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Double Jeopardy And Multiple Punishment: Cutting The Gordian Knot, Anne Poulin Aug 2005

Double Jeopardy And Multiple Punishment: Cutting The Gordian Knot, Anne Poulin

Anne Poulin

Courts and commentators treat as axiomatic that the Double Jeopardy Clause protects against multiple punishment as well as reprosecution after acquittal and reprosecution after conviction. They struggle to define a double jeopardy jurisprudence that accommodates all three. By applying the same rules to both multiple punishment and successive prosecution, they undermine core double jeopardy protection. When a defendant claims multiple punishment, legislative will governs, and fragmentation of offenses is acceptable. Successive prosecution claims warrant greater protection. However, because courts apply the same rules to both issues, they inject legislative deference into successive prosecution analysis, reducing double jeopardy protection. Instead, protection …


Intercountry Adoption As Child Trafficking, David M. Smolin Jun 2005

Intercountry Adoption As Child Trafficking, David M. Smolin

David M. Smolin

This article analyzes when intercountry adoption constitutes a form of child trafficking, particularly under international law. The article reviews relevant Treaties on the subjects of slavery and human trafficking, as well as analyzing the problem of money and adoption within the domestic (United States) adoption system.


Rethinking Wolfenden: Prostitute-Use, Criminal Law, And Remote Harm, Michelle Dempsey May 2005

Rethinking Wolfenden: Prostitute-Use, Criminal Law, And Remote Harm, Michelle Dempsey

Michelle Madden Dempsey

This article critiques the Wolfenden Committee's conclusion that criminalising prostitute-use is inconsistent with the liberal harm principle. Section one evaluates recent empirical evidence challenging Wolfenden's assumptions regarding prostitution. Section two analyses the use of forced-prostitutes as a direct harm offence of rape. Section three presents a new approach to criminalising the conduct of prostitute-users, and sketches a prima facie case in favour of criminalising solicitation for prostitute-use as an abstract endangerment offence.


Belton Redux: Re-Evaluating Belton's Per Se Rule Governing The Search Of An Automobile Incident To An Arrest, David S. Rudstein Feb 2005

Belton Redux: Re-Evaluating Belton's Per Se Rule Governing The Search Of An Automobile Incident To An Arrest, David S. Rudstein

David S Rudstein

No abstract provided.


Agenda Setting, Issue Priorities, And Organizational Maintenance: The U.S. Supreme Court, 1955 To 1994, Jeff L. Yates, Andrew B. Whitford, William Gillespie Jan 2005

Agenda Setting, Issue Priorities, And Organizational Maintenance: The U.S. Supreme Court, 1955 To 1994, Jeff L. Yates, Andrew B. Whitford, William Gillespie

Jeff L Yates

In this study, we examine agenda setting by the U.S. Supreme Court, and ask the question of why the Court allocates more or less of its valuable agenda space to one policy issue over others. Our study environment is the policy issue composition of the Court's docket: the Court's attention to criminal justice policy issues relative to other issues. We model the Court's allocation of this agenda space as a function of internal organizational demands and external political signals. We find that this agenda responds to the issue priorities of the other branches of the federal government and the public. …


The Meaning Of Equality: Sexual Harassment, Stalking, And Provocation In Canada, Australia, And The United States, Caroline A. Forell Jan 2005

The Meaning Of Equality: Sexual Harassment, Stalking, And Provocation In Canada, Australia, And The United States, Caroline A. Forell

Caroline A Forell

Sexual harassment, stalking, and the criminal defense of provocation are three areas of law where the majority of injured parties are women and the majority of perpetrators are men. I examine how, in Canada, Australia, and the United States, two visions of gender equality, formal and substantive, have influenced the development of these areas.


The Rise And Fall Of Material Witness Detention In Nineteenth Century New York, Wesley M. Oliver Jan 2005

The Rise And Fall Of Material Witness Detention In Nineteenth Century New York, Wesley M. Oliver

Wesley M Oliver

No abstract provided.


The Fall Of The Confession Era, Kenworthey Bilz Jan 2005

The Fall Of The Confession Era, Kenworthey Bilz

Kenworthey Bilz

This book review-essay of Solan & Tiersma’s SPEAKING OF CRIME argues that with the advent of new technologies such as improvements in DNA identification, fMRI ‘lie detector’ tests, and the like, courts will rely less and less on confessions altogether, rendering obsolete much of the doctrine that currently surrounds linguistic interpretation (and other markers) of consent and coercion.


The Crime Drop And Racial Profiling: Toward An Empirical Jurisprudence Of Search And Seizure, Lawrence Rosenthal Dec 2004

The Crime Drop And Racial Profiling: Toward An Empirical Jurisprudence Of Search And Seizure, Lawrence Rosenthal

Lawrence Rosenthal

No abstract provided.


Subsidiarity, Federalism, And Federal Prosecution Of Street Crime, John F. Stinneford Dec 2004

Subsidiarity, Federalism, And Federal Prosecution Of Street Crime, John F. Stinneford

John F. Stinneford

No abstract provided.