The Downfall Of Daniel Fitzpatrick: A Creative Short Story, 2023 University of Nebraska at Omaha
The Downfall Of Daniel Fitzpatrick: A Creative Short Story, Renee Horsley
Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects
Daniel grew up with humble beginnings in Starlight, Nebraska. His loving parents provided him and his four other siblings with as much as they could. Victoria grew up wealthy in a small town in Georgia but by fifth grade, Victoria would move to Starlight due to her father’s business proposition. Soon Daniel and Victoria’s worlds collided setting the way for the most epic and yet tragic love story to ever hit Starlight Nebraska. A creative short story that intertwines the disciplines of criminal justice, intergroup dialogue, psychology, and the law.
The Ambiguity Of Probable Cause And Its Contentious Application By Police, 2023 College of the Holy Cross
The Ambiguity Of Probable Cause And Its Contentious Application By Police, Dave Sainte-Luce
College Honors Program
It is well documented how our country’s Criminal Justice System has a history of targeting people of color. A lot of this contention is derived from police officers’ behavior when interacting with individuals, yet officers only act upon the laws and legal policies that grant them authority, including probable cause. My thesis addresses the question, how does the fluid and ambiguous nature of probable cause leave the door open for officers to disproportionately target people of color in the United States? While focusing on vehicle, person, and property searches, I first define probable cause, building an understanding of exactly what …
Arbitrariness And Accountability In Plea Bargaining, 2023 University of Mississippi
Arbitrariness And Accountability In Plea Bargaining, Emma Brewer
Honors Theses
Justice is supposed to be a consistent, fair ideal of our society. If an individual is going to face punishment, there should be reasons why they receive the punishment they do, and two people who commit similar offenses should be punished similarly. These societal ideals are also embraced by the legal profession. Unfortunately, the current practice of plea bargains creates potential problems for our ability to satisfy that ideal of justice. Prosecutors have significant discretion in offering plea bargains. This discretion opens the door for potential arbitrariness. One way for prosecutors to combat that arbitrariness is by having a structured …
Mass E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring As A Bail Condition, 2023 Texas A&M University School of Law
Mass E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring As A Bail Condition, Sara Zampierin
Faculty Scholarship
Over the past decade, the immigration and criminal legal systems have increasingly relied on electronic monitoring as a bail condition; hundreds of thousands of people live under this monitoring on any given day. Decisionmakers purport to impose these conditions to release more individuals from detention and to maintain control over individuals they perceive to pose some risk of flight or to public safety. But the data do not show that electronic monitoring successfully mitigates these risks or that it leads to fewer individuals in detention. Electronic monitoring also comes with severe restrictions on individual liberty and leads to harmful effects …
Contradiction Over The Application Of Corporate Liability In Corruption Court Decisions In Indonesia, 2023 *Universitas Indonesia
Contradiction Over The Application Of Corporate Liability In Corruption Court Decisions In Indonesia, Budi Suhariyanto, Cecep Mustafa
Indonesia Law Review
This paper presents and critically analyses the application of corporate criminal liability in the decisions of corruption crimes in Indonesia from 1999 to 2019. Of the seven corporate cases that have been prosecuted and convicted in this period. We identify 4 (four) corporate criminal liability models as follows. First, the corporation is accused, prosecuted, and convicted after the management has been convicted through a final and binding decision. Secondly, the corporation is excluded from the indictment but included in the sentencing. Third, the prosecution of corporate crimes negates the criminal liability of its management. Fourth, a portion of corporate criminal …
Examining The Principle Of Ignorantia Facti Excusat, Ignorantia Iuris Non Excusat In The Corruption Case Nizzadro Fabio, 2023 Universitas Indonesia
Examining The Principle Of Ignorantia Facti Excusat, Ignorantia Iuris Non Excusat In The Corruption Case Nizzadro Fabio, Simplexius Asa
Indonesia Law Review
This study was designed as a normative research based on documentary research while the data is analyzed based on the court decisions and is presented in a qualitative descriptive manner, aiming to find out the essential meaning of the teachings of ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia iuris non excusat, and to knowing the implementation of the principles of ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia iuris non excusat. This is in the regulations and judicial practice in Indonesia through the views of the judges in decision Number 20/Pid.Sus-TPK/2022/PN. Kpg. The study found three main conclusions, namely first, the principle of ignorantia facti …
Was Atwater V. Lago Vista Decided Correctly? The Fourth Amendment's Shadow And Simulacra Of Police Brutality And The American Dream, 2023 Barry University School of Law
Was Atwater V. Lago Vista Decided Correctly? The Fourth Amendment's Shadow And Simulacra Of Police Brutality And The American Dream, Charles Lincoln
Barry Law Review
No abstract provided.
Criminal Justice Reform And The Centrality Of Intent, 2023 William & Mary Law School
Criminal Justice Reform And The Centrality Of Intent, Cynthia V. Ward
Faculty Publications
The nationwide movement for criminal justice reform has produced numerous proposals to amend procedural and sentencing practices in the American criminal justice system. These include plans to abolish mandatory minimum schemes in criminal sentencing; address discrimination in charging, convicting, and sentencing; reform drug policy; rectify discriminatory policies and practices in policing; assist incarcerated individuals in re-entering society when released from prison; and reorganize our system of juvenile justice. But less attention has been given to reforming the substantive content of the criminal law—specifically, to addressing flaws in how the law defines the elements of criminal culpability and deploys them in …
The Analysis Of Transitional Justice Initiatives And The Flaw Of Prosecution On The Past Human Rights Violation In Indonesia (Tanjung Priok Case), 2023 Universitas Andalas, Indonesia
The Analysis Of Transitional Justice Initiatives And The Flaw Of Prosecution On The Past Human Rights Violation In Indonesia (Tanjung Priok Case), Junaedi Saibih, Elwi Danil, Kurnia Warman, Nani Mulyati
Indonesian Journal of International Law
The political transition from the New Order era to Reform Era has initiated questions to the transitional government about transitional justice initiatives. This chapter discusses the theoretical perspectives on transitional justice that have been developed by many scholars in their publications. Besides the theoretical perspectives about transitional justice, this chapter also discusses transitional justice elements, the forms, and the institution of justice in transitional regimes. The discussion in this chapter is important as a measurement of the transitional government initiatives to reach political stability and reconciling with the past. The explanation about the forms and the element of justice then …
A New Test For The New Crime Exception, 2023 University of South Carolina - Columbia
A New Test For The New Crime Exception, Colin Miller
Utah Law Review
The new crime exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule allows prosecutors to introduce evidence connected to new crimes committed by defendants who were illegally detained and/or questioned. Unfortunately, as illustrated in this Article, courts largely have applied this new crime exception without any analytical framework or regard for the severity of the initial police misconduct or the defendant’s response. Moreover, courts have begun applying the new crime exception to crimes such as giving a fake name in response to an un-Mirandized interrogation following a lawful arrest.
By doing so, courts have allowed the new crime exception to swallow two …
Mass E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring As A Bail Condition, 2023 Texas A&M University School of Law
Mass E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring As A Bail Condition, Sara Zampierin
Utah Law Review
Over the past decade, the immigration and criminal legal systems have increasingly relied on electronic monitoring as a bail condition; hundreds of thousands of people live under this monitoring on any given day. Decisionmakers purport to impose these conditions to release more individuals from detention and to maintain control over individuals they perceive to pose some risk of flight or to public safety. But the data do not show that electronic monitoring successfully mitigates these risks or that it leads to fewer individuals in detention. Electronic monitoring also comes with severe restrictions on individual liberty and leads to harmful effects …
25 Is The New 18: Extending Juvenile Jurisdiction And Closing Its Exceptions, 2023 S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
25 Is The New 18: Extending Juvenile Jurisdiction And Closing Its Exceptions, Dylan Raymond
Utah Law Review
Courts are in broad agreement that juveniles—defined as people under 18-yearsold — are less culpable than adults and thus punish them differently. Indeed, few would disagree that the adult criminal system should apply only to adults—people “fully developed and mature.” If separating adults and juveniles based on culpability is the goal, it begs a simple question: should the split happen at age 18? Some U.S. institutions imply that they believe an 18-year-old lacks the requisite maturity to assume certain responsibilities, including the House of Representatives and car rental agencies, which permit participation at 25. Looking globally, important institutions like the …
The Battle Of The Narrative In Jones V. Mississippi: Consideration Of Youth “In Name Only”, 2023 Mercer University School of Law
The Battle Of The Narrative In Jones V. Mississippi: Consideration Of Youth “In Name Only”, Stevie Leahy
Mercer Law Review
Juvenile sentencing within the United States is but one illustration of how the legal system reinforces the marginalization of populations that have been historically underinvested and underrepresented. Throughout the past century, the macro-narrative on sentencing has fluctuated nationally, as well as within individual states, with the reasoning used to justify decisions sliding between the conflicting lenses of rehabilitation and punishment. This has necessarily impacted the micro-narrative—the way that an individual’s story is considered and weighed (or ignored) within sentencing. There are endless factors that affect outcomes in sentencing: class, race and or ethnicity, gender, and access to counsel are just …
Reversal Burden Of Proof In Process Of Proving Money Laundering Cases In Indonesia, 2023 Universitas Sriwijaya
Reversal Burden Of Proof In Process Of Proving Money Laundering Cases In Indonesia, Artha Febriansyah, Eva Achjani Zulfa, Muhammad Yusuf, Desia Banjarani
Indonesia Law Review
The implementation of reversal burden of proof in money laundering cases still faces obstacles that cause suboptimal and ineffective in legal enforcement. It raises a debate regarding the existence of reversal burden of proof in the proving system, particularly the proof of the crime of money laundering. Based on this background, the problems in this research are related to the regulation and implementation of reversal burden of proof in the process of proving money laundering cases and the steps that can be taken in optimizing the application of reversal burden of proof in the process of proving money laundering cases. …
Grappling With Our Own Errors: Lessons From State V. Blake, 2023 Washington and Lee University School of Law
Grappling With Our Own Errors: Lessons From State V. Blake, Alicia Ochsner Utt
Washington and Lee Law Review Online
After fifty years of a failed war on drugs, many states are just now beginning to take steps toward attempting to repair a half-century of harm. By examining the response of Washington’s government at the executive and legislative levels to the Washington Supreme Court’s decision in State v. Blake, this Note identifies some key factors that must be present in the paths forward for all states in their own processes of reform. The stakeholders involved in transforming the criminal legal system must ensure that relief from prior drug-related convictions is automatic, geographically standardized, and complete. Any form of relief …
Reducing Recidivism Through Rehabilitation: An Observational Study On Rehabilitative Programming During And After Incarceration To Determine Best Practices For Successful Reintegration Into Society, 2023 Mississippi University for Women
Reducing Recidivism Through Rehabilitation: An Observational Study On Rehabilitative Programming During And After Incarceration To Determine Best Practices For Successful Reintegration Into Society, William R. Balestrino
Merge
No abstract provided.
Q&A: W&M Law Professor Jeffrey Bellin On 'Mass Incarceration Nation', 2023 William & Mary Law School
Q&A: W&M Law Professor Jeffrey Bellin On 'Mass Incarceration Nation', W&M Law School Staff, Jeffrey Bellin
Popular Media
No abstract provided.
Let The Right Ones In: The Supreme Court's Changing Approach To Justiciability, 2023 Duquesne University School of Law
Let The Right Ones In: The Supreme Court's Changing Approach To Justiciability, Richard L. Heppner
Law Faculty Publications
The power of federal courts to act is circumscribed not only by the limits of subject matter jurisdiction, but also by various justiciability doctrines. Article III of the Constitution vests the judicial power of the United States in the Supreme Court and such inferior courts as Congress creates. That power is limited to deciding cases and controversies. It does not permit federal courts to provide advisory opinions when there is not a real dispute between the parties. Based on that constitutional limit, and related prudential concerns, the Court has developed a variety of justiciability requirements limiting which cases can be …
What Trump's Business Fraud Charges Mean -- A Former Prosecutor Explains The 34 Felony Counts And Obstacles Ahead For Manhattan's Da, 2023 William & Mary Law School
What Trump's Business Fraud Charges Mean -- A Former Prosecutor Explains The 34 Felony Counts And Obstacles Ahead For Manhattan's Da, Jeffrey Bellin
Popular Media
No abstract provided.
Death After Dobbs: Addressing The Viability Of Capital Punishment For Abortion, 2023 William & Mary Law School
Death After Dobbs: Addressing The Viability Of Capital Punishment For Abortion, Melanie Kalmanson
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Pre-Dobbs legislative efforts and states’ reactions in the immediate aftermath of Dobbs indicate the post-Dobbs reality that deeply conservative states will seek to criminalize abortion and impose extremely harsh sentences for such crimes, up to and including death. This Article addresses that reality. Initially, this Article illustrates that abortion and capital punishment are like opposite sides of the same coin, and it is a handful of states leading the counter majoritarian efforts on both topics. After outlining the position of each state in the nation that retains capital punishment on capital sentencing and abortion, the Article identifies the …