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Character, Liberalism, And The Protean Culture Of Evidence Law, Daniel D. Blinka

Seattle University Law Review

It is time to rethink character evidence. Long notorious as the most frequently litigated evidence issue, character doctrine plagues courts, trial lawyers, and law students with its infamously “grotesque” array of nonsensical rules, whimsical distinctions, and arcane procedures. Character is a calculation of social worth and value; it is the sum total of what others think of us, whether expressed as their own opinion or the collective opinions of many (reputation). Once we grasp that character is a social construct, we are in a better position to address some of the problems that plague evidence law. To provide needed clarity ...

Ehearsay, Jeffrey Bellin

Faculty Publications

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Masquerading Justiciability: The Misapplication Of State Secrets Privilege In Mohamed V. Jeppesen--Reflections From A Comparative Perspective, Galit Raguan

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Rape Shield Laws And The Social Media Revolution: Discoverability Of Social Media--It's Not Private, Seth I. Koslow

Touro Law Review

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State V. Rogers, John Wolff

Montana Law Review

Even if ample admissible evidence proves a defendant committed a crime, the defendant’s right to a fair trial is violated if: (1) the State introduces inadmissible evidence at trial that does not prove an element of the crime; (2) no admissible evidence proves the facts that the tainted evidence proves; and (3) it is reasonably possible that the evidence contributed to the defendant’s conviction.

31. Stolzenberg, S., & Lyon, T.D. (In Press). How Attorneys Question Children About The Dynamics Of Sexual Abuse And Disclosure In Criminal Trials. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law,, Thomas D. Lyon

Thomas D. Lyon

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Whether You "Like" It Or Not: The Inclusion Of Social Media Evidence In Sexual Harassment Cases And How Courts Can Effectively Control It, Laura E. Diss

Boston College Law Review

The increasing use of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace in social interactions has led to a corresponding increase in the use of social media evidence in litigation. Social media sites provide attorneys with easily accessible, up-to-date information about individuals, making such sites highly desirable sources of evidence. Although recent case law indicates that social media evidence is largely discoverable and often admissible, allowing broad discovery of social media evidence in sexual harassment cases could be highly problematic for plaintiffs because it often produces irrelevant and prejudicial evidence that only serves to embarrass plaintiffs and dissuade them from ...

30. Ahern, E.C., & Lyon, T.D. (In Press). Facilitating Maltreated Children's Use Of Emotional Language. Journal Of Forensic Social Work, Thomas D. Lyon

Thomas D. Lyon

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Dr. Joseph Warren, University Of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth

Center for Human Identification Oral History Project

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Crime Scene Investigation: Tv Versus Reality, University Of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth

Center for Human Identification Oral History Project

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Teamwork, University Of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth

Center for Human Identification Oral History Project

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How Do You Get A Job In Forensic Science?, University Of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth

Center for Human Identification Oral History Project

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Other Applications Of Forensic Genetics, University Of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth

Center for Human Identification Oral History Project

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Dna-Prokids: Forensic Genetics And Human Trafficking, University Of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth

Center for Human Identification Oral History Project

DNA - ProKids is a program jointly run by the Universidad de Granada (UGR) and the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC). The Goal of DNA - Prokids is to return trafficked individuals, specifically young people and children to their families in their home countries. The FBI estimates that there are more than 100,000 children and teens in the United States that are being trafficked in the sex trade.

Since Texas is a portal into the U.S. for Central and South America, the state government has been proactive in trying to address the problem. Part of the solution ...

Dr. Arthur Eisenberg, University Of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth

Center for Human Identification Oral History Project

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Dr. John Planz, University Of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth

Center for Human Identification Oral History Project

John V. Planz holds a B.S degree in Biology and Zoology (double major) from the State University of New York (Oswego, NY), a M.S. degree in behavioral ecology from Shippensburg University (Shippensburg, PA) and a Ph.D. in molecular evolutionary genetics and population genetics from the University of North Texas (Denton, TX). Dr. Planz studied as a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Section of Mammals (Pittsburgh, PA) in mammalian phylogenetic systematics. Dr. Planz entered the forensics field in 1993 at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas, TX. He later served as the ...

29. Lyon, Td, & Evans, Ad (In Press). Young Children’S Understanding That Promising Guarantees Performance: The Effects Of Age And Maltreatment. Law & Human Behavior., Thomas D. Lyon

Thomas D. Lyon

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Altering Attention In Adjudication, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Andrew J. Wistrich, Chris Guthrie

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Judges decide complex cases in rapid succession but are limited by cognitive constraints. Consequently judges cannot allocate equal attention to every aspect of a case. Case outcomes might thus depend on which aspects of a case are particularly salient to the judge. Put simply, a judge focusing on one aspect of a case might reach a different outcome than a judge focusing on another. In this Article, we report the results of a series of studies exploring various ways in which directing judicial attention can shape judicial outcomes. In the first study, we show that judges impose shorter sentences when ...

Survey Of Washington Search And Seizure Law: 2013 Update, Justice Charles W. Johnson, Justice Debra L. Stephens

Seattle University Law Review

This survey is intended to serve as a resource to which Washington lawyers, judges, law enforcement officers, and others can turn as an authoritative starting point for researching Washington search and seizure law. In order to be useful as a research tool, this Survey requires periodic updates to address new cases interpreting the Washington constitution and the U.S. Constitution and to reflect the current state of the law. Many of these cases involve the Washington State Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Washington constitution. Also, as the U.S. Supreme Court has continued to examine Fourth Amendment search and ...

The Duties Of Non-Judicial Actors In Ensuring Competent Negotiation, Stephanos Bibas

Faculty Scholarship

This essay, written for a symposium at Duquesne Law School entitled Plea Bargaining After Lafler and Frye, offers thoughts on how lawyers could learn from doctors’ experience in catching and preventing medical errors and aviation experts’ learning from airplane crashes and near misses. It also expresses skepticism about the efficacy of judges’ ex post review of ineffective assistance of counsel, but holds out more hope that public-defender organizations, bar associations, probation officers, sentencing judges, sentencing commissions, and line and supervisory prosecutors can do much more to prevent misunderstanding and remedy ineffective bargaining advice in the first place.