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Criminal Procedure

2007

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Statement Of Steven L. Chanenson Before The United States Sentencing Commission Regarding Retroactivity Of Crack Guidelines Amendments, Steven Chanenson Oct 2007

Statement Of Steven L. Chanenson Before The United States Sentencing Commission Regarding Retroactivity Of Crack Guidelines Amendments, Steven Chanenson

Steven L. Chanenson

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The Eighth Amendment, The Death Penalty And Ordinary Robbery-Burglary Murderers: A California Case Study, Steven Shatz Aug 2007

The Eighth Amendment, The Death Penalty And Ordinary Robbery-Burglary Murderers: A California Case Study, Steven Shatz

Steven F. Shatz

Beginning with Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court's seminal case applying the Eighth Amendment to the death penalty, the Court has developed two principles limiting the states' power to define death-eligibility: the principle from Furman and Zant v. Stephens that states are required to "genuinely narrow" the death-eligible class to avoid the risk of arbitrariness in the imposition of the death penalty and the principle from Enmund v. Florida and Tison v. Arizona that the death penalty is a disproportionate punishment for a particular category of murders when it does not comport with contemporary values and serves no penological purpose. …

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Federal Cocaine Sentencing In Transition, Steven Chanenson, Douglas Berman May 2007

Federal Cocaine Sentencing In Transition, Steven Chanenson, Douglas Berman

Steven L. Chanenson

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Can And Will Information Spur Post-Modern Setencing Reforms?, Steven Chanenson, Douglas Berman Mar 2007

Can And Will Information Spur Post-Modern Setencing Reforms?, Steven Chanenson, Douglas Berman

Steven L. Chanenson

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