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Criminal Procedure Searches And Seizures: Provide Extraordinary Appeals And Motions For New Trial Based On Request For Dna Testing And Analysis; Establish Procedure For Preservation Of Evidence, Melissa Rife
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act provides the procedure for post-conviction DNA testing through an extraordinary motion for a new trial in serious violent felonies. The Act amends the Victim's Bill of Rights to require victim notification of extraordinary motions by the defendant. The Act also provides the standards, limitations, and conditions for the testing. The Act allows the State to appeal all extraordinary motions for new trial. In addition, the Act provides the standards for retention of evidence by court-appointed custodians.
Continuity On The Court: The Rehnquist Court’S Free Speech Cases, Alan J. Howard
Continuity On The Court: The Rehnquist Court’S Free Speech Cases, Alan J. Howard
Saint Louis University Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The International Criminal Court, National Security, And Compliance With International Law, James C. Kraska
The International Criminal Court, National Security, And Compliance With International Law, James C. Kraska
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
Thank you, Mark, for your kind introduction. The question before the panel today is whether the United States, actions regarding national security over the last year or so are in harmony with international law, or, in the alternative, are the United States, policies on a collision course with international law.
A Change For The Better: An Inside Look To The Judicial Reform Of The Dominican Republic, Ingrid Suarez
A Change For The Better: An Inside Look To The Judicial Reform Of The Dominican Republic, Ingrid Suarez
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
A president above the law. A Legislature that would pass any law, without regard for the impact on its citizens.
Judicial Independence In Family Courts, Barbara A. Babb, Judith D. Moran
Judicial Independence In Family Courts, Barbara A. Babb, Judith D. Moran
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Destruction Of Documents Before Proceedings Commence: What Is A Court To Do?, Camille Cameron, Jonathan Liberman
Destruction Of Documents Before Proceedings Commence: What Is A Court To Do?, Camille Cameron, Jonathan Liberman
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
The effective performance by courts of their adjudicative role depends on the availability of relevant evidence. In civil proceedings, the discovery process aims to ensure that such evidence is available. If documents that would be relevant evidence in a trial are destroyed, a fair adjudication is made difficult, if not impossible. This is so whether the destruction of documents occurs before or after proceedings commence. This article asks what a trial judge should do in a situation where relevant evidence is unavailable because one of the parties has destroyed documents before the proceedings commenced but anticipating that such proceedings were …
Book Review, David S. Tanenhaus
Book Review, David S. Tanenhaus
Scholarly Works
This concise book explores the origins and early history of the Cook County Juvenile Court, the world’s first such court. The court, which opened on July 3, 1899, in Chicago, reflected its founders’ profound faith both in science to solve social problems and the power of the state to provide for the best interests of its children. Yet, as Getis argues, the juvenile court did not live up to its initial promise, and “instead of a place of experimentation and reform—which it could have been—or a place of individualized justice guided by science—perhaps an unattainable goal—the court became an institution …