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Wrongful Convictions And Forensic Science: The Need To Regulate Crime Labs, Paul C. Giannelli

Faculty Publications

DNA testing has exonerated over 200 convicts, some of whom were on death row. Studies show that a substantial number of these miscarriages of justice involved scientific fraud or junk science. This article documents the failures of crime labs and some forensic techniques, such as microscopic hair comparison and bullet lead analysis. Some cases involved incompetence and sloppy procedures, while others entailed deceit, but the extent of the derelictions - the number of episodes and the duration of some of the abuses, covering decades in several instances - demonstrates that the problems are systemic.

Paradoxically, the most scientifically sound procedure …

The Judgment-Proof Society, Stephen G. Gilles

ExpressO

This article presents the first article-length treatment of the legal rules that enable uninsured and underinsured individuals to escape tort liability by sheltering their income and assets from collection. These legal barriers to collecting tort judgments include limits on wage garnishment, homestead exemptions, retirement-plan exemptions, discharge in bankruptcy, spendthrift trusts, offshore asset protection trusts, and more. Of course, indigent persons would be judgment-proof even without these rules, because they have so few assets and so little income. Contrary to the myth of personal tort liability that is standard in torts scholarship and teaching, however, these legal rules enable huge numbers …

Arbiter, March 6, Students Of Boise State University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

March 6th 2006, Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

No abstract provided.

Commonwealth Times 2006-03-06

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 38 No. 51, March 6, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

The Collegian (2006-03-06), José Borjón

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 58, No. 22

March 6, 2006 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: March 06, 2006, Eastern Illinois University

March

No abstract provided.

Current, March 06, 2006, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2000s)

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda And Minutes, March 6, 2006

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Meeting held on, March 6, 2006.

Closing Argument: Prosecution Misconduct, Paul C. Giannelli

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

I Want A Divorce: When The Professional Becomes Personal In Academics, Angela West Crews, Gordon A. Crews, Mark L. Dantzker, Reid C. Toth, Jeffrey P. Rush

Criminal Justice Faculty Research

Contractual relationships between faculty members and departments are like marriages and tenured relationships like marriages with children. If either party wants out, the implications can be personally and professionally devastating. While faculty quality is periodically evaluated by performance in teaching, scholarship, and service, one’s ability to develop and maintain successful personal relationships within academic environments may impact, even override, acceptable professional performance. Roundtable participants will discuss leaving institutions and being asked to leave institutions due to the personal affecting the professional, seeking other employment after an academic “divorce” ("remarriage"), professional versus personal loyalties, and other related topics.

I Want A Divorce: When The Professional Becomes Personal In Academics, Angela West Crews, Gordon A. Crews, Mark Dantzker, Reid C. Toth, Jeffrey P. Rush

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Contractual relationships between faculty members and departments are like marriages and tenured relationships like marriages with children. If either party wants out, the implications can be personally and professionally devastating. While faculty quality is periodically evaluated by performance in teaching, scholarship, and service, one’s ability to develop and maintain successful personal relationships within academic environments may impact, even override, acceptable professional performance. Roundtable participants will discuss leaving institutions and being asked to leave institutions due to the personal affecting the professional, seeking other employment after an academic “divorce” ("remarriage"), professional versus personal loyalties, and other related topics.

To Protect Or To Serve: Confidentiality, Client Protection And Domestic Violence, Dana Harrington-Conner

ExpressO

This article addresses the ethical dilemma of whether and when the attorney for an adult victim of domestic violence can or should disclose confidential communications for the protection of his or her own client.

Advocates maintain that domestic violence is the single major cause of injury to women in the United States. The risks are undeniable. An attorney representing a client who remains in or voluntarily returns to a violent relationship may confront conflicting ethical duties because it is difficult, if not impossible, for the attorney to determine which cases will end in further violence and which will not.

This …

When The Inquisitorial And Adversary Systems Collide: Teaching Trial Advocacy To Latin American Lawyers, Leonard L. Cavise

ExpressO

The first part of the article reviews the principal differences in the two systems as it affects trial procedure. The article then reviews those aspects of accusatorial trial proceedings that caused the greatest degree of discomfort to the foreign lawyers. Finally, the article attempts to posit a few recommendations that should help not only to ease the transition process but also to anticipate the next level of procedural and substantive obstacles.

Repeat Offenders. Sentencing. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Reclassifies “violent” felonies as “Class A,” “serious” felonies as “Class B,” and other felonies as “Class C.” Changes Three Strikes law and other sentence enhancements for repeat offenders by lengthening certain sentences and expanding list of felonies subject to the Three Strikes law. Provides courts with more sentencing options, including shorter sentences, for “third strikers” committing specified Class C felonies. Authorizes resentencing for certain “third strikers” serving life sentences for non-violent, non-serious felonies. Creates program to educate inmates on the consequences of committing new crimes. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state …

Enforcing Fourth Amendment Rights Through Federal Habeas Corpus, Steven Semeraro

ExpressO

This article reassesses the use of federal habeas corpus to enforce the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. In 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court prohibited virtually all substantive review of search-and-seizure claims in federal habeas proceedings. A wave of critical commentary followed, arguing that there was no legitimate reason to distinguish the Fourth Amendment from other constitutional rights. In recent years, however, this anomaly in habeas corpus practice has gone almost entirely unexamined despite dramatic changes in the law governing both the Fourth Amendment and habeas corpus itself.

This article does two things. First, it reviews the history …

Implementing The Usa Patriot Act: A Case Study Of The Student And Exchange Visitor Information System (Sevis), Kam C. Wong

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Pan American (2006-03-02), Claudette Gonzalez

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

55th Year, No. 21

Spectrum, Volume 24, Issue 16, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Tiki Barber sneaks through SHU -- The Sacred Hearts for Hope need help to walk for a cure -- New Middle Eastern Studies Minor -- Spring Break Service: Sacred Heart Style -- Mock trial team teaches competition 'just how to debate' -- ATM problems trouble students -- Scholarships available for all students, all the time -- Family Feud over "How I learned to Drive" -- How to cope with midterm stress and anxiety -- He Said... She Said... -- Trials of the Performing Arts -- Pioneer Magazine seeks models -- Spring's almost here! Now, what to wear? -- …

Facial Challenges, Legislative Purpose, And The Commerce Clause, David L. Franklin

ExpressO

Over the past decade or so, the Supreme Court has issued an extraordinary and highly controversial series of decisions concerning the scope of Congress’s power. Yet beneath the surface of the debate over the federalism cases lies a parallel dispute that has received far less academic notice. This dispute concerns the proper mode of judicial review in cases testing the scope of congressional power. The uncertainty is greatest in the Commerce Clause area, where the Court’s recent cases—including its 2005 decision in Gonzales v. Raich—have shown a strong preference for facial challenges, in sharp contrast to the Court’s traditional inclination …

The Register, 2006-03-01, North Carolina Agricutural And Technical State University

NCAT Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Keynoter, March 2006, Boise State University Association Of Office Professionals

Boise State University Association of Office Professionals - Keynoter

President’s Address

IAEOP Spring Conference

Nominations & Elections

Free Money!

Don’t Get Caught in the "Phishing" Net

IAEOP Recognizes Boise State Employees

Women Around the World

NAEOP 2006 National Conference

What’s your PSP IQ?

How To Get Cooperation From Other Departments

Spring/Summer 2006 Law Letter, Georgia State University College Of Law

The Law Letter

No abstract provided.

Spr Bulletin, Fall 2005, Uno Office Of Research And Creative Activity

Sponsored Programs Bulletins

This bulletin features Recent Grant Recipients.

The Prosecution’S Choice: Admitting A Non-Testifying Domestic Violence Victim’S Statements Under Crawford V. Washington, Kristine Soulé

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

This Comment explores these available options in light of Crawford's holding and reasoning. In Part II this Comment provides an overview of the background of the Confrontation Clause from its development as a constitutional amendment through its application in Ohio v. Roberts and the admissibility of hearsay. Part III examines Crawford and its holding. Part IV discusses the policy concerns leading to the use of police reports and officer testimony in the prosecution of domestic violence cases and the problems that arise in the prosecution of domestic violence cases. Part V examines excited utterance in Texas, the Texas Court of …

Mahon Lecture, Patrick E. Higginbotham

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

The law of federal courts is now a free-standing subject in every law school curriculum, taught in law schools as federal jurisdiction and in distinct courses as federal practice and civil procedure. So much of this is recent. After all, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which fueled a sea of change in American litigation are only 65 years old. Its youth in the law is easily demonstrated. For example, the doctrine of standing did not appear in anything like its present form until after World War II, responding as it did to the growth of public law and the …

The Forum (Volume 35, Number 8), Valparaiso University School Of Law

Valparaiso Law School Forum

No abstract provided.

Videotaped Confessions And The Genre Of Documentary, Jessica Silbey

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.