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Right To Be Present: People V. Cohen

Touro Law Review

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Redefining The Sixth Amendment, John B. Mitchell

Faculty Articles

This article compares public defenders in lower courts with public defenders in superior courts across the country. The article concludes that lower criminal courts suffer from problems of funding and resource allocation and that these issues must be addressed before they can adequately administer justice.

The Sixth Amendment On Ice-United States V. Jones: Whether Sentence Enhancements For Failure To Plead Guilty Chill The Exercise Of The Right To Trial, Andrew Neal Siegel

American University Law Review

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Illusion, Illogic, And Injustice: Real-Offense Sentencing And The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, David Yellen

Articles

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Continuing Criminal Enterprise, Conspiracy, And The Multiple Punishment Doctrine, Kenneth G. Schuler

Michigan Law Review

This Note argues that the Multiple Punishment Doctrine prohibits the imposition of concurrent convictions and sentences upon criminal defendants found guilty of engaging in a CCE and conspiring to violate narcotics laws. Part I surveys the values underlying the Multiple Punishment Doctrine and traces the evolution of the Supreme Court's application of the doctrine to modern criminal law. Part II examines the various methods employed by the circuit courts of appeals to deal with simultaneous convictions and sentences for CCE and conspiracy. Part III reviews the test, identified in Part I, that the Supreme Court has implicitly utilized to analyze …

A Practical Guide To Recent Developments In Federal Habeas Corpus For Practicing Attorneys, J. Thomas Sullivan

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Constitutional Criminal Law, Peggy Natale

Mercer Law Review

This year, the Eleventh Circuit issued opinions on a variety of criminal constitutional law cases, including decisions granting writs of habeas corpus on several death row inmates, and in three cases addressing ineffective assistance of counsel. What follows is a summary of some of the most important criminal constitutional cases for 1992. No effort has been made to make an exhaustive review of. all of the court's criminal cases for the year.

Legitimating Death, Louis D. Bilionis

Michigan Law Review

This article arrives at the surprising conclusion that a meaningful Eighth Amendment death penalty jurisprudence lives on, that it is a quite intelligible jurisprudence, and that it is driven by a coherent methodology with firm roots in the traditions of constitutional adjudication.

To reach that conclusion, it is helpful first to have some sense of what the Supreme Court has been doing in the death penalty area lately. Part I thus presents a topical review of the Court's recent work, identifying the themes that now dominate, pointing out the concerns those themes raise, and asking whether any sense can be …

The Care And Feeding Of The United States Constitution, Abner J. Mikva

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Intelligible Constitution by Joseph Goldstein

Capital Punishment's Future, Welsh S. White

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Capital Punishment in America by Raymond Paternoster

Reformist Myopia And The Imperative Of Progress: Lessons For The Post-Brown Era, Donald E. Lively

Vanderbilt Law Review

Over the course of two centuries, constitutional law has evolved as both a source and ratification of moral development. The processes of constructing and interpreting the nation's charter have established a unique window through which it is possible to glimpse the fundamental concerns of bygone and present eras and to observe the competition of values and ordering of priorities that define the society. A survey of the complete record discloses innumerable conflicts of law and morality that have arisen, been resolved, and exist now primarily as historical reference points. It also reveals significant business that remains unfinished. Even as the …

The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Be Compelled To Render The Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Richard Klein

Indiana Law Journal

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The Political Process As Final Solution, Charles M. Freeland

Indiana Law Journal

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Virtues (And Limits) Of Shared Values: The Fourth Amendment And Miranda's Concept Of Custody, Richard A. Williamson

Faculty Publications

Miranda only protects suspects who the police subject to custodial interrogation. The concept of custody is tethered to the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination; thus, to render a suspect in custody, law enforcement officials must subject the suspect to a compelling environment that tends to undermine that privilege. In this article, Professor Richard A. Williamson examines the application of Miranda to Terry stops. He reviews the impact of the Beheler and Berkemer decisions, which held that suspects who officials stop based on reasonable suspicion, as opposed to suspects who officials arrest, are not entitled to Miranda warnings. Professor Williamson generally …

Introduction, Sidney D. Watson

Mercer Law Review

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Reasonable Expectations Of Privacy And Autonomy In Fourth Amendment Cases: An Empirical Look At "Understandings Recognized And Permitted By Society", Christopher Slobogin, Joseph E. Schumacher

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This Article reports an attempt to investigate empirically important aspects of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as construed by the United States Supreme Court. In the course of doing so, it touches upon two other topics. Most directly, it addresses the appropriate scope of the Fourth Amendment. Less directly, it raises questions about the role that empirical research should play in fashioning constitutional rules.

Reflections On The American And Talmudic Death Penalty, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.

Mu'min V. Virginia--Content Questioning For Media Bias In Jury Selection: Ask Them No Questions, They'll Tell You No Lies, Jill Simeone

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

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It's Time To Unfix The Criminal Justice System, Abner J. Mikva

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

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Comment: Blinking At Reality: An Examination Of Bray V. Alexandria, Marjorie Richter

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

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Re-Righting The Right To Privacy: The Supreme Court And The Constitutional Right To Privacy In Criminal Law, Jana Nestlerode

Cleveland State Law Review

Since the 1970's, federal legislation has expanded privacy rights in nonconstitutional areas. Juxtaposed against this more liberal legislative trend is the action of a significantly more conservative judiciary which has, and is, contracting that right in those areas governed by the Constitution. An examination of the Supreme Court's most recent decisions in the criminal law arena readily bears witness to this proclivity.

Religious Healing In The Courts: The Liberties And Liabilities Of Patients, Parents, And Healers, Barry Nobel

Seattle University Law Review

Accordingly, in light of this struggle to balance public health with religious liberty, this Article chronicles the evolving liberties and liabilities of religious patients, parents, and healers over the course of the twentieth century and examines the current state of religious healing law. Throughout, it advocates the greatest possible liberty for religious healing consistent with public and family security, as well as advocating equal protection under the law for all involved in religious treatment, whether they are members of organized religious groups or individual practitioners.

Illinois' Stalking Statute: Taking Unsteady Aim At Preventing Attacks, 26 J. Marshall L. Rev. 821 (1993), Gregory W. O'Reilly

UIC Law Review

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Chase Court And Fundamental Rights: A Watershed In American Constitutionalism, The , Robert J. Kaczorowski

Faculty Scholarship

Three weeks before he died in May 1873, the frail and ailing Salmon P. Chase joined three of his brethren in dissent in one of the most important cases ever decided by the United States Supreme Court, the Slaughter-House Cases.1 This decision was a watershed in United States constitutional history for several reasons. Doctrinally, it represented a rejection of the virtually unanimous decisions of the lower federal courts upholding the constitutionality of revolutionary federal civil rights laws enacted in the aftermath of the Civil War. Institutionally, it was an example of extraordinary judicial activism in overriding the legislative will of …

The Death Penalty: A Solution To The Problem Of Intentional Aids Transmission Through Rape, 26 J. Marshall L. Rev. 941 (1993), Stefanie S. Wepner

UIC Law Review

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The Constitutional Right To Defense Experts, Paul C. Giannelli

Faculty Publications

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A Constitution In Conflict: The Doctrine Of Independent State Grounds And The Voter Initiative In California, Rachel A. Van Cleave

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

California's Declaration of Rights proclaims that it is independent from rights set forth in the Federal Constitution. However, the voters of California, by simple majority votes, passed Propositions 8 and 115, the so-called "victims' rights initiatives," in an effort to require California judges to interpret certain California rights no broader than the federal judiciary has interpreted similarly worded rights found in the Federal Bill of Rights. This has resulted in a conflict between the voter's right to initiate law, and the rights of all Californians to an independent Declaration of Rights. This Article does not argue that broader rights are …

Re-Righting The Right To Privacy: The Supreme Court And The Constitutional Right To Privacy In Criminal Law, Jana Nestlerode

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

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Due Process In Death Penalty Commutations: Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Clemency, Daniel T. Kobil

University of Richmond Law Review

The idea of the last-minute reprieve granted by a distant, unknowable dispenser of mercy to a man condemned to death has a powerful hold on our imaginations. Fyodor Dostoevsky's eleventh hour pardon by the czar in many ways shaped his literary career. The scene of the haunted Death Row prisoner who awaits word from the governor as a ticking clock punctuates his final hours is a stock vignette of Hollywood crime films. Anyone who has ever seized on the slimmest hope, whose fate has been committed to the hands of another - virtually all of us - can identify with …

In A Different Register: The Pragmatics Of Powerlessness In Police Interrogation, Janet Ainsworth

Faculty Articles

In a majority of states, a suspect is deemed to have invoked the Miranda right to counsel only if the suspect's request is clear and unequivocal. This doctrine is challenged as an insufficient protection of constitutional rights. It is argued that courts should treat even ambiguous and equivocal requests as per se effective innovations of the right to counsel.