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Defending Defendants Charged With Drug Offenses (3 Volume Manual For Cook County Public Defender's Office), Richard Kling
Defending Defendants Charged With Drug Offenses (3 Volume Manual For Cook County Public Defender's Office), Richard Kling
Richard S. Kling
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Spelling Guilt Out Of A Record? Harmless-Error Review Of Conclusive Mandatory Presumptions And Elemental Misdescriptions, John M. Greabe
Spelling Guilt Out Of A Record? Harmless-Error Review Of Conclusive Mandatory Presumptions And Elemental Misdescriptions, John M. Greabe
John M Greabe
Part I of this Article summarizes the history of harmless-error review. Part II explains more fully the constitutional infirmities generated by conclusive mandatory presumptions and elemental misdescriptions, and demonstrates that the unique nature of these infirmities complicates the question of how courts should review them for harmlessness. It also examines the Supreme Court's attempts to answer the questions of whether, and how, conclusive mandatory presumptions and elemental misdescriptions should be reviewed for harmlessness. In so doing, it focuses particularly on how these attempts have been undermined by the Court's failure to take account of the structural rights undermined by these …