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Emerging Standards In Supreme Court Double Jeopardy Analysis, Clifford R. Ennico
Emerging Standards In Supreme Court Double Jeopardy Analysis, Clifford R. Ennico
Vanderbilt Law Review
The purposes of this Recent Development are as follows: to identify and evaluate recent modifications in the Court's double jeopardy analysis, to propose that the Court's 1977 Term double jeopardy standards dilute the double jeopardy protection previously afforded to criminal defendants, and to suggest that the Court should permit a broader scope of appellate review in double jeopardy cases.
Law And Disorder In Nineteenth-Century Kentucky, Robert M. Ireland
Law And Disorder In Nineteenth-Century Kentucky, Robert M. Ireland
Vanderbilt Law Review
Nineteenth-century Kentuckians responded paradoxically to their criminal justice system. Although they complained constantly about the inadequacies of their constabulary, they refused to appropriate funds necessary to establish more efficient police forces. And while they carped continually about the ineffectiveness and ineptitude of prosecutors, the slowness and timidity of judges, the permissiveness of juries, and the leniency of governors, they also expressed equal concern about the rights of the accused and the convicted. By their ambivalence, nineteenth-century Kentuckians reflected an internal conflict that historically has characterized the response of Americans to the problem of crime. A free and dynamic society inevitably …
Southern Violence-Regional Problem Or National Nemesis?: Legal Attitudes Toward Southern Homicide In Historical Perspective, Richard M. Brown
Southern Violence-Regional Problem Or National Nemesis?: Legal Attitudes Toward Southern Homicide In Historical Perspective, Richard M. Brown
Vanderbilt Law Review
Both inside and outside the South, was the law a cause of the high incidence of homicide, or was it an effect? It was probably more effect than cause, for despite the anti-homicide rigor of its supreme court, on the whole the incidence of killing in Alabama seems to have been no lower than elsewhere in the South. Thus, the conservative Alabama court apparently failed to stem not only the legal trend of the Americanization of the common law of homicide but also the trend of blood-letting in Alabama. In one way this is not surprising, for after all, the …
Foreword, James W. Ely, Terry Calvani
Foreword, James W. Ely, Terry Calvani
Vanderbilt Law Review
In the hope of giving some direction for a regional approach to the legal past of the South, Vanderbilt Law School, with the generous assistance of the University Research Council, sponsored a two-day Symposium on this important topic in the spring of 1978 and invited leading scholars to participate. Principal papers by Richard Maxwell Brown, Maxwell H. Bloomfield, Robert M. Ireland, A. E. Keir Nash, and Robert J. Haws and Michael V. Namorato discussed diverse aspects of southern legal history.
Comment: Southern Violence-Regional Problem Or National Nemesis?: Legal Attitudes Toward Southern Homicide In Historical Perspective, Dennis R. Nolan
Comment: Southern Violence-Regional Problem Or National Nemesis?: Legal Attitudes Toward Southern Homicide In Historical Perspective, Dennis R. Nolan
Vanderbilt Law Review
The preceding pages should indicate that Southern Violence is a disappointment to those of us whose expectations had been raised by Professor Brown's earlier works and to those who are interested in his stated topic. It is a thoroughly unfocused, loose collection of facts and incidents that will interest only those with a curiosity about Alabama's Chief Justice Stone or the Texas law of self-defense. The paper does contain several seeds of thought that might,if given adequate attention, grow into testable hypotheses. Those hypotheses will be hard to evaluate, but they are of immense importance because they concern the fundamental …