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Fifteenth Anniversary Committee Emails 1998-1999, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Nicole Rafter

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.

Correspondence Related To Dwc Newsletter Divisionews, 1999, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Nicole Rafter, Susan Sharp

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.

The Structure And Procedures Of Hostage/Crisis Negotiation Units In United States Police Organizations, Robert Joseph Louden

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Hostage/Crisis negotiation was formally developed as a police function in the United States by the New York City Police Department in 1972–1973. The procedure has saved countless fives. There have also been many hostage/barricade situations which ended in disaster.

This study is an analysis of the hostage/crisis negotiation practices of 276 local, county and state police agencies in the U.S. which employ at least 100 sworn officers and utilize some standard system of negotiation for response to hostage and barricade situations. A four-page questionnaire developed specifically for the project provided data about policy matters, organizational configurations, and about the selection …

Truth And Reconciliation, Albie Sachs

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

1998 Annual Report, Goffstown, New Hampshire., Goffstown Town Representatives

Goffstown, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

A Basic Concern For Process: Commentary On Quo Vadis, Prospective Overruling, James R. Mccall

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Wright State University Women's Soccer Media Guide 1999, Wright State University Athletics

Athletics Publications

A media guide for Wright State University's 1999 Women's Soccer team. This guide includes photographs, player stats, game results, and records.

The Imposition Of The Death Penalty In The United States Of America: Does It Comply With International Norms?, Beverly Mcqueary Smith

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Supervisory Liability In Section 1983 Cases, Kit Kinports

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Justice For The Forgotten And Despised, David C. Leven

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Armstrong Atlantic State University 1999-2000 Catalog, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong Office of the Registrar: Undergraduate Catalogs (Archived)

Academic catalog for Armstrong Atlantic State University.

Effective Assistance: Reconceiving The Role Of The Chief Public Defender, Kim A. Taylor-Thompson

Faculty Articles

In recent years, scholars have raised critical questions about the role of public defenders. Some have critiqued the ways that defender offices function, and even openly questioned their continuing need. Still others have examined the visions of defender offices, suggesting that more coherence in their missions might ultimately serve their clients better in the future. But for all their variety, most have presumed that the compelling issues occur in the direct representation of clients. In limiting their sphere of analysis, though, they have ignored fundamental questions about an individual who centrally affects the offices' external policies and internal operations: the …

Regulating The Market For Snitches , Ian Weinstein

Faculty Scholarship

These are boom times for the sellers and buyers of cooperation in the federal criminal justice system. While prosecutors have always welcomed the assistance of snitches, tougher federal sentencing laws have led to a significant increase in cooperation as more defendants try to provide "substantial assistance in the investigation or prosecution of another person," to have some chance of receiving a significant sentence reduction. In 1996 one of every five defendants sentenced in the federal courts won mitigation by providing substantial assistance. Many more defendants tried but failed to close the deal. The overheated cooperation market is creating serious problems …

Prosecutorial Misconduct And Constitutional Remedies, Peter J. Henning

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Prosecutorial Misconduct In Grand Jury Investigations, Peter J. Henning

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Scared To Death: The Separate Right To Counsel At Capital Sentencing, John E. Spomer Iii

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

To date, a separate right to counsel at the penalty phase of a capital trial is not recognized as fundamental under the Sixth Amendment right to counsel provision. This Note addresses a capital defendant's constitutional right to have a separate attorney represent him during the sentencing stage. The Supreme Court, in several significant holdings, has stepped towards recognizing this right. The Court has held that the right to counsel applies to capital trials and to all critical stages therein. It also has held that the right to effective assistance of counsel applies at the sentencing phase of these trials and …

Foreword, Gary Williams

Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review

No abstract provided.

University Place, Tammy Didomenico, Judy Holmes, Danielle K. Johnson, Gary Pallassino, Erica Blust

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

California's Attempts To Disarm The Black Panthers, Cynthia Deitle Leonardatos

San Diego Law Review

When the Black Panthers screamed of an armed black populace on the verge of a revolution in 1966, the California Legislature responded with a gun control statute. While many journal articles have been written on the topic of race and guns, none have examined the history and motivations behind the California Legislature's decision to enact a gun control statute in 1967 for the purpose of disarming the members of the Black Panther Party. This Article examines and analyzes this particular California law to enhance the Second Amendment literature on the topic of discriminatory gun control statutes. Accordingly, Part II of …

Attorney Fees As Necessaries Of Life: Expanding A Domestic Violence Victim's Access To Safety And Justice, Angela Zielinski

Montana Law Review

Attorney Fees as Necessaries of Life

Justice Blackmun's Mark On Criminal Law And Procedure, Kit Kinports

Faculty Scholarship

When Justice Blackmun was nominated to the Court in 1970, Americans were consumed with the idea of crime control. In the 1968 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon had called the Supreme Court "soft on crime" and had promised to "put 'law and order' judges on the Court." While sitting on the Eighth Circuit, the Justice had "seldom struck down searches, seizures, arrests or confessions," and most of his opinions in criminal cases had "affirmed guilty verdicts and sentences." Thus, according to one commentator, Justice Blackmun seemed to be "exactly what Nixon was looking for: a judge who believed in judicial restraint, …

Broadening Our World: Citizens And Immigrants Of Color In America, Victor C. Romero

Faculty Scholarship

This article was originally presented at a symposium. The article discusses affirmative action and ways of increasing diversity in higher education.

We Have Seen The Enemy: Scenes From A Trial, Robert E. Precht

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article examines two traps that are particularly likely to undermine prosecutorial decision-making--the confirming-evidence trap and the anchoring trap. During the World Trade Center bombing trial, at which the author served as defense counsel, prosecutors stumbled into both of these traps. Part I of this Article examines the confirming-evidence trap in the context of the prosecution's failure to accept contradictory evidence regarding the material used in the bomb. Part II similarly examines the anchoring trap in light of the debacle that occurred during testimony by the prosecution's main witness. In addition to examining these episodes, the Article concludes that prosecutors …

Working Outside The Rules: The Undefined Responsibilities Of Federal Prosecutors, Laurie L. Levenson

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article discusses the undefined responsibilities of federal prosecutors. For purposes of example, the essay focuses primarily on five situations in which federal prosecutors are often expected to operate "outside" of the rules, including: charging and investigative decisions, discovery, plea bargaining, dealing with the press, and sentencing decisions. While there are "rules" in each of these areas, they take a back seat to the discretionary powers prosecutors are expected to exercise wisely when performing their duties. In judging whether there has been an appropriate exercise of those powers, it is not the rules that will govern society's judgment. Rather, the …

Why Should Prosecutors "Seek Justice"?, Bruce A. Green

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article discusses how prosecutors should conduct themselves in light of the principle that has traditionally ben thought to define the prosecutor's professional ethos: "the duty to seek justice." Part I sketches the outlines of this concept, both historically and in its contemporary incarnation. Part II offers two reasons for asking why prosecutors should seek justice. Part III examines alternative justifications for the duty--first, that the duty derives from prosecutors' extraordinary power, and second, that the duty derives from their role on behalf of a sovereign whose own interest is in achieving justice--and explains why the second provides the more …

Keynote Address, Louis Freeh

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Keynote address given by Louis Freeh.

Panel Discussion: The Prosecutor's Role In Light Of Expanding Federal Criminal Jurisdiction, Zachary W. Carter, Elizabeth Glazer, Philip B. Heymann, Robert S. Litt

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Moderator: Honorable Barbar S. Jones. Panelists: Zachary W. Carter, Elizabeth Glazer, Philip B. Heymann, Robert S. Litt, David A. Sklansky.

Panel Discussion: The Expanding Prosecutorial Role From Trial Counsel To Investigator And Administrator

Fordham Urban Law Journal

MODERATOR: Daniel C. Richman PANELISTS: Laurie L. Levenson, GerardE. Lynch, Honorable John S. Martin, Jr., Julie R. O'Sullivan, Mary Lee Warren, Mary Jo White

Panel Discussion: The Regulation And Ethical Responsibilities Of Federal Prosecutors

Fordham Urban Law Journal

MODERATOR: Bruce A. Green PANELISTS: John Q. Barrett, Michael R. Bromwich, Rory K. Little, Mark F. Pomerantz, Robert E. Precht

Religion And The Public Defender, Sadiq Reza

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This essay argues that the public defender should not undertake, or fail to undertake, any action to the legal detriment of a client on the basis of a conflict the attorney perceives between religious and professional responsibility, except for imminent death or serious bodily harm to another. Having accepted the responsibility of representing indigent criminal defendants, the public defender is duty-bound to not compromise that responsibility for competing religious obligations. This argument rests on four premises: (1) the public defender occupies a unique position in our legal system, and options available to private interest lawyers or other clients should not …