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How To Make Better Sessions Judges: Appellate Review A Proposal To Reform Tennessee’S General Sessions Courts For The 21st Century, Willie Santana
How To Make Better Sessions Judges: Appellate Review A Proposal To Reform Tennessee’S General Sessions Courts For The 21st Century, Willie Santana
Lincoln Memorial University Law Review Archive
In the past several years, general sessions judges have made headlines for illegal behavior such as bribery, obstruction of justice and witness tampering, judicial ethics violations, obvious lapses of judgment, and even suspect and unconstitutional behavior. This misconduct from the bench hurts society’s trust in the judiciary, but the damage is not merely academic. Judicial misconduct also does very real and immediately applicable damage to the people directly involved in criminal cases: victims who may never see justice, and those accused of crimes whose very future depends on an impartial administration of justice. That is an unfortunate state of affairs …
Death Sentence: A Compendium Against Assailment, John F. Serafine
Death Sentence: A Compendium Against Assailment, John F. Serafine
Lincoln Memorial University Law Review Archive
Getting people to kill themselves is the oldest trick in the book. There ought to be a constitutional law against it. This Article proposes one.“Assailment” means asking, telling, or tempting a person under the age of eighteen to attempt or complete suicide. It also includes extorting or blackmailing a child into suicidal behavior. Such a law is necessary because of the skyrocketing rate of youth suicide. Death Sentence: A Compendium Against Assailment encourages lawmakers to enact an assailment statute. It further tells the stories of 41 completed youth suicides, 15 attempts, and 8 cases of suicidal ideation. The rigors of …