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The Need For An Innocence Network In Texas., Matthew D. Sharp

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Texas must establish an innocence network to ensure crime lab accountability standards are enforced. The multitude of crime lab scandals around the United States demonstrate why the current system of accountability, self-policing, should be reimagined as one more similar to that of a manufacturer and a consumer. Like manufacturers, crime labs are in the best position to ensure the accuracy of any results. Reshaping the system of accountability in this way would ensure that those responsible for handling evidence, handle it with the utmost care and provide accurate results. Innocence Projects generally adhere to one of three different organizational paradigms. …

Assessing The Counterfactual: The Efficacy Of Drug Interdiction Absent Racial Profiling, Katherine Y. Barnes

Duke Law Journal

This Article investigates the costs and benefits of racial profiling in the context of drug interdiction. I begin by reviewing the empirical economic and civil rights literature regarding the existence and rationality of racial profiling and then build an explicit model of a trooper's decision to search a stopped vehicle. Estimating the model using stop and search data from a portion of Interstate 95 in Maryland, I find that the Maryland State Police use the motorist's race as a factor in deciding which stopped vehicles to search. This result persists even after controlling for many other descriptive variables that impact …

The Innocence Protection Act Of 2004: A Small Step Forward And A Framework For Larger Reforms, Ronald Weich

All Faculty Scholarship

Passage of the Innocence Protection Act in the closing days of the 108th Congress was a watershed moment. To be sure, the bill that finally became law was a shadow of the more ambitious criminal justice reforms first championed five years earlier by Senator Pat Leahy, Congressman Bill Delahunt and others. But the enactment of legislation designed to strengthen — not weaken — procedural protections for death row inmates was rich in symbolic importance and promise.

Writing in the April 2001 issue of THE CHAMPION (Innocence Protection Act: Death Penalty Reform on the Horizon), I said optimistically: "The criminal justice …

Volume 29, No. 5

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Shawn Tock, Jonathon Krashinsky, Michael Shalke, Nate Russell

Photo Editor: Mark Dunsmuir

Earmstrong, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong News & Publications: e-Armstrong Newsletter (Archived)

No abstract provided.

Bougainville Community Crime Trends: A Survey Of Crime In Arawa And Buka, Mark Findlay, Gerard Guthrie, Fiona Hukula, James Laki

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The fundamental difference in the role of the state in the recent histories of Arawa and Buka is critical to understanding community attitudes to crime and policing. In Arawa, the state was entirely absent for over 10 years during the civil war and community-based agencies provided the sole source of authority and social control. In Buka, the state remained in control in difficult circumstances. The peace process was based around indigenous dispute resolution techniques and now a role for the state is being gradually reintroduced into post-conflict Bougainville, including of policing services to Arawa. The differences in the recent histories …

The Milosevic Trial - Live: An Iconical Analysis Of International Law's Claim Of Legitimate Authority, Maya Steinitz

Faculty Scholarship

It has been argued that international law has recently "come of age", that it is a fully-fledged legal system like any other. It has also been argued that in order for a normative system to qualify as "law" it must, at the least, claim to possess legitimate authority and to be supreme to other normative systems. This article examines one highly visible development in international law - the criminal war trials - from a sociological perspective, trying to discern whether and how international law claims legitimate authority and supremacy. Specifically, it focuses on a deeply symbolic example of international criminal …

Killing The Willing: "Volunteers," Suicide And Competency, John H. Blume

Michigan Law Review

When my client Robert South decided to waive his appeals so that his death sentence could be carried out, I understood why he might make that choice. Robert had a brain tumor that could not be surgically removed. Though not fatal, the tumor disrupted his sleep/wake cycle and had other negative physical consequences, including severe headaches, for his daily existence. He also had chronic post-traumatic stress disorder ("PTSD"), resulting from a profound history of childhood physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Robert suffered from daily recurrent flashbacks of the abuse. He had been on death row for almost a decade, and …

Current, February 28, 2005, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2000s)

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 029, Number 29, February 28, 2005, Grand Valley State University

2004-2005, Volume 29

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Usa V. Pelullo

2005 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Newscast, February 25, 2005, Illinois State University, College Of Applied Science And Technology

newsCAST

Newsletter of the Illinois State University College of Applied Science and Technology

2005-02-25, Board Of Regents, Murray State University

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 80, No. 38 [40], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Sainlar, Lindsay. A Look Inside Vagina Monologues
• Clark, Ashlee. Another Motion Filed to Move Lucas Goodrum Trial – Katie Autry Case
• Richardson, Kelly. Retirees Can No Longer Return to Same Positions
• Coulter, Amber. Two Announce Plans to Run for Student Government Association President – Katie Dawson, Josh Collins
• Richardson, Kelly. Western Pushes for More Student Federal Funding
• Student Government Association Missing the Head on the Nail
• Ingram, Brooks. Editorial Cartoon – Class Still Open
• Green, Tavia. Show Your Custodian Some Love
• Summers, Megan. Animals in Rodeo Not Abused
• Ogles, …

The Setonian, February 24, 2005, Seton Hall University

2005

No abstract provided.

The Pan American (2005-02-24), Clarissa Martinez

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

[54th Year, No. 20]

Chanticleer | Vol 53, Issue [21], Jacksonville State University

Chanticleer

*NOTE: Issue mislabeled as Issue 20 at printing*

Hubbard V. Taylor

2005 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

The Chronicle, Amber Bryant-Tapper, Chris Cole, Matt Bockert, Andrew Martin, Jordana Andre, Drew Charron, Collin Curtis, Leif Halvorson, Cheyenne Hayes, Jeremy Kohrs, Dana Flory

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

The Advocate (Vol. 2, Issue 9)

Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...)

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, February 23, 2005, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 124, Issue 19

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 80, No. 37 [39], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Clark, Ashlee. Budget Encouraging for Higher Education
• Richardson, Kelly. Division Change Reviewed
• Wilberding, Beth. Swim Teams Bring Home Sun Belt Victories
• Clark, Ashlee. Owensboro Home for Trial – Katie Autry Case
• Coulter, Amber. Legislation Suggests Class Passes – Student Government Association
• Richardson, Kelly. Student Government Association to Continue Evaluations
• Hupman, Samantha. Former Agriculture Professor Dies – Billy Adams
• Hupman, Samantha. Former Professor Dies of Cancer – James Wesolowski
• Fontana, Alex. Teaching Scholars Announced
• Play Ball, Bowling Green! – Minor League Baseball
• Ingram, Brooks. Editorial Cartoon – Minor League Baseball …

The Hilltop 2-22-2005, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

No abstract provided.

The Murray Ledger And Times, February 22, 2005, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

The Statesman, V. 48a, I. 08, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 48A, i. 08

Commonwealth Times 2005-02-21

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, February 21, 2005, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 124, Issue 17

Unf In Review 2004, University Of North Florida

UNF in Review

An annual report to the community from the University of North Florida published as a supplement to the Florida Times Union. The University of North Florida Community Report was produced by the Specialty Publication Division of the Florida Times-Union in cooperation with the Office of Marketing & Publications at the University of North Florida. The report includes a letter from John Delaney, President of University of North Florida and reports on UNF’s Master Plan, UNF Serving the community including information on The UNF Foundation and The board of trustees and the budget, The Year in Pictures, Student Opportunities and Campus …

The Courier, Volume 38, Issue 15, February 18, 2005, The Courier, College Of Dupage

The Courier

Stories:

Tuition Vote Postponed–Students Convince Board To Wait One Month

Diversity Policy Put Into Action–Affirmative Action At Work On Campus

Deadline Earlier For Financial Aid–Application Deadlines Much Earlier This Year Due To Semester Conversion (Quarters To Semesters)

Keeping A Close Eye On DuPage–Advanced Television Students Get Hands-On Experience With Creating A Show From Start To Finish

Spotting The Sun On West Campus

People:

Leahy

Jen Loid

The Hilltop 2-18-2005, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

No abstract provided.