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Solving The Lawyer Problem In Criminal Cases, George C. Thomas Iii

Rutgers Law School (Newark) Faculty Papers

We are learning that the vaunted American adversarial system too often fails to protect innocent defendants. Part of the problem is that indigent criminal defenders, in many parts of the country, are overburdened to the point that they cannot always provide an adequate adversarial testing of the State’s case. Part of the problem is the emotional burn out that many defenders experience. A less well known part of the problem is that the very nature of the adversarial mentality too often causes prosecutors to cut corners and thus threaten innocent defendants. “Solving the Lawyer Problem in Criminal Cases,” a 9,000 …

Presumed Guilty: Innocence And The Death Penalty, Sean O'Brien

Faculty Works

DNA has really changed the way that defense lawyers and prosecutors think about wrongful convictions and about the criminal justice process. But it has not changed it enough.

There are two distinct sets of prisoners who have been declared innocent and released from prison. One consists of DNA exonerees that was developed through the efforts of the innocence projects. The other consists of people who have been on death row who have been exonerated. Only relatively few of the death row exonerations were accomplished with DNA technology. This article examines both lists and discusses a few lessons that we are …

The Bg News February 19, 2007, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. February 19, 2007. Volume 97-Issue 102.

Effects Of Individual And Contextual Characteristics On Preadjudication Detention Of Juvenile Delinquents, Gaylene Armstrong, Nancy Rodriguez

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

This study examined individual and contextual factors affecting preadjudication detention of juvenile delinquents in 65 counties of a northeastern state. Results demonstrated that while individual characteristics of the juvenile delinquents were important predictors, much of the variation in decisions was explained when contextual factors of the counties were included in a two‐level hierarchical linear model. In addition to the statistically significant legal and extralegal juvenile characteristics, our study found that counties with a higher percentage of non‐White population were more likely to detain juvenile delinquents prior to adjudication. These findings demonstrate the importance of considering both individual and contextual factors …

Gsu Professor Participates In Public Hearings On Death Penalty Reforms, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

On February 26, Dr. James “Chip” Coldren of Governors State University will be in Chicago with the 15 other members of the Capital Punishment Reform Study Committee listening to the testimony of the learned, the concerned, the professionals, and the passionate.

The Committee, chaired by Thomas Sullivan, Partner at Jenner & Block, LLP, will hear testimony from the public concerning Illinois death penalty reform measures at 10 a.m. in the Auditorium on the Concourse Level of the J.R. Thompson Center, 100 West Randolph Street, Chicago.

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, February 16, 2007, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

February

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 62, February 16, 2007

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

Council On Academic Affairs Minutes, Feb 15, 2007, Eastern Kentucky University

Council on Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, February 15, 2007, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The February 15, 2007, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Comment, February 15, 2007, Bridgewater State College

The Comment

No abstract provided.

Illinois State University Founders Day Convocation Program, February 15, 2007, Illinois State University

Founding Celebration Programs

Program for annual event celebrating the founding of Illinois State Normal University on February 18, 1857.

Iwu Students To Take Part In Midwest Model United Nations Conference, Meg Dubuque

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Illinois State University Founders Day Old Main Bell Ceremony Program, February 15, 2007, Illinois State University

Founding Celebration Programs

Program for annual event celebrating the founding of Illinois State Normal University on February 18, 1857.

Montana Kaimin, February 15, 2007, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

February 15, 2007, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

The Register, 2007-02-14, North Carolina Agricutural And Technical State University

NCAT Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

02-14-2007 Swosu Offers Multiple Interactive Courses Designed For Convenience, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2007

Southwestern Oklahoma State University has made a college education more accessible with interactive video classes allowing students to do college work without stepping on the Weatherford or Sayre campuses.

Spartan Daily, February 14, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 128, Issue 12

The Spinnaker Vol. 30 No. 22, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community

Prospectus, 14, 2007, Aaron Geiger, Donna Mayer, Megan M. Olson, Ellen Schmidt, Michael Laird

Prospectus 2007

No abstract provided.

What’S New, What’S Not, What’S Old, What’S Hot: New Technology And Services For The Legal Sector, Sharon Bradley

Presentations

No abstract provided.

Illinois State University Founders Day Convocation Program, February 14, 2007, Illinois State University

Founding Celebration Programs

Program for annual event celebrating the founding of Illinois State Normal University on February 18, 1857.

Judicializing Federative Power, Richard Broughton

ExpressO

The federal Constitution is ambiguous about federative power, Locke’s description of the power over war and foreign relations. On the one hand, the Constitution is plainly un-Lockean, dividing federative power between Congress and the President and contemplating that they will exercise responsibility, and sometimes competing prerogatives, in war and foreign affairs. Yet there is a rich constitutional and political history in America suggesting that the constitutional scheme is more Lockean than at first blush, even if informal and hidden in complexity. This paper responds to two distinct, but related, lines of argument that seek to limit especially the executive’s Lockean …

Civil Liberties Advocacy Organizations In Canada: A Survey And Critique, Jeremy Patrick

ExpressO

Civil Liberties Advocacy Organizations in Canada: A Survey and Critique.” This article explores the structure and activities of modern civil liberties groups in Canada through a comparative look with the ACLU in the United States. The thesis of the article is that the Canadian model of having fragmented and isolated groups in some provinces is not as effective as the American model of having a single, national organization with affiliates in each state.

Rotunda - Vol 85, No 16 - Feb 06, 2007, Longwood University

Rotunda

No abstract provided.

Flyer News, Vol. 54, No. 28 (Feb. 13, 2007), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

The Murray Ledger And Times, February 13, 2007, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Are All ‘Legal Dollars’ Created Equal?, Doron Teichman, Yuval Feldman

ExpressO

For several decades law and economic scholars have employed the tools of price theory in order to evaluate an array of legal questions ranging from criminal sanctions to contract remedies. This vast body of literature implicitly assumed that all payments made through the legal system are fungible. In other words, just as a dollar paid for a tomato is identical to a dollar paid for a cucumber, so are a dollar paid as a pollution tax to the government and a dollar paid as compensation to the party injured by the pollution. In this study we challenge this assumption, and …

The New Federal Indian Law, Matthew L.M. Fletcher

ExpressO

Is federal Indian law dead? Despite a declining docket during the Rehnquist Court, the Supreme Court continued to take a disproportionately high number of Indian law cases – and deciding more than 75 percent of them against tribal interests. While many scholars suggest that the Court’s conservative views drive these Indian law decisions and criticize the Court for failing to follow foundational principles of federal Indian law, this Article asserts that the Court’s reasons for granting certiorari and for deciding against tribal interests in these cases are not Indian law-related. Instead, the Court identifies important, unrelated constitutional concerns that appear …

Interrogation Of Detainees: Extending A Hand Or A Boot?, Amos N. Guiora

ExpressO

The so called “war on terror” provides the Bush administration with a unique opportunity to both establish clear guidelines for the interrogation of detainees and to make a forceful statement about American values. How the government chooses to act can promote either an ethical commitment to the norms of civil society, or an attitude analogous to Toby Keith’s “American Way,” where Keith sings that “you’ll be sorry that you messed with the USofA, ‘Cuz we’ll put a boot in your ass, It’s the American Way.”

No aspect of the “war on terrorism” more clearly addresses this balance than coercive interrogation. …