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Full-Text Articles in Law
Surprise Symphony: The Supreme Court’S Major Criminal Law Rulings Of The 2002 Term, William E. Hellerstein
Surprise Symphony: The Supreme Court’S Major Criminal Law Rulings Of The 2002 Term, William E. Hellerstein
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Appellate Division, Fourth Department, People V. Cortes, Jennifer Feldman
Appellate Division, Fourth Department, People V. Cortes, Jennifer Feldman
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Year To Remember: The Supreme Court's Fourth, Fifth, And Sixth Amendment Jurisprudence For The 2003 Term, William E. Hellerstein
A Year To Remember: The Supreme Court's Fourth, Fifth, And Sixth Amendment Jurisprudence For The 2003 Term, William E. Hellerstein
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Bringing Coherence To Mens Rea Analysis For Securities-Related Offenses, Michael L. Seigel
Bringing Coherence To Mens Rea Analysis For Securities-Related Offenses, Michael L. Seigel
Michael L Seigel
This Article has demonstrated that the failure of commentators and the courts to tackle mens rea analysis head-on has resulted in lasting incoherence in the law. Unintelligible legal doctrine does not simply upset individuals who strive for elegant solutions to legal problems; it also exacts a huge, real-life toll. Juries faced with incoherent legal instructions are likely to become disillusioned about the justice system. Citizens receive inadequate guidance as to acceptable and unacceptable behavior, hampering deterrence -- particularly in the securities-law arena, where one presumably finds mostly rational actors who would be deterred by clear legal rules. Securities regulation is …
Admissibility Of Co-Conspirator Statements In A Post-Crawford World, Michael L. Seigel, Daniel Weisman
Admissibility Of Co-Conspirator Statements In A Post-Crawford World, Michael L. Seigel, Daniel Weisman
Michael L Seigel
This Article takes the position that co-conspirator statements must be examined on a case-by-case basis to determine whether they are testimonial and thus subject to exclusion under the Confrontation Clause. Further, in light of the fact that the author of the majority opinions in Crawford and Davis was Justice Antonin Scalia, this Article examines whether interpreting the Sixth Amendment as a bar to the admission of certain coconspirator statements would violate an originalist interpretation of that provision. The conclusion reached is that it would not. In the current era of ever-narrowing rights for criminal defendants, reaffirming the law's commitment to …
The Original Meaning Of "Unusual": The Eighth Amendment As A Bar To Cruel Innovation, John F. Stinneford
The Original Meaning Of "Unusual": The Eighth Amendment As A Bar To Cruel Innovation, John F. Stinneford
John F. Stinneford
In recent years, both legal scholars and the American public have become aware that something is not quite right with the Supreme Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence. Legal commentators from across the spectrum have described the Court's treatment of the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause as "embarrassing," "ineffectual and incoherent," a "mess," and a "train wreck." The framers of the Bill of Rights understood the word "unusual" to mean "contrary to long usage." Recognition of the word's original meaning will precisely invert the "evolving standards of decency" test and ask the Court to compare challenged punishments with the longstanding principles and …
Punishment Without Culpability, John F. Stinneford
Punishment Without Culpability, John F. Stinneford
John F. Stinneford
For more than half a century, academic commentators have criticized the Supreme Court for failing to articulate a substantive constitutional conception of criminal law. Although the Court enforces various procedural protections that the Constitution provides for criminal defendants, it has left the question of what a crime is purely to the discretion of the legislature. This failure has permitted legislatures to evade the Constitution’s procedural protections by reclassifying crimes as civil causes of action, eliminating key elements (such as mens rea) or reclassifying them as defenses or sentencing factors, and authorizing severe punishments for crimes traditionally considered relatively minor. The …
The Linchpin Of Identification Evidence: The Unreliability Of Eyewitnesses And The Need For Reform In West Virginia, Jared T. Dotson
The Linchpin Of Identification Evidence: The Unreliability Of Eyewitnesses And The Need For Reform In West Virginia, Jared T. Dotson
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Shadow Trial: Prosecutors In Ferguson Violated Our Right To An Open Criminal Justice System, Sonja R. West, Dahlia Lithwick
Shadow Trial: Prosecutors In Ferguson Violated Our Right To An Open Criminal Justice System, Sonja R. West, Dahlia Lithwick
Popular Media
St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch’s decision to “open up” the grand jury proceedings by including massive amounts of testimony and evidence has been decried as “highly unusual,” “deeply unfair,” and evidence that police officer Darren Wilson received “special treatment.” McCulloch’s move to include a good deal of exculpatory evidence and testimony led to a three-month, closed-door proceeding that included 70 hours of testimony, including 60 witnesses and three medical examiners. The breadth of the evidence presented to the grand jury has led many to declare that it turned the entire proceeding into something that walks and quacks an awful …
Full Legal Representation For The Poor: The Clash Between Lawyer Values And Client Worthiness, Michelle S. Jacobs
Full Legal Representation For The Poor: The Clash Between Lawyer Values And Client Worthiness, Michelle S. Jacobs
Michelle S Jacobs
This article seeks to expand the scope of our understanding of values and their connection to the work of poverty lawyers. The article explores the literature on poverty and moral worthiness. In order to bring clarity to the discussion, it examines social science research on defining "values" and detailing how they can affect behavior. Prof. Jacobs describes the reactions of clinical students to a classroom exercise, which asked them to describe the legal representation they would provide to hypothetical clients. This article describes how the link between students' values and broader societal beliefs affect the practices of the bar and …
Piercing The Prison Uniform Of Invisibility For Black Female Inmates, Michelle S. Jacobs
Piercing The Prison Uniform Of Invisibility For Black Female Inmates, Michelle S. Jacobs
Michelle S Jacobs
In Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women In Prison, Professor Paula Johnson has written about the most invisible of incarcerated women — incarcerated African American women. The number of women incarcerated in the United States increased by seventy-five percent between 1986 and 1991. Of these women, a disproportionate number are black women. The percentages vary by region and by the nature of institution (county jail, state prison or federal facility), but the bottom line remains the same. In every instance, black women are incarcerated at rates disproportionate to their percentage in the general population. In Inner Lives, Professor Johnson …
Excuses, Justifications, And Duress At The International Criminal Tribunals, Noam Wiener
Excuses, Justifications, And Duress At The International Criminal Tribunals, Noam Wiener
Pace International Law Review
This article examines the application of the defense of duress by international criminal tribunals through analyzing opposing theoretical approaches to justifications and excuses. The purpose of this examination is twofold. First, the article offers a framework for duress’s application by examining scholarly approaches to duress and by analyzing the application of the defense by international tribunals. This analysis includes the tribunals constituted following the Second World War and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Second, the article provides insight into the underlying rationales that guide judges at the international tribunals in the last decade through the judges’ application …
People V. Coughlin And Criticisms Of The Criminal Jury In Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago, Elizabeth Dale
People V. Coughlin And Criticisms Of The Criminal Jury In Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago, Elizabeth Dale
Elizabeth Dale
The last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century are typically characterized as the era in which the criminal jury trial came to an end. Although criminal juries did not completely disappear, their role became smaller and smaller across that time frame. Most studies of this phenomenon attribute that decline to the rise of plea bargains in that same period. Specifically, these studies lead to the conclusion that institutional factors, such as case loads and the political pressure on elected prosecutors to be "tough on crime," made plea bargains an increasingly attractive option for …
New Explorations In Culture And Crime: Definitions, Theory, Method, Kenneth B. Nunn
New Explorations In Culture And Crime: Definitions, Theory, Method, Kenneth B. Nunn
Kenneth B. Nunn
Culture affects criminal law in at least two key ways. First, culture and crime symbiotically define each other. Second, culture helps explain which courtroom narratives will be successful, and which will not. Culture influences who will be arrested, charged, convicted, and what sentence they will receive. Indeed, the invisible hand of culture drives the process of criminalization and helps to determine which acts we will sanction through criminal statutes.
United States V. Erwin And The Folly Of Intertwined Cooperation And Plea Agreements, Kevin Bennardo
United States V. Erwin And The Folly Of Intertwined Cooperation And Plea Agreements, Kevin Bennardo
Washington and Lee Law Review Online
Cooperation agreements and plea agreements are separate and independent promises by criminal defendants to: (1) assist the Government in the prosecution of another person and (2) plead guilty. A defendant’s breach of one should not affect the Government’s obligation to perform under the other. All too often, however, these agreements are inappropriately intertwined so that a minor breach of the plea agreement relieves the Government of its obligation to move for a downward sentencing departure in recognition of the defendant’s substantial assistance. This intertwining undermines sentencing policy as set forth in the federal sentencing statute. Thus, a district court should …
Book Review Of Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, And Rights In The City-States, And Democratic Courtrooms, By Judith Resnik And Dennis Curtis, Amy Widman
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
Time To Unpack The Juggernaut?: Reflections On The Canadian Federal Parliamentary Debates On "Cyberbullying", Jane Bailey
Time To Unpack The Juggernaut?: Reflections On The Canadian Federal Parliamentary Debates On "Cyberbullying", Jane Bailey
Dalhousie Law Journal
Cyberbullying has come to the fore in federal parliamentary debate largely in the last two years in tandem with high profile media reporting of several teen suicides. The government responded with the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act that incorporates, among other things, criminal law responses to nonconsensual distribution of intimate images and gender-based hate propagation, but only at the expense of expanded state surveillance. However, a review of the parliamentary debates reveals a richer array of approaches in which the efficacy of criminal law responses was contested. This article reports on the diversity of viewpoints that emerged within the …
Combating Cyber-Victimization, Jacqueline D. Lipton
Combating Cyber-Victimization, Jacqueline D. Lipton
Akron Law Faculty Publications
In today’s interconnected society, high profile examples of online victimization abound. Cyber-bullies, stalkers and harassers launch attacks on the less powerful, causing a variety of harms. Recent scholarship has identified some of the more salient damage, including reputational harms, severe emotional distress, loss of employment, and physical assault. Extreme cases of online abuse have resulted in death through suicide or as a result of targeted attacks. This article makes two major contributions to the cyber-victimization literature. It proposes specific reforms to criminal and tort laws to address this conduct more effectively. Further, it situates those reforms within a new multi-modal …
Panel On Federalism In Practice -- National And Local Perspectives On States' Use Of Criminal Law To Regulate Undocumented Or Unauthorized Migration, Raymond T. Diamond, Ingrid Eagly, Hiroko Kusuda
Panel On Federalism In Practice -- National And Local Perspectives On States' Use Of Criminal Law To Regulate Undocumented Or Unauthorized Migration, Raymond T. Diamond, Ingrid Eagly, Hiroko Kusuda
Raymond T. Diamond
No abstract provided.
Condemned By Substance And Process: A Comment On "Doubly Condemned": Adjustments To The Crime And Punishment Regime In The Late Slavery Period In The British Caribbean Colonies And "Under The Present Mode Of Trial, Improper Verdicts Are Very Often Given": Criminal Procedure In The Trials Of Slaves In Antebellum Louisiana, Raymond Diamond
Raymond T. Diamond
No abstract provided.
Advice For Ferguson From The Supreme Court, Sonja R. West, Dahlia Lithwick
Advice For Ferguson From The Supreme Court, Sonja R. West, Dahlia Lithwick
Popular Media
This article looks at the factors regarding protestors and counselors set forth in the Supreme Court's decision in McCullen v. Coakley and puts them in the Ferguson, Missouri context.
The Future Of Sex Offense Courts: How Expanding Specialized Sex Offense Courts Can Help Reduce Recidivism And Improve Victim Reporting, Catharine Richmond, Melissa Richmond
The Future Of Sex Offense Courts: How Expanding Specialized Sex Offense Courts Can Help Reduce Recidivism And Improve Victim Reporting, Catharine Richmond, Melissa Richmond
Catharine Richmond
Specialty sex offense courts are a nascent judicial innovation that seek to improve general public safety through reducing recidivism. Decreased recidivism results from swifter, personalized, experienced, and consistent judicial action that encourages sex offenders to take more responsibility and seek rehabilitative assistance. In these specialized courts, communities of stakeholders work collaboratively to prevent future crime. Although somewhat counterintuitive, specialty courts that offer such intensive and specific attention are often more cost effective and efficient than their traditional counterparts. This Note argues that sex offense courts should be expanded beyond the handful of jurisdictions where they currently exist, not only to …
Two Models Of "Absence Of Movement" In Criminal Jurisprudence, Roni M. Rosenberg
Two Models Of "Absence Of Movement" In Criminal Jurisprudence, Roni M. Rosenberg
Roni M Rosenberg
ABSTRACTThe distinction between act and omission is deeply embedded in our legal thinking. In criminal jurisprudence, in order to convict someone of committing an act that caused harm, any act will suffice .On the other hand, to convict based on an omission that caused harm it is necessary to identify a duty to act on the part of the defendant, such that breach of that duty caused the harm.The generally accepted approach in criminal jurisprudence is to define act and omission under the bodily movement test. This essay critiques that approach and points to the fact that American jurisprudence is …
Is There A Remedy For The Irrelevance Of Academic Criminal Law?, Franklin E. Zimring
Is There A Remedy For The Irrelevance Of Academic Criminal Law?, Franklin E. Zimring
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
Teaching The Wire: Integrating Capstone Policy Content Into The Criminal Law Curriculum, Roger Fairfax
Teaching The Wire: Integrating Capstone Policy Content Into The Criminal Law Curriculum, Roger Fairfax
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
When I first proposed teaching a seminar on The Wire at the George Washington University Law School in 2010, I encountered very disparate reactions. Those unfamiliar with the show generally wondered whether the law school curriculum was any place for a course with the name of a popular television drama in the title. Those who had heard glowing things about, but had not seen, The Wire typically professed their intention to watch the show but shared the skepticism of the former group on its suitability as the focus of a law school course. Finally, those who had viewed the series …
Teaching Fiction?: The Wire As A Pedagological Tool In The Examination Of Punishment Theory, Kristin Henning
Teaching Fiction?: The Wire As A Pedagological Tool In The Examination Of Punishment Theory, Kristin Henning
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
Severing Ties: The Case For Indefinite Orders Of Protection For Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Kelly M. Driscoll
Severing Ties: The Case For Indefinite Orders Of Protection For Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Kelly M. Driscoll
Montana Law Review
Severing Ties: The Case For Indefinite Orders Of Protection For Survivors Of Domestic Violence
The Shame Game: Montana's Right To Privacy For Level 1 Sex Offenders, Johnna Preble
The Shame Game: Montana's Right To Privacy For Level 1 Sex Offenders, Johnna Preble
Montana Law Review
The Shame Game: Montana's Right To Privacy For Level 1 Sex Offenders
The Pedagogy Of Rape Law: Objectivity, Identity And Emotion, Jennifer M. Denbow
The Pedagogy Of Rape Law: Objectivity, Identity And Emotion, Jennifer M. Denbow
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
The Experiential Sabbatical, Martin H. Pritikin
The Experiential Sabbatical, Martin H. Pritikin
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.