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Articles 1 - 17 of 17
Full-Text Articles in Criminal Law
An Offer You Can't Refuse? Punishment Without Trial In Italy And The United States: The Search For Truth And An Efficient Criminal Justice System, Rachel A. Van Cleave
An Offer You Can't Refuse? Punishment Without Trial In Italy And The United States: The Search For Truth And An Efficient Criminal Justice System, Rachel A. Van Cleave
Publications
This Article compares the steps taken by Italy and the United States to reconcile the need for an efficient criminal justice system on the one hand, and the desire to achieve justice or discover the truth on the other. Plea bargaining in the United States has a significant history and has generated a substantial amount of literature critical of the device as violative of a criminal defendant's constitutional rights, particularly the right to be tried by a jury of one's peers. In addition, scholars have criticized the distortive effect of plea bargaining on the roles of the prosecutor, judge, and …
Lynching Ethics: Toward A Theory Of Racialized Defenses, Anthony V. Alfieri
Lynching Ethics: Toward A Theory Of Racialized Defenses, Anthony V. Alfieri
Michigan Law Review
So much depends upon a rope in Mobile, Alabama. To hang Michael Donald, Henry Hays and James "Tiger" Knowles tied up "a piece of nylon rope about twenty feet long, yellow nylon." They borrowed the rope from Frank Cox, Hays's brother-in-law. Cox "went out in the back" of his mother's "boatshed, or something like that, maybe it was in the lodge." He "got a rope," climbed into the front seat of Hays's Buick Wildcat, and handed it to Knowles sitting in the back seat. So much depends upon a noose. Knowles "made a hangman's noose out of the rope," thirteen …
Undead Laws: The Use Of Historically Unenforced Criminal Statutes In Non-Criminal Litigation, Hillary Greene
Undead Laws: The Use Of Historically Unenforced Criminal Statutes In Non-Criminal Litigation, Hillary Greene
Faculty Articles and Papers
Long after criminal laws have lost their vigor in the context for which they were drafted, they may rise again elsewhere. The American legal system has yet to develop a coherent policy delineating when or if historically unenforced penal statutes can be invoked in non-penal contexts. This issue is particularly evident in cases where the relevant laws are caught between shifting moral sentiments. Fornication, for example, remains illegal in many states,' but it is rarely prosecuted. Should one of the participants in this criminal act contract a sexually transmitted disease and sue her partner in tort, however, these disused statutes …
Once A Rapist? Motivational Evidence And Relevancy In Rape Law, Katharine K. Baker
Once A Rapist? Motivational Evidence And Relevancy In Rape Law, Katharine K. Baker
Katharine K. Baker
Feminist scholars and activists have long sought to reform rape laws and evidence rules in order to increase the number of successful rape prosecutions in the United States. In partial response to these efforts, and in an effort to decrease crime, the 104th Congress amended the Federal Rules of Evidence by adding Rule 413, which makes prior acts of sexual assault by alleged rapists admissible in criminal sexual assault cases. The new Rule 413 was meant to level the legal playing field between rapists and their accusers. Professor Baker argues that the new Rule is misguided because it fails to …
Reflections On A Quarter-Century Of Constitutional Regulation Of Capital Punishment, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 399 (1997), Joseph Bessetre, Stephen Bright, George Kendall, William Kunkle, Carol Steiker, Jordan Steiker
Reflections On A Quarter-Century Of Constitutional Regulation Of Capital Punishment, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 399 (1997), Joseph Bessetre, Stephen Bright, George Kendall, William Kunkle, Carol Steiker, Jordan Steiker
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Race-Based Jury Nullification: Rebuttal (Part A), 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 923 (1997), Andrew D. Leipold
Race-Based Jury Nullification: Rebuttal (Part A), 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 923 (1997), Andrew D. Leipold
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Feeling Violated: Seventh Circuit Puts The Squeeze On Fourth Amendment Rights Of Bus Travelers, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 245 (1997), Andrew J. Purcell
Feeling Violated: Seventh Circuit Puts The Squeeze On Fourth Amendment Rights Of Bus Travelers, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 245 (1997), Andrew J. Purcell
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Ex Post Facto Laws: Supreme Court New York County People V. Griffin (Decided December 5, 1996
Ex Post Facto Laws: Supreme Court New York County People V. Griffin (Decided December 5, 1996
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Gacy V. Dahmer: An Informed Response, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 331 (1997), William J. Kunkle Jr.
Gacy V. Dahmer: An Informed Response, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 331 (1997), William J. Kunkle Jr.
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Habeas Corpus And The New Federalism After The Anti-Terrorism And Effective Death Penalty Act Of 1996, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 337 (1997), Marshall J. Hartman, Jeanette Nyden
Habeas Corpus And The New Federalism After The Anti-Terrorism And Effective Death Penalty Act Of 1996, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 337 (1997), Marshall J. Hartman, Jeanette Nyden
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Post-Verdict Interviews: The Key To Understanding The Decision Behind The Verdict, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 507 (1997), Christine J. Iversen
Post-Verdict Interviews: The Key To Understanding The Decision Behind The Verdict, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 507 (1997), Christine J. Iversen
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
This Is Who Will Die When Doctors Are Allowed To Kill Their Patients, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 95 (1997), Michael Mcgonnigal
This Is Who Will Die When Doctors Are Allowed To Kill Their Patients, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 95 (1997), Michael Mcgonnigal
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Bomb Thief And The Theory Of Justification, Paul H. Robinson
The Bomb Thief And The Theory Of Justification, Paul H. Robinson
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Utility Of Desert, Paul H. Robinson, John M. Darley
The Utility Of Desert, Paul H. Robinson, John M. Darley
All Faculty Scholarship
The article takes up the debate between utility and desert as distributive principles for criminal liability and punishment and concludes that a utilitarian analysis that takes account of all costs and benefits will support the distribution of liability and punishment according to desert, or at least according to the principles of desert as perceived by the community. It reaches this conclusion after an examination of a variety of recent social science data. On the one hand, it finds the traditional utilitarian theories of deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation to have little effect in many instances. It finds instead that the real …
Reforming The Federal Criminal Code: A Top Ten List, Paul H. Robinson
Reforming The Federal Criminal Code: A Top Ten List, Paul H. Robinson
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Making Constitutional Doctrine In A Realist Age, Victoria Nourse
Making Constitutional Doctrine In A Realist Age, Victoria Nourse
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In this article the author considers three examples of modern constitutional doctrine that show how judges have stolen bits and pieces from popularized skepticisms about the job of judging and have molded this stolen rhetoric into doctrine. In the first example, she asks whether constitutional law's recent penchant for doctrinal rules based on "clear law" could have existed without the modern age's obsession with legal uncertainty. In the second, the author considers whether our contemporary rhetoric of constitutional "interests" and "expectations" reflects modern critiques of doctrine as failing to address social needs. In the third, she asks how an offhand …
Embracing The Tar Baby: Latcrit Theory And The Sticky Mess Of Race, Angela P. Harris, Leslie Espinoza
Embracing The Tar Baby: Latcrit Theory And The Sticky Mess Of Race, Angela P. Harris, Leslie Espinoza
Angela P Harris
No abstract provided.