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Get In The Game Or Get Out Of The Way: Fixing The Politics Of Death, Adam M. Gershowitz Sep 2019

Get In The Game Or Get Out Of The Way: Fixing The Politics Of Death, Adam M. Gershowitz

Adam M. Gershowitz

No abstract provided.


Delaware's Capital Jury Selection: Inadequate Voir Dire And The Problem Of Automatic Death Penalty Jurors, Adam M. Gershowitz Sep 2019

Delaware's Capital Jury Selection: Inadequate Voir Dire And The Problem Of Automatic Death Penalty Jurors, Adam M. Gershowitz

Adam M. Gershowitz

No abstract provided.


Particularism, Telishment, And Three Strikes Laws, Michael S. Green Sep 2019

Particularism, Telishment, And Three Strikes Laws, Michael S. Green

Michael S. Green

No abstract provided.


Capital Murder Symposium: Policy Panel, Davison M. Douglas, Richard Dieter Sep 2019

Capital Murder Symposium: Policy Panel, Davison M. Douglas, Richard Dieter

Davison M. Douglas

This symposium looked at capital murder prosecutions, mainly in Virginia, from both a practice standpoint and a policy standpoint. This is the final session, the Policy Panel that addressed if and when the death penalty should be imposed..


Deciding When To Decide: How Appellate Procedure Distributes The Costs Of Legal Change, Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl Sep 2019

Deciding When To Decide: How Appellate Procedure Distributes The Costs Of Legal Change, Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl

Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl

Legal change is a fact of life, and the need to deal with it has spawned a number of complicated bodies of doctrine. Some aspects of the problem of legal change have been studied extensively, such as doctrines concerning the retroactivity of new law and the question whether inferior courts can anticipatorily overrule a moribund superior court precedent. How such questions are answered affects the size and the distribution of the costs of legal change. Less appreciated is the way that heretofore almost invisible matters of appellate procedure and case handling also allocate the costs of legal transitions. In particular, …