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Pushing New Frontiers: Extending Neil To Peremptory Challenges Based On Religious Affiliations, Shirley A. Miranda
Pushing New Frontiers: Extending Neil To Peremptory Challenges Based On Religious Affiliations, Shirley A. Miranda
FIU Law Review
Today, when it comes to peremptory challenges during jury selection in Florida, it is impermissible to strike a venireperson on the basis of their race, ethnicity,or gender. However, as recent as January 2020, the Florida Supreme Court has declined to adjudge whether it is also impermissible to strike a venireperson on the basis of their religious affiliation. Thiscomment will address the aspect of religion and its impact on persons sitting in judgment against others generally and whether religious affiliation qualifies as a valid ground for a peremptory challenge as both the Florida and federal standards for disqualifications are silent as …
Mysterious Ways, Lawrence M. Friedman
Mysterious Ways, Lawrence M. Friedman
FIU Law Review
The “mystery” or “detective” novel originated in the first half of the 19th century, and quickly became extremely popular. Its origins betray changes in English and American society—the same changes that led to innovations in criminal justice, especially the creation of detective squads in the big cities. The goal of the detective was to expose secret crime—crimes committed by confidence men, and others who worked in the shadows. Thousands and thousands of detective novels have been written; they are extremely varied; but they tend to share one common trait: they turn on the problem of hidden personal identities, which the …
Disaggregating Slavery And The Slave Trade, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Disaggregating Slavery And The Slave Trade, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
FIU Law Review
International law prohibits slavery and the slave trade as peremptory norms, customary international law prohibitions and crimes, humanitarian law prohibitions, and non-derogable human rights. Human rights bodies, however, focus on human trafficking, even when slavery and the slave trade—and not human trafficking—are enumerated within their mandates. International human rights law has conflated human trafficking with slavery and the slave trade. Consequently, human trafficking has subsumed the slave trade and, at times, slavery prohibitions, increasing perpetrator impunity for slavery and the slave trade abuses and denying full expressive justice to survivors. This Article disaggregates slavery from the slave trade and slavery …