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The Motion In Limine In Politically Sensitive Cases: Silencing The Defendant At Trial, Douglas L. Colbert
The Motion In Limine In Politically Sensitive Cases: Silencing The Defendant At Trial, Douglas L. Colbert
Douglas L. Colbert
No abstract provided.
The Motion In Limine:Trial Without Jury - A Government's Weapon Against The Sanctuary Movement, Douglas L. Colbert
The Motion In Limine:Trial Without Jury - A Government's Weapon Against The Sanctuary Movement, Douglas L. Colbert
Douglas L. Colbert
No abstract provided.
Federal Objections - Quick Reference Card, Sydney Aaron Beckman
Federal Objections - Quick Reference Card, Sydney Aaron Beckman
Sydney A. Beckman
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Statistical String Theory For Courts: If The Data Don't Fit..., David F. Babbel
Statistical String Theory For Courts: If The Data Don't Fit..., David F. Babbel
David F Babbel
The primary purpose of this article is to provide courts with an important new tool for applying the correct probability distribution to a given legal question. This tool is path-breaking and will have an extensive impact on how a wide variety of cases are decided. In areas as diverse as criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits alleging securities fraud, courts must assess the relevance and reliability of statistical data and the inferences drawn therefrom. But, courts and expert witnesses often make mistaken assumptions about what probability distributions are appropriate for their analyses. Using the wrong probability distribution can lead to invalid …
Unchaste And Incredible: The Use Of Gendered Conceptions Of Honor In Impeachment, Julia Simon-Kerr
Unchaste And Incredible: The Use Of Gendered Conceptions Of Honor In Impeachment, Julia Simon-Kerr
Julia Simon-Kerr
The American rules for impeaching witnesses developed against a cultural background that equated a woman's "honor," and thus her credibility, with her sexual virtue. The idea that a woman's chastity informs her credibility did not originate in rape trials and the confusing interplay between questions of consent and sexual history. Rather, gendered notions of honor so permeated American legal culture that attorneys routinely attempted to impeach female witnesses by invoking their sexual histories in cases involving such diverse claims as title to land, assault, arson, and wrongful death. But while many courts initially accepted the notion that an unchaste woman …
Eyes Wide Shut: How Ignorance Of The Common Interest Doctrine Can Compromise Informed Consent, Katharine Schaffzin
Eyes Wide Shut: How Ignorance Of The Common Interest Doctrine Can Compromise Informed Consent, Katharine Schaffzin
Katharine Traylor Schaffzin
The common interest doctrine offers many time and cost-saving advantages to clients. It also carries with it the consequence that counsel representing a party to a common interest group accept ethical or fiduciary responsibilities on behalf of the other members of that group. This pseudo-attorney-client relationship may limit an attorney's abilities to fulfill her ethical obligations to her client. This article explores the mechanisms for protecting the client and the attorney before entering a common interest arrangement.
Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence In The U.S. Courts, Jane Moriarty
Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence In The U.S. Courts, Jane Moriarty
Jane Campbell Moriarty
This article explores the admissibility of neuroimaging evidence in U.S. courts, recognizing various trends in decisions about such evidence. While courts have routinely admitted some neuroimages, such as CT scans and MRI, as proof of trauma and disease, they have been more circumspect about admitting the PET and SPECT scans and fMRI evidence. With the latter technologies, courts have often expressed reservations about what can be inferred from the images. Moreover, courts seem unwilling to find neuroimaging sufficient to prove either insanity or incompetency, but are relatively lenient about admitting neuroimages in death penalty hearings. Some claim that fMRI and …
Evidence Codification And Transubstantive And Bifurcated Evidence Codes, John Capowski
Evidence Codification And Transubstantive And Bifurcated Evidence Codes, John Capowski
John J. Capowski
No abstract provided.
From A Plane Crash To The Conviction Of An Innocent Person: A Call On Lawmakers To Establish That Forensic Evidence Is Inadmissible Unless Forensic Equipment Is Developed As A Safety-Critical System, Dr. Boaz Sangero, Dr. Mordechai Halpert
From A Plane Crash To The Conviction Of An Innocent Person: A Call On Lawmakers To Establish That Forensic Evidence Is Inadmissible Unless Forensic Equipment Is Developed As A Safety-Critical System, Dr. Boaz Sangero, Dr. Mordechai Halpert
Prof. Boaz Sangero
According to existing law, a criminal conviction may be based on a single piece of scientific (forensic) evidence. Thus, for example, a DNA match could, on its own, lead to a conviction and a prolonged term of imprisonment, or even a death sentence. A testing error might result in the conviction of an innocent person. Therefore, the state has a duty to ensure that such evidence is as reliable as possible. This article protests an inconceivable situation: that the development of forensic equipment, which is designed to produce evidence that can be relied on in a criminal trial, is not …
Establishing Separate Criminal And Civil Evidence Codes, John J. Capowski
Establishing Separate Criminal And Civil Evidence Codes, John J. Capowski
John J. Capowski
Trial Tips: Structure In Direct Examination Wins Cases, J. Palmer Lockard Ii
Trial Tips: Structure In Direct Examination Wins Cases, J. Palmer Lockard Ii
J. Palmer Lockard II
The Trial-Time/Forum Principle And The Nature Of Evidence Rules, Alex Stein
The Trial-Time/Forum Principle And The Nature Of Evidence Rules, Alex Stein
Alex Stein
This Article examines two principles that settle temporal and jurisdictional conflicts between evidentiary rules: the trial-time principle and the forum principle. Under the trial-time principle, evidentiary rules that exist at the time of the trial override rules that existed before trial when the relevant action or transaction took place. Under the forum principle, evidentiary rules of the court’s jurisdiction override rules applicable in the jurisdiction in which the relevant action or transaction took place. These principles control the application of rules categorized as strictly evidentiary, as opposed to substantive. The Article explains, criticizes and refines this categorization.
The Right To Silence Helps The Innocent: A Response To Critics, Alex Stein
The Right To Silence Helps The Innocent: A Response To Critics, Alex Stein
Alex Stein
This contribution to the Cardozo Law Review symposium on the future of the Fifth Amendment responds to the numerous critics of Daniel J. Seidmann & Alex Stein, The Right to Silence Helps the Innocent: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Fifth Amendment Privilege, 114 HARV. L. REV. 430 (2000).
Under Seidmann and Stein’s theory, the right to silence protects innocents who find themselves unable to corroborate their self-exonerating accounts by verifiable evidence. Absent the right, guilty criminals would pool with innocents by making false self-exonerating statements. Factfinders would consequently discount the probative value of all uncorroborated exculpatory statements, at the expense …
Torts And Innovation, Alex Stein, Gideon Parchomovsky
Torts And Innovation, Alex Stein, Gideon Parchomovsky
Alex Stein
This Essay exposes and analyzes a hitherto overlooked cost of the current design of tort law: its adverse effect on innovation. Tort liability for negligence, defective products, and medical malpractice is determined by reference to custom. We demonstrate that courts’ reliance on custom and conventional technologies as the benchmark of liability chills innovation and distorts its path. Specifically, the recourse to custom taxes innovators and subsidizes replicators of conventional technologies. We explore the causes and consequences of this phenomenon and propose two possible ways to modify tort law in order to make it more welcoming to innovation.