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Full-Text Articles in Criminal Law
Second Chances In Criminal And Immigration Law, Ingrid V. Eagly
Second Chances In Criminal And Immigration Law, Ingrid V. Eagly
Indiana Law Journal
This Essay publishes the remarks given by Professor Ingrid Eagly at the 2022 Fuchs Lecture at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. The Fuchs Lecture was established in honor of Ralph Follen Fuchs in 2001. Professor Fuchs, who served on the Indiana University law faculty from 1946 until his retirement in 1970, was awarded the title of university professor in recognition of his scholarship, teaching, and public service. In her Fuchs lecture, Professor Eagly explores the growing bipartisan consensus behind “second chance” reforms in the state and federal criminal legal systems. These incremental reforms acknowledge racial bias, correct for past …
Enhanced Public Defense Improves Pretrial Outcomes And Reduces Racial Disparities, Paul Heaton
Enhanced Public Defense Improves Pretrial Outcomes And Reduces Racial Disparities, Paul Heaton
Indiana Law Journal
Numerous jurisdictions are working to reform pretrial processes to reduce or eliminate money bail and decrease pretrial detention. Although reforms such as the abandonment of bail schedules or adoption of actuarial risk assessment tools have been widely enacted, the role of defense counsel in the pretrial process has received less attention.
This Article considers an approach to pretrial reform focused on improving the quality of defense counsel. In Philadelphia, a substantial fraction of people facing criminal charges are detained following rapid preliminary hearings where initial release conditions are set by bail magistrates operating with limited information. Beginning in 2017, the …
Rehabilitating Charge Bargaining, Nancy Combs
Rehabilitating Charge Bargaining, Nancy Combs
Indiana Law Journal
Nobody likes plea bargaining. Scholars worldwide have excoriated the practice, calling it coercive and unjust, among other pejorative adjectives. Despite its unpopularity, plea bargaining constitutes a central component of the American criminal justice system, and the United States has exported the practice to a host of countries worldwide. Indeed, plea bargaining has even appeared at international criminal tribunals, created to prosecute genocide and crimes against humanity—the gravest crimes known to humankind. Although all forms of plea bargaining are unpopular, commentators reserve their harshest criticism for charge bargaining because charge bargaining is said to distort the factual basis of the defendant’s …
Flipping The Script On Brady, Ion Meyn
Flipping The Script On Brady, Ion Meyn
Indiana Law Journal
Brady v. Maryland imposes a disclosure obligation on the prosecutor and, for this
reason, is understood to burden the prosecutor. This Article asks whether Brady also
benefits the prosecutor, and if so, how and to what extent does it accomplish this?
This Article first considers Brady’s structural impact—how the case influenced
broader dynamics of litigation. Before Brady, legislative reform transformed civil
and criminal litigation by providing pretrial information to civil defendants but not
to criminal defendants. Did this disparate treatment comport with due process?
Brady arguably answered this question by brokering a compromise: in exchange for
imposing minor obligations on …
Fictional Pleas, Thea Johnson
Fictional Pleas, Thea Johnson
Indiana Law Journal
A fictional plea is one in which a defendant pleads guilty to a crime he has not committed, with the knowledge of the defense attorney, prosecutor, and judge. With fictional pleas, the plea of conviction is detached from the original factual allegations against the defendant. As criminal justice actors become increasingly troubled by the impact of collateral consequences on defendants, the fictional plea serves as an appealing response to this concern. It allows the parties to achieve parallel aims: the prosecutor holds the defendant accountable in the criminal system, while the defendant avoids devastating noncriminal consequences. In this context, the …
The Prison To Homelessness Pipeline: Criminal Record Checks, Race, And Disparate Impact, Valerie Schneider
The Prison To Homelessness Pipeline: Criminal Record Checks, Race, And Disparate Impact, Valerie Schneider
Indiana Law Journal
Study after study has shown that securing housing upon release from prison is critical to reducing the likelihood of recidivism,1 yet those with criminal records— a population that disproportionately consists of racial minorities—are routinely denied access to housing, even if their offense was minor and was shown to have no bearing on whether the applicant would be likely to be a successful renter. In April of 2016, the Office of General Counsel for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued much anticipated guidance dealing directly with the racially disparate impact of barring those with criminal records …
Conflicting Approaches To Addressing Ex-Offender Unemployment: The Work Opportunity Tax Credit And Ban The Box, Katherine English
Conflicting Approaches To Addressing Ex-Offender Unemployment: The Work Opportunity Tax Credit And Ban The Box, Katherine English
Indiana Law Journal
Each year, roughly 700,000 prisoners are released from their six-by-eight-foot cells and back into society. Sadly, though, many of these ex-prisoners are not truly free. Upon returning to society, they often encounter several challenges that prevent them from resuming a normal, reintegrated lifestyle. For many, the difficulties associated with reentry prove to be too much, and within a short three years of their release, two-thirds of ex-offenders are rearrested, reconvicted, and thrown back into the familiar six-by-eight-foot cell. Recidivism might appear to be entirely the exoffenders’ fault, but ex-offenders are not solely responsible for these recidivism rates or the solution …
Measuring The Creative Plea Bargin, Thea Johnson
Measuring The Creative Plea Bargin, Thea Johnson
Indiana Law Journal
A great deal of criminal law scholarship and practice turns on whether a defendant gets a good deal through plea bargaining. But what is a good deal? And how do defense attorneys secure such deals? Much scholarship measures plea bargains by one metric: how many years the defendant receives at sentencing. In the era of collateral consequences, however, this is no longer an adequate metric as it misses a world of bargaining that happens outside of the sentence. Through empirical re-search, this Article examines the measure of a good plea and the work that goes into negotiating such a plea. …
Method Of Attack: A Supplemental Model For Hate Crime Analysis, Angela D. Moore
Method Of Attack: A Supplemental Model For Hate Crime Analysis, Angela D. Moore
Indiana Law Journal
On October 28, 2009, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama. Two years later, between September and November of 2011, members of a Bergholz, Ohio, Amish community allegedly carried out five attacks in which they forcibly restrained, and cut the hair and beards of, members of other Amish communities. In September of 2012, a jury rendered a verdict in United States v. Mullet and found sixteen members of the Bergholz community—including Samuel Mullet, bishop of the community—guilty of HCPA violations. These were the first convictions for religion-based …
Are Indiana’S Newly Expunged Convictions Still Available For Impeachment?, Graham Polando
Are Indiana’S Newly Expunged Convictions Still Available For Impeachment?, Graham Polando
Indiana Law Journal
During trial, a litigant can, of course, impeach a witness with certain criminal convictions. However, Indiana Evidence Rule 609(c), like its federal counterpart, prohibits parties from introducing such evidence when “the conviction has been the subject of a pardon, annulment, certificate of rehabilitation, or other equivalent procedure based on a finding that the person has been rehabilitated . . . .” Indiana, however, has no procedure for annulment or certificates of rehabilitation—and, until recently, had nothing resembling one.
To some fanfare, the General Assembly has recently enacted an expungement provision. As courts begin to grant these expungements, it is only …
Fulfilling The Promise Of Payne: Creating Participatory Opportunities For Survivors In Capital Cases, Megan A. Mullett
Fulfilling The Promise Of Payne: Creating Participatory Opportunities For Survivors In Capital Cases, Megan A. Mullett
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Invisible Pillar Of Gideon, Adam M. Gershowitz
The Invisible Pillar Of Gideon, Adam M. Gershowitz
Indiana Law Journal
In 1996, the State of South Carolina charged Larry McVay with common-law robbery. McVay, who was employed part-time and took home less than $160 per week after taxes, claimed that after paying his basic living expenses he had no money left with which to hire an attorney. A South Carolina court disagreed and denied McVay's requestfor appointed counsel. ' Seven years later, Scott Peterson was arrested for the murder of his wife and unborn child in California. Although Peterson owned a home, drove an expensive SUV, and was carrying $10,000 in cash when he was captured, he claimed to be …
Factors For Reasonable Suspicion: When Black And Poor Means Stopped And Frisked, David A. Harris
Factors For Reasonable Suspicion: When Black And Poor Means Stopped And Frisked, David A. Harris
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Felony-Murder Doctrine Through The Federal Looking Glass, Henry S. Noyes
Felony-Murder Doctrine Through The Federal Looking Glass, Henry S. Noyes
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Reforming The Criminal Trial, Craig M. Bradley
Reforming The Criminal Trial, Craig M. Bradley
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Criminal Procedure In The Rehnquist Court: Has The Rehnquisition Begun?, Craig M. Bradley
Criminal Procedure In The Rehnquist Court: Has The Rehnquisition Begun?, Craig M. Bradley
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The "Good Faith Exception" Cases: Reasonable Exercises In Futility, Craig M. Bradley
The "Good Faith Exception" Cases: Reasonable Exercises In Futility, Craig M. Bradley
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Criminal Trials In Absentia: A Proposed Reform For Indiana, Myra L. Willis
Criminal Trials In Absentia: A Proposed Reform For Indiana, Myra L. Willis
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
An Application Of Double Jeopardy And Collateral Estoppel Principles To Successive Prison Disciplinary And Criminal Prosecutions, Joseph S. Colussi
An Application Of Double Jeopardy And Collateral Estoppel Principles To Successive Prison Disciplinary And Criminal Prosecutions, Joseph S. Colussi
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Criminal Justice Act - 1964 To 1976, Dudley B. Bonsal
The Criminal Justice Act - 1964 To 1976, Dudley B. Bonsal
Indiana Law Journal
Colloquium: The Federal Judiciary: Essays from the Bench
Chamber V. Maroney: New Dimensions In The Law Of Search And Seizure, Stephen H. Paul
Chamber V. Maroney: New Dimensions In The Law Of Search And Seizure, Stephen H. Paul
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Some Observations On Waiver In Indiana Criminal Appeals: The Substantial Re-Adoption Of Rule 1-14b In Trial Rule 59, Francis X. Mccloskey
Some Observations On Waiver In Indiana Criminal Appeals: The Substantial Re-Adoption Of Rule 1-14b In Trial Rule 59, Francis X. Mccloskey
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Limits Of The Criminal Sanction, By Herbert L. Packer, Roger B. Dworkin
The Limits Of The Criminal Sanction, By Herbert L. Packer, Roger B. Dworkin
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Arrest: The Decision To Take A Suspect Into Custody, By Wayne La Fave, Donald L.A. Kerson
Arrest: The Decision To Take A Suspect Into Custody, By Wayne La Fave, Donald L.A. Kerson
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Law And Tactics In Federal Criminal Cases, Edited By George W. Shadoan, David W. Mernitz
Law And Tactics In Federal Criminal Cases, Edited By George W. Shadoan, David W. Mernitz
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Recent Extensions Of Felony Murder Rule
Nonfeasance: A Threat To The Prosecutors' Discretion
Nonfeasance: A Threat To The Prosecutors' Discretion
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Federal Control Over Use Of Coerced Confessions In State Criminal Cases-Some Unsettled Problems, Austin W. Scott Jr.
Federal Control Over Use Of Coerced Confessions In State Criminal Cases-Some Unsettled Problems, Austin W. Scott Jr.
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Habeas Corpus And Coram Nobis In Indiana
Criminal Processes And Habeas Corpus: A Remedy In The Federal Courts
Criminal Processes And Habeas Corpus: A Remedy In The Federal Courts
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.