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The Politics Of Possession And Gun Violence: The Bruen Decision's Impact On Firearm Regulation, Jacob Butler Aug 2024

The Politics Of Possession And Gun Violence: The Bruen Decision's Impact On Firearm Regulation, Jacob Butler

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States struggle to implement new firearms policies because they are

limited by two major forces: the political feasibility of passing new firearms

legislation and an increasingly broad and individualized Second Amendment

right. Due to this conflict, states continually return to one of few

constitutional yet politically popular methods of gun control: enacting

possession-based firearms laws. These laws are largely ineffective at

reducing gun violence.

In the 2022 Supreme Court decision New York Rifle and Pistol

Association v. Bruen, the Court further expanded the scope of the Second

Amendment to protect the individual’s right to bear arms outside of the …


A Denial Of Personhood: Why Hate Crime Legislation Is Necessary To Assure Proportionality In Punishment, Clare Godfryd Mar 2024

A Denial Of Personhood: Why Hate Crime Legislation Is Necessary To Assure Proportionality In Punishment, Clare Godfryd

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The term “hate crime” entered the mainstream in the United States during the 1980s, when advocates began to track incidents of bias-motivated violence. Since then, hate crimes have continued to garner significant attention. Advocates and legislators have traditionally justified hate crime law under the “expressive theory,” the idea that the purpose of such laws is to condemn prejudice and express messages of tolerance and equality.

In this Comment, I offer a distinct justification for hate crime legislation. Specifically, I argue that, when a perpetrator targets a victim because of perceived immutable characteristics, the hate crime offender denies the victim’s agency …


Zero-Option Defendants: United States V. Mclellan And The Judiciary's Role In Protecting The Right To Compulsory Process, Wisdom U. Onwuchekwa-Banogu Jan 2024

Zero-Option Defendants: United States V. Mclellan And The Judiciary's Role In Protecting The Right To Compulsory Process, Wisdom U. Onwuchekwa-Banogu

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How does one obtain evidence located outside the United States for a criminal trial? For prosecutors, the answer is an exclusive treaty process: Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs). Defendants, on the other hand, may only use an unpredictable, ineffective, non-treaty process: letters rogatory. The result is a selective advantage for law enforcement at the expense of the defendant. Though this imbalance necessarily raises Sixth Amendment Compulsory Process Clause concerns, MLATs have remained largely undisturbed because defendants still have some form of process, albeit a lesser one. But what happens when the letters rogatory process is also closed off to the …


Race Matters In Jury Selection, Peter A. Joy Feb 2015

Race Matters In Jury Selection, Peter A. Joy

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The #Ferguson Effect: Opening The Pandora’S Box Of Implicit Racial Bias In Jury Selection, Sarah Jane Forman Feb 2015

The #Ferguson Effect: Opening The Pandora’S Box Of Implicit Racial Bias In Jury Selection, Sarah Jane Forman

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Hidden Racial Bias: Why We Need To Talk With Jurors About Ferguson, Patrick C. Brayer Feb 2015

Hidden Racial Bias: Why We Need To Talk With Jurors About Ferguson, Patrick C. Brayer

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Forced Decryption As Equilibrium—Why It’S Constitutional And How Riley Matters, Dan Terzian Sep 2014

Forced Decryption As Equilibrium—Why It’S Constitutional And How Riley Matters, Dan Terzian

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Choice Of Counsel And The Appearance Of Equal Justice Under Law, Wesley M. Oliver May 2014

Choice Of Counsel And The Appearance Of Equal Justice Under Law, Wesley M. Oliver

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Abidor V. Napolitano: Suspicionless Cell Phone And Laptop “Strip” Searches At The Border Compromise The Fourth And First Amendments, Adam Lamparello, Charles E. Maclean May 2014

Abidor V. Napolitano: Suspicionless Cell Phone And Laptop “Strip” Searches At The Border Compromise The Fourth And First Amendments, Adam Lamparello, Charles E. Maclean

NULR Online

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The Dog Days Of Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, Kit Kinports Aug 2013

The Dog Days Of Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, Kit Kinports

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Interrogations And The Guiding Hand Of Counsel: Montejo, Ventris, And The Sixth Amendment's Continued Vitality, Ben G. Cohen, Bidish J. Sarma, Robert J. Smith Apr 2009

Interrogations And The Guiding Hand Of Counsel: Montejo, Ventris, And The Sixth Amendment's Continued Vitality, Ben G. Cohen, Bidish J. Sarma, Robert J. Smith

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Finding A Happy And Ethical Medium Between A Prosecutor Who Believes The Defendant Didn't Do It And The Boss Who Says That He Did, Melanie D. Wilson Aug 2008

Finding A Happy And Ethical Medium Between A Prosecutor Who Believes The Defendant Didn't Do It And The Boss Who Says That He Did, Melanie D. Wilson

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A Floor, Not A Ceiling: Federalism And Remedies For Violations Of Constitutional Rights In Danforth V. Minnesota, Ilya Somin Jun 2008

A Floor, Not A Ceiling: Federalism And Remedies For Violations Of Constitutional Rights In Danforth V. Minnesota, Ilya Somin

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