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Reporter’S Draft For The Working Group On Principles To Use When Considering The Federalization Of Criminal Law, Sara Sun Beale
Reporter’S Draft For The Working Group On Principles To Use When Considering The Federalization Of Criminal Law, Sara Sun Beale
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Too Many And Yet Too Few: New Principles To Define The Proper Limits For Federal Criminal Jurisdiction, Sara Sun Beale
Too Many And Yet Too Few: New Principles To Define The Proper Limits For Federal Criminal Jurisdiction, Sara Sun Beale
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Imagery And Adjudication In The Criminal Law: The Relationship Between Images Of Criminal Defendants And Ideologies Of Criminal Law In Southern Antebellum And Modern Appellate Decisions, Bernard Harcourt
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Criminal law opinions often project a distinct image of the accused. Sometimes, she is cast in a sympathetic light and may appear vulnerable or impressionable: a single mother, whose husband has died, struggling to raise her two, loving children; an impoverished, nineteen-year-old African-American with a fifth-grade education, "mentally dull and 'slow to learn;'" or a defenseless "obedient servant," protecting himself from an "adversary armed with a deadly weapon." On other occasions, the defendant may appear threatening, savage or even diabolical: a cold-blooded recidivist that escapes from a prison workcrew, brutally stabs, rapes and murders a woman, and returns for a …