided criminal code reformers of the past two decades. Because penal law protects the most important societal interests and authorizes the most serious sanctions the government may impose - the stigma of conviction, imprisonment, and even death - a criminal code, more than any other body of law, should be rational, clear, and internally consistent. Only a precise, principled code that sufficiently defines forbidden conduct can achieve its goals of condemnation and deterrence. Such a code gives citizens fair warning of what will constitute a crime, limits governmental discretion in determining …
Failed Explanations And Criminal Responsibility: Experts And The Unconscious, Stephen J. Morse
Failed Explanations And Criminal Responsibility: Experts And The Unconscious, Stephen J. Morse
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Commentary: Rummel V. Estelle: Mockingbirds Among The Brethren, Kenneth Lasson
Commentary: Rummel V. Estelle: Mockingbirds Among The Brethren, Kenneth Lasson
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In this commentary Professor Lasson discusses the Supreme Court's decision in Rummel v. Estelle and reveals a poignant personal memorandum that reflects the analysis of human values necessarily performed by whichever Justice cast the deciding vote.
A Brief History Of Distinctions In Criminal Culpability, Paul H. Robinson
A Brief History Of Distinctions In Criminal Culpability, Paul H. Robinson
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The Model Penal Code identifies five levels of culpable states of mind significant to criminal liability. Professor Robinson reviews the evolution and refinement of those distinctions and considers current and future implications of viewing the Model Penal Code scheme as one stage in a continuing development.
Constitutionalizing Forfeiture Law—The German Example, James Maxeiner
Constitutionalizing Forfeiture Law—The German Example, James Maxeiner
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This article demonstrates how German criminal law has made forfeiture of objects used in crime consistent with constitutional guarantees.
Bane Of American Forfeiture Law—Banished At Last?, James Maxeiner
Bane Of American Forfeiture Law—Banished At Last?, James Maxeiner
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This article refutes the claimed historical bases for criminal law in rem forfeiture.
Survey Of Criminal Procedure — Alternative Dispositions Of Defendants, Charles Shafer
Survey Of Criminal Procedure — Alternative Dispositions Of Defendants, Charles Shafer
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The criminal justice system provides various alternatives for the disposition of criminal defendants. Three of these alternatives, pretrial intervention, drug treatment, and probation, were dealt with in recent New Jersey Supreme Court decisions. The court examined the substantive criteria and procedures used in assigning each disposition and focused primarily on the desire to provide rehabilitative opportunities for each defendant. This note will examine those decisions and the implications of the court's concentration on the goal of rehabilitation.
The Twilight Of Welfare Criminology, Stephen J. Morse
The Twilight Of Welfare Criminology, Stephen J. Morse
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The Twilight Of Welfare Criminology: A Final Word, Stephen J. Morse
The Twilight Of Welfare Criminology: A Final Word, Stephen J. Morse
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A Theory Of Justification: Societal Harm As A Prerequisite For Criminal Liability, Paul H. Robinson
A Theory Of Justification: Societal Harm As A Prerequisite For Criminal Liability, Paul H. Robinson
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All would agree that the criminal law seeks to prevent harmful results rather than to punish evil intent that produces no harm. If one views deterrence as the proper function of the criminal law, a harm requirement is appropriate. To the extent that the criminal law punishes nonharmful conduct, it weakens the stigma and deterrent effect of criminal conviction for harmful conduct. If a defendant who has caused no harm feels that he is punished unjustifiably, rehabilitative efforts will be hampered. Indeed, one may ask: If no harm has been caused, what harm will be deterred by punishment, and what …
Proposal And Analysis Of A Unitary System For Review Of Criminal Judgments, Paul H. Robinson
Proposal And Analysis Of A Unitary System For Review Of Criminal Judgments, Paul H. Robinson
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Debate continues over expanded use of habeus corpus for collateral attack of criminal judgments. Some commentators argue that the current system of seemingly endless post-conviction review fails to provide the finality and integrity required of any truly fair and effective system of criminal justice. Others claim that such an expansive post-conviction remedy system is justified when a man's liberty is at stake. It is a central thesis of this article that not only does the present system of post-conviction remedies fall short of achieving adequate fairness and comprehensiveness, but also that the attempt to achieve these values has produced a …
Comments And Casenotes: To Kill A Mockingbird - Star Decisis And M'Naghten In Maryland, Kenneth Lasson
Comments And Casenotes: To Kill A Mockingbird - Star Decisis And M'Naghten In Maryland, Kenneth Lasson
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There are certain pillars of jurisprudence which, despite the erosive elements of time and progress, remain sacred. After more than a century of judicial dialogue the venerable M'Naghten Rule survives as the prevailing test to determine criminal responsibility. The rule states: "To establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or if he did know …
Insanity As A Defense: The Bifurcated Trial, David W. Louisell, Geoffrey Hazard
Insanity As A Defense: The Bifurcated Trial, David W. Louisell, Geoffrey Hazard
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