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The Supreme Court And The Incredible Shrinking Fourth Amendment, Bruce G. Berner Jan 1989

The Supreme Court And The Incredible Shrinking Fourth Amendment, Bruce G. Berner

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The Right To A Criminal Appeal In The People's Republic Of China, Margaret Y.K. Woo Jan 1989

The Right To A Criminal Appeal In The People's Republic Of China, Margaret Y.K. Woo

Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

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The Crime Victim’S "Right" To A Criminal Prosecution: A Proposed Model Statute For The Governance Of Private Criminal Prosecution, Peter L. Davis Jan 1989

The Crime Victim’S "Right" To A Criminal Prosecution: A Proposed Model Statute For The Governance Of Private Criminal Prosecution, Peter L. Davis

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The thesis of this article is that the public prosecutor should to have a monopoly on criminal prosecutions; some supplementary system of private criminal prosecution should be available. Two such systems, or models, currently exist in New York. The first model, available statewide, theoretically allows a complainant to initiate a non-felony criminal prosecution without any screening by a prosecutor or judge. This system is unwise, unworkable and illusory because it obscures the exercise of judicial discretion and focuses the court’s attention on the wrong issues, usually precluding the crime victim’s complaint. The second model, limited by statute to New York …