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The "Damned" In A Flashover State: Arson And The Use Of Scientific Methods And Expert Testimony In West Virginia, Christopher W. Maidona
The "Damned" In A Flashover State: Arson And The Use Of Scientific Methods And Expert Testimony In West Virginia, Christopher W. Maidona
West Virginia Law Review Online
The fire moved quickly through the house as Cameron Todd Willingham screamed for his children from the front porch. Inside the blaze were his three children. Firefighters arrived, uncoiled hoses, and aimed water at the raging fire. However, all three Willingham children died that night from smoke inhalation.
News of the December 23, 1991, tragedy spread throughout Corsicana, Texas. Meanwhile, investigators sought to determine what caused the fire. The investigators “toured the perimeter of the house, taking notes and photographs, like archeologists mapping out a ruin.” In the kitchen, they found smoke and heat damage—signs the fire had not originated …
The Stereotyped Offender: Domestic Violence And The Failure Of Intervention [Batterer Intervention Program (Bip) Standards Data, As Of 2015], Carolyn B. Ramsey
The Stereotyped Offender: Domestic Violence And The Failure Of Intervention [Batterer Intervention Program (Bip) Standards Data, As Of 2015], Carolyn B. Ramsey
Research Data
These 19 comparative data tables relating to state and local certification standards for batterer intervention programs (BIPs), as of 2015, are electronic Appendices B-T to Carolyn B. Ramsey, The Stereotyped Offender: Domestic Violence and the Failure of Intervention, 120 Penn. St. L. Rev. 337 (2015), available at http://scholar.law.colorado.edu/articles/56/. Appendix A is not reproduced here because it simply contains citations to the state and local standards, but it is published with the journal article.
Emergence From Civil Death: The Evolution Of Expungement In West Virginia, Valena Beety, Michael Aloi, Evan Johns
Emergence From Civil Death: The Evolution Of Expungement In West Virginia, Valena Beety, Michael Aloi, Evan Johns
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Ninety-two million Americans have a criminal record—nearly one in three adults. This criminal record can include an arrest that did not lead to a conviction, a conviction for which the person did not serve time in prison, or a conviction for a nonviolent crime. All can have a similar impact on an individual’s job prospects and on local economies. Incarcerating adult Americans costs a combined $68 billion annually at the local, state, and federal levels. The cost of lost wages and lost financial contributions to society by ex-offenders is even higher.
This financially immobilized population of former offenders may be …
The Linchpin Of Identification Evidence: The Unreliability Of Eyewitnesses And The Need For Reform In West Virginia, Jared T. Dotson
The Linchpin Of Identification Evidence: The Unreliability Of Eyewitnesses And The Need For Reform In West Virginia, Jared T. Dotson
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Rodney King And The Decriminalization Of Police Brutality In America: Direct And Judicial Access To The Grand Jury As Remedies For Victims Of Police Brutality When The Prosecutor Declines To Prosecute, Peter L. Davis
Peter L. Davis
This Article begins with the premise that, despite political rhetoric and occasional prosecutions to the contrary, police brutality has been effectively decriminalized in this country. The Article adopts the Rodney King case as the paradigm for examining this phenomenon. Scrutinizing the culture and semantics of police brutality, the author concludes that a double standard of criminality exists in the United States, under which different rules apply to a police than to everyone else. This double standard is socially dysfunctional. Particularly among minorities, it leads to a sense of cynicism about our legal system that can result in civil disorder when …
The Tipping Point: Prison Overcrowding Nationally, In West Virginia, And Recommendations For Reform, Karina Kendrick
The Tipping Point: Prison Overcrowding Nationally, In West Virginia, And Recommendations For Reform, Karina Kendrick
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
What Is So "Grand" About The West Virginia Grand Jury System? A Desperate Need For Reform After The Duek Lacrosse Rape Scandal, Nicholas James
What Is So "Grand" About The West Virginia Grand Jury System? A Desperate Need For Reform After The Duek Lacrosse Rape Scandal, Nicholas James
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Battered By Men, Bruised By Injustice: The Plight Of Women Who Fight Back And The Need For The Battered Women Defense In West Virginia, Jeffrey M. Shawver
Battered By Men, Bruised By Injustice: The Plight Of Women Who Fight Back And The Need For The Battered Women Defense In West Virginia, Jeffrey M. Shawver
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Hate Crime Law In West Virginia, Paul R. Sheridan
Hate Crime Law In West Virginia, Paul R. Sheridan
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Rodney King And The Decriminalization Of Police Brutality In America: Direct And Judicial Access To The Grand Jury As Remedies For Victims Of Police Brutality When The Prosecutor Declines To Prosecute, Peter L. Davis
Scholarly Works
This Article begins with the premise that, despite political rhetoric and occasional prosecutions to the contrary, police brutality has been effectively decriminalized in this country. The Article adopts the Rodney King case as the paradigm for examining this phenomenon. Scrutinizing the culture and semantics of police brutality, the author concludes that a double standard of criminality exists in the United States, under which different rules apply to a police than to everyone else. This double standard is socially dysfunctional. Particularly among minorities, it leads to a sense of cynicism about our legal system that can result in civil disorder when …
Facilities Review Panel V. Coe: The West Virginia Supreme Court Of Appeals Adopts An Objective Approach To Deciding Pretrial Detention Of Accused Juveniles, Elizabeth S. Lawton
Facilities Review Panel V. Coe: The West Virginia Supreme Court Of Appeals Adopts An Objective Approach To Deciding Pretrial Detention Of Accused Juveniles, Elizabeth S. Lawton
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Criminal Law, Mark Mcqueen
Criminal Law, Mark A. Colantonio
Criminal Law, John M. Lynn
Confessions, Susan E. Morton
Confessions, Steven P. Mcgowan
Elements Of Statutory Offenses, Steven P. Mcgowan
Elements Of Statutory Offenses, Steven P. Mcgowan
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1981
Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1981
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1980
Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1980
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1979
Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1979
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1978
Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1978
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Survey Of Develpoments In West Virginia Law: 1977, Joseph W. Bowman, Thomas Evans, Janet Archer Goodwin, Laura Jane Kelly, Kenneth E. Tawney
Survey Of Develpoments In West Virginia Law: 1977, Joseph W. Bowman, Thomas Evans, Janet Archer Goodwin, Laura Jane Kelly, Kenneth E. Tawney
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1976
Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1976
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1975-1976, Lloyd George Jackson Ii, John Burdick Koch, Alan Dale Moats, Thomas A. Vorbach
Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1975-1976, Lloyd George Jackson Ii, John Burdick Koch, Alan Dale Moats, Thomas A. Vorbach
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Cost Of Criminal Justice In West Virginia, George A. Shipman, Carl M. Frasure
The Cost Of Criminal Justice In West Virginia, George A. Shipman, Carl M. Frasure
West Virginia Law Review
The National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, generally known as the Wickersham Commission, is popularly associated with prohibition, as critic, protagonist, propagandist, or apologist, depending upon the point of view. The more fundamental aspects of its work have escaped popular attention. The first two reports dealt with the problem of national prohibition. Twelve more were devoted to other phases of crime and its treatment. Here attention is to be devoted to the Report on the Cost of Crime in an effort to determine the economic burden through taxation, private expenditures, and economic loss which results from the necessity of …
Murder--Distinction Between First And Second Degree Inconsistency In Some West Virginia Cases, J. G. Heane Jr.
Murder--Distinction Between First And Second Degree Inconsistency In Some West Virginia Cases, J. G. Heane Jr.
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.