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Defining Insanity: How An Individual's View Can Impact A Trial, Jayme L. Ayres
Defining Insanity: How An Individual's View Can Impact A Trial, Jayme L. Ayres
Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee
The insanity plea has always been a controversial topic among anyone. No one sees eye to eye on the matter. This can present a problem within professional fields. When insanity cases are brought into courtrooms, legal and psychology professionals need to be able to agree to some extent. However, these professionals have no true control on how jurors define insanity. Jurors tend to determine guilty or not guilty in insanity cases, based on their own personal views. The current study is a replication of Doctor John Geiger’s 2003 and 2008 study of how legal professionals and undergraduate psychology students view …
Tennessee's Death Penalty Lottery, Bradley A. Maclean, H. E. Miller Jr.
Tennessee's Death Penalty Lottery, Bradley A. Maclean, H. E. Miller Jr.
Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy
Over the past 40 years, Tennessee has imposed sustained death sentences on 86 of the more than 2,500 defendants found guilty of first degree murder; and the State has executed only six of those defendants. How are those few selected? Is Tennessee consistently and reliably sentencing to death only the “worst of the bad”? To answer these questions, we surveyed all of Tennessee’s first degree murder cases since 1977, when Tennessee enacted its current capital punishment system. Tennessee’s scheme was designed in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Furman v. Georgia, which held that a capital punishment …
Tennessee Rule Of Criminal Procedure 36.1'S New Clothes: How The Tennessee Supreme Court's Opinion In State V. Brown Limited The Inherent Authority Of Trial Courts To Correct Illegal Sentences By Overlooking The Plain Language Of 36.1 And The "Jurisprudential Context" From Which Rule 36.1 Developed
Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy
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Judicial Influence And The United States Federal District Courts: A Case Study, Justin R. Hickerson
Judicial Influence And The United States Federal District Courts: A Case Study, Justin R. Hickerson
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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Cost-Benefit Analysis, The Death Penalty, And Rationales For Punishment, Rahiim Manji
Cost-Benefit Analysis, The Death Penalty, And Rationales For Punishment, Rahiim Manji
Senior Thesis Projects, 2003-2006
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