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Quieting Cognitive Bias With Standards For Witness Communications, Melanie Wilson Jan 2011

Quieting Cognitive Bias With Standards For Witness Communications, Melanie Wilson

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Last year, as part of a project to revise the ABA Criminal Justice Standards for Prosecution and Defense Functions, the ABA Criminal Justice Section initiated round-table discussions with prosecutors, criminal defense lawyers, and academics throughout the United States. The Standards under review provide aspirational guidance for all criminal law practitioners. This Article stems from the Criminal Justice Section's undertaking. It considers the wording, scope, and propriety of several of the proposed changes that address lawyer-witness communications. It begins with a discussion of the effects of cognitive bias on these communications and explains why carefully tailored standards may lessen the detrimental …


Supreme Court Criminal Law Jurisprudence - October 2008 Term, Richard Klein Jan 2010

Supreme Court Criminal Law Jurisprudence - October 2008 Term, Richard Klein

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Toward A History Of Children As Witnesses, David S. Tanenhaus, William Bush Jan 2007

Toward A History Of Children As Witnesses, David S. Tanenhaus, William Bush

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This brief essay offers a selective overview of recent trends in the historical scholarship on American childhood from the origins of the American Revolution to the early years of the Cold War. This overview of the literature has two purposes. First, it highlights recent socio-cultural scholarship that presents substantive challenges to the conventional ways of understanding the history of children and the law. Second, in so doing, it points out that legal histories concerned solely with doctrinal matters can, and often do, present a limited and distorted window into the past. Instead, the essay argues that the place of children, …


The Detention Of Material Witnesses And The Fourth Amendment, Joseph G. Cook Jan 2006

The Detention Of Material Witnesses And The Fourth Amendment, Joseph G. Cook

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The Admissibility Of Hypnotically Enhanced Testimony In Criminal Trials, Gary Shaw Oct 1991

The Admissibility Of Hypnotically Enhanced Testimony In Criminal Trials, Gary Shaw

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