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Lawyers Not In Love, The Defenders And Sixties Tv, Steven Classen

Faculty Publications - Department of Communication and Cinematic Arts

This essay offers a social history and examination of The Defenders as a popular, criti- cally acclaimed television text that negotiated anxieties regarding crime, law, justice, lib- eralism, and masculinity in the 1960s and 1990s. Both The Defenders television series (1961–1965) and the Showtime motion picture series (1997–1998) by the same name rearticulated enduring tensions between law’s formalism and just desires for compassion and mercy, depicting defense attorneys as men who work both inside and outside of “law” to ensure justice and confront the lack of humanism in “the rule of law.” Such discourses are understood and appreciated in different …

Drug Use, Mental Health And Encounters With The Legal System In Missoula County, Samantha Renee Cumley

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

It has been well documented in the criminological literature that drug use and crime co-occur (Eilliot, Huizinga and Ageton 1985, Goldstein 1985). Data from the Missoula Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring Study were used to investigate the relationships between drug use, treatment experiences, encounters with the legal system and amenability. It was hypothesized that substance use and dependence would predict encounters with the legal system. It was also hypothesized that treatment experiences would predict lower drug and alcohol dependency scores and fewer encounters with the legal system. Additionally, substance dependence and encounters with the legal system were expected to predict high …

Military Lawyering At The Edge Of The Rule Of Law At Guantanamo: Should Lawyers Be Permitted To Violate The Law?, Ellen Yaroshefsky

Hofstra Law Review

Military lawyers at Guantanamo Bay are part of and witness to a legal system decried as the gulag of our times and criticized by courts, legislative bodies, and numerous human rights organizations as defying the concept of a fair system. These military lawyers have knowledge that their government has engaged in acts of torture and other violations of fundamental norms of domestic and international laws. This essay asks when, if ever, it is appropriate for a military lawyer to violate a regulation or law in order to uphold the government's obligations to observe fundamental norms of law.

The essay examines …

The Legal Profession's Failure To Discipline Unethical Prosecutors, Angela J. Davis

Hofstra Law Review

This article explores the legal profession's failure to hold prosecutors accountable for misconduct and other ethical violations. Part I introduces the piece, providing several examples of prosecutorial power and abuse in the criminal justice system. Part II discusses prosecutorial misconduct and the inadequacy of current legal remedies. Part III argues that the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility have not provided adequate guidance to prosecutors, and that the disciplinary process has not been effective in disciplining prosecutors when they have abused their power and discretion. Part IV contends that the disbarment of Mike Nifong – the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse …

The Chilling Effect That The Threat Of Sanctions Can Have On Effective Representation In Capital Cases, Richard P. Mauro

Hofstra Law Review

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The Lawyer's "Conscience" And The Limits Of Persuasion, Abbe Smith

Hofstra Law Review

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What Lawyers, What Edge?, Michael E. Tigar

Hofstra Law Review

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Marijuana Abuse In Incarcerated Adolescents: Reasons For Use And Implications For Treatment, Rebecca Lebeau

Open Access Dissertations

Research is needed to better understand marijuana use and effective treatment among the incarcerated adolescent population. Preliminary pilot work in detention indicates that a substantial number (83%) of adolescents are reporting daily marijuana use (Stein et al., 2006). This research attempted to gain a better understanding of the reasons for marijuana use among incarcerated adolescents. The design and intent of this study was to extend basic knowledge of the reasons for marijuana use, establish factors related to marijuana use, and examine if relaxation therapy reduces marijuana use in those who use marijuana as a way to regulate emotions.

Participants were …

My Time On Rikers Island, Michael W. Tillman-Davis

Faculty Publications By Year

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Re-Conceptualizing Poverty Law Clinical Curriculum And Legal Services Practice: The Need For Generalists, Jonel Newman

Articles

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The Effect Of Celebrity-Status On Juror Decision-Making, Mark Skowronski

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Reported frequently in the popular press is a public perception that juries hold celebrities to a different legal standard. This study tested this hypothesis by presenting paiticipants with a trial transcript of a personal injury lawsuit in which the defendant was either a famous male actor or a comparable non-celebrity. Also tested was the hypothesis that the presence of a celebrity would render “jurors” more susceptible to heuristic- processing of trial information. Some participants were informed that the location of the accident was the estate of a famous male actor while for others the estate had non- celebrity ownership. It …

Structural Reform In Criminal Defense: Relocating Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel Claims, Eve Brensike Primus

Cornell Law Review

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Book Reviews

Cornell Law Review

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Manipulating Miranda: United States V. Frazier And The Case-In-Chief Use Of Post-Arrest, Pre-Miranda Silence, Marc Scott Hennes

Cornell Law Review

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Respectful Consideration After Sanchez-Llamas V. Oregon: Why The Supreme Court Owes More To The International Court Of Justice, Steven Arrigg Koh

Cornell Law Review

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I Can See Clearly Now: Videoconference Hearings And The Legal Limit On How Tribunals Allocate Resources, Lorne Sossin, Zimra Yetnikoff

Articles & Book Chapters

Videoconferencing has generated ambivalence in the legal community. Some have heralded its promise of unprecedented access to justice, expecialy for geographicaly remote communities. Others, however, have questioned whether videoconferencing undermines fairness. The authors explore the impl'cations of videoconferencing through the case study of the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Tribunal, which is one of the busiest adjudicative bodies in Canada. This anaysis hig hghts concerns both with videoconferendng in princp4 and in practice. While such concerns traditionally have been the province of public administration, the authors argue that a tribunals allocation of resources and the suffidengy of its budget are also …

The Role Of The International Criminal Court In Enforcing International Criminal Law, Philippe Kirsch

American University International Law Review

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Revisiting The Rules Of Procedure And Evidence Applicable In Adversarial Administrative Deportation Proceedings: Lessons From The Department Of Labor Rules Of Evidence, Won Kidane

Catholic University Law Review

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Misplaced Angst: Another Look At Consent-Search Jurisprudence, Daniel R. Williams

Indiana Law Journal

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The Ncsc Sentencing Attitudes Survey: A Report On The Findings

Indiana Law Journal

Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators Annual Meeting, July 29-August 2, 2006, Indianapolis, Indiana

Survival Or Suffocation: Can Minnesota's New Strangulation Law Overcome Implicit Biases In The Justice System, Archana Nath

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

Bulletin Of The University Of San Diego School Of Law 2007-2009, University Of San Diego. School Of Law

School of Law Course Catalogs (1954-2013)

51 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 25.5 x 18 cm

The Meaning Of American Citizenship In A Post-9/11 World, Peter H. Schuck

Fordham Law Review

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An Empirical Test Of Terrie Moffitt’S Developmental Taxonomy Of Delinquency, Jessica M. Saunders

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Terrie Moffitt (1993) hypothesized that there will be three distinct types of juveniles: (1) Life-course-persistent offenders, who begin their antisocial behavior at a young age and continue to offend over their lives; (2) Adolescence-limited offenders, who are involved in criminal behavior only through their adolescent years, and; (3) Abstainers, who do not engage in any delinquent behavior. This study tested both the theory and methodology using general growth mixture modeling.

The methodological results were conclusive whereas the theoretical ones were less clear. The different latent variable variance structures were freed and fixed to test the best model …

Showup Identifications: A Comprehensive Overview Of The Problems And A Discussion Of Necessary Changes, Amy Luria

Nebraska Law Review

Showup identifications ("showups") are pretrial identifications wherein only one individual is placed before an eyewitness for identification.1 Studies have shown that approximately 40% of eyewitness identifications are mistaken.2 Moreover, there is substantial support for the notion that misidentifications made pursuant to showups are likely more prevalent than misidentifications made pursuant to lineups or photographic arrays. 3 Despite the unreliability of showup identifications, juries generally rely heavily upon these identifications at trial-like they do all eyewitness identifications-even when the defense presents strong evidence that casts substantial doubt upon the accuracy of the identification.4 Due to jury insensitivity to this potential for …

"Misconvictions," Science, And The Ministers Of Justice, Jane Campbell Moriarty

Nebraska Law Review

DNA evidence has exonerated over two hundred wrongfully convicted defendants in the last several years, providing insights into the causes of such convictions. One such cause, faulty scientific evidence, is a focus of this article. For decades, many have written about the prevalence of and reasons for wrongful convictions--what I have termed "misconvictions." A few reasons support the coinage "misconvictions": the miscarriage of justice when an innocent person is convicted; the mistakes involved in the prosecution and trial of the case; the mistaken identification that may have occurred; and finally, the recognition that all wrongful convictions are a missed opportunity …

Employment Law, Bryan P. Neal, Stephen F. Fink, Elizabeth A. Schartz

SMU Law Review

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Nebraska Probation Revocation: A Primer (2007 Revision), Alan G. Gless

State of Nebraska Judicial Branch

The law of probation revocation developed rapidly over the eighteen years preceding this article’s 1989 appearance. While its development has slowed substantially since then, it continues to evolve. The overall field of Nebraska probation revocation remains essentially unchanged from the way it was in 1989 when this article first appeared. The case law has neither burgeoned dramatically nor altered the scenery in major ways, although, it has added a few refinements. But important procedural and substantive wrinkles have appeared through 2003 statutory amendments to the steps probation officers must take in responding to probationers’ violations of the conditions of their …

2007-08 Unopa Annual Report

UNOPA: Annual Reports

INSIDE THIS REPORT President’s Report.....................................1 Elected Officer’s Reports............................4 Financial Statement...................................5 Standing Committee Reports......................6 National Activities....................................18 UNOPA Bylaws........................................20 UNOPA Standing Rules............................25 Duties of Committees..............................26

Valentine National Wildlife Refuge 2007

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

INTRODUCTION

Valentine National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) was established on August 4, 1935 under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act by Executive Order 7142. The purpose of the refuge as stated in the executive order is “as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife.” Acquisition funding came from Duck Stamp sales and the Emergency Conservation Fund Of 1933.

The 71,772-acre Valentine NWR is located in the Sandhills of north-central Nebraska. The Sandhills contain the largest remaining stands of mid and tall grass native prairie left in North America. The refuge is a unique and ecologically important component of …