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Criminal Law: Incompatible Approaches To Interpreters’ Translations: Protecting Defendants’ Right To Confront — State V. Lopez-Ramos, 929 N.W.2d 414 (Minn. 2019)., Alicia Neumann Jan 2021

Criminal Law: Incompatible Approaches To Interpreters’ Translations: Protecting Defendants’ Right To Confront — State V. Lopez-Ramos, 929 N.W.2d 414 (Minn. 2019)., Alicia Neumann

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

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Limiting A Driver’S Limited Right To Counsel In Dwi Proceedings: State V. Rosenbush, 931 N.W.2d 91 (Minn. 2019), Lisa Perunovich Jan 2020

Limiting A Driver’S Limited Right To Counsel In Dwi Proceedings: State V. Rosenbush, 931 N.W.2d 91 (Minn. 2019), Lisa Perunovich

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

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The Application Of Mercy: Equal Treatment For All Youth Who Commit Sex Offenses, Jennica Janssen, David Dematteo Jan 2020

The Application Of Mercy: Equal Treatment For All Youth Who Commit Sex Offenses, Jennica Janssen, David Dematteo

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

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Minnesota's Rape Shield Law: A Sword For Prosecutors; A Blow To Defendants' Constitutional Rights, Christina Zauhar, Trent Jonas Jan 2020

Minnesota's Rape Shield Law: A Sword For Prosecutors; A Blow To Defendants' Constitutional Rights, Christina Zauhar, Trent Jonas

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

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Contingent Rewards For Prosecutors?, Peter A. Joy, Kevin C. Mcmunigal Jan 2011

Contingent Rewards For Prosecutors?, Peter A. Joy, Kevin C. Mcmunigal

Faculty Publications

This column explores whether contingent reward plans for prosecutors are ethical. After weighing arguments in favor and against such plans, the column concludes that rewards for prosecutors contingent on trial convictions are unsound.


Respect And Resistance In Punishment Theory, Alice Ristroph Jan 2008

Respect And Resistance In Punishment Theory, Alice Ristroph

Studio for Law and Culture

Is it coherent to speak of a right to resist justified punishment? Thomas Hobbes thought so. This essay seeks first to (re)introduce Hobbes as a punishment theorist, and second to use Hobbes to examine what it means to respect the criminal even as we punish him. Hobbes is almost entirely neglected by scholars of criminal law, whose theoretical inquiries focus on liberal, rights-based accounts of retribution (often exemplified by Immanuel Kant) and claims of deterrence or other consequentialist benefits (elucidated, for example, by Jeremy Bentham). Writing before Kant or Bentham, Hobbes offered a fascinating account of punishment that will strike …


Equal Rights For Equal Rites?: Victim Allocution, Defendant Allocution, And The Crime Victims' Rights Act, Mary Margaret Giannini Nov 2007

Equal Rights For Equal Rites?: Victim Allocution, Defendant Allocution, And The Crime Victims' Rights Act, Mary Margaret Giannini

Mary Margaret - Giannini

The federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA) grants victims the right to be reasonably heard at sentencing. In the course of examining this right, courts and commentators have referenced the defendant’s analogous right of sentencing allocution as a model or benchmark for the victim’s sentencing right. However, beyond the invocation of the defendant’s corollary right, there has been little analysis of whether defendant allocution does in fact serve as a model for victim allocution. This piece examines with particularity how victim allocution under the CVRA is currently being practiced in the federal courts, and how that practice compares to defendant …


Equal Rights For Equal Rites?: Victim Allocution, Defendant Allocution, And The Crime Victims' Rights Act, Mary Margaret Giannini Nov 2007

Equal Rights For Equal Rites?: Victim Allocution, Defendant Allocution, And The Crime Victims' Rights Act, Mary Margaret Giannini

Mary Margaret Giannini

The federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA) grants victims the right to be reasonably heard at sentencing. In the course of examining this right, courts and commentators have referenced the defendant’s analogous right of sentencing allocution as a model or benchmark for the victim’s sentencing right. However, beyond the invocation of the defendant’s corollary right, there has been little analysis of whether defendant allocution does in fact serve as a model for victim allocution. This piece examines with particularity how victim allocution under the CVRA is currently being practiced in the federal courts, and how that practice compares to defendant …


Discovering Who We Are: An English Perspective On The Simpson Trial, William T. Pizzi Jan 1996

Discovering Who We Are: An English Perspective On The Simpson Trial, William T. Pizzi

Publications

No abstract provided.


Punishment And Procedure: A Different View Of The American Criminal Justice System, William T. Pizzi Jan 1996

Punishment And Procedure: A Different View Of The American Criminal Justice System, William T. Pizzi

Publications

No abstract provided.


The Sixth Amendment Lives! A Reply To Professor Jonakait, Craig M. Bradley Jan 1992

The Sixth Amendment Lives! A Reply To Professor Jonakait, Craig M. Bradley

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.