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Liberal Legal Norms Meet Collective Criminality, John D. Ciorciari
Liberal Legal Norms Meet Collective Criminality, John D. Ciorciari
Michigan Law Review
International criminal law ("ICL") tends to focus on the same question asked by the Cambodian survivor above: who was ultimately most responsible? Focusing on the culpability of senior leaders has powerful appeal. It resonates with a natural human tendency to personify misdeeds and identify a primary locus for moral blame. It also serves political ends by putting a face on mass crimes, decapitating the old regime, and leaving room for reconciliation at lower levels. But what happens when smoking guns do not point clearly toward high-ranking officials? And how can the law address the fact that most atrocities are committed …
Federalism And Criminal Law: What The Feds Can Learn From The States, Rachel E. Barkow
Federalism And Criminal Law: What The Feds Can Learn From The States, Rachel E. Barkow
Michigan Law Review
Criminal law enforcement in the United States is multijurisdictional. Local, state, and federal prosecutors all possess the power to bring criminal charges. An enduring question of criminal law is how authority should be allocated among these levels of government. In trying to gain traction on the question of when crime should be handled at the federal level and when it should be left to local authorities, courts and scholars have taken a range of approaches. Oddly, one place that commentators have not looked for guidance on how to handle the issue of law enforcement allocation is within the states themselves. …
Beating A Rap? Defendants Found Incompetent To Stand Trial, Michigan Law Review
Beating A Rap? Defendants Found Incompetent To Stand Trial, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Beating a Rap? Defendants Found Incompetent To Stand Trial by Henry J. Steadman
Mental Disabilities And Criminal Responsibility, Michigan Law Review
Mental Disabilities And Criminal Responsibility, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Mental Disabilities and Criminal Responsibility by Herbert Fingarette and Ann Fingarette Hasse
Criminal Law-Negligent Homicide Statute-Motor Vehicle Operator Suffering From Disease Producing Unconsciousness, Bernard A. Petrie S.Ed.
Criminal Law-Negligent Homicide Statute-Motor Vehicle Operator Suffering From Disease Producing Unconsciousness, Bernard A. Petrie S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Defendant suffered a single, sudden attack of dizziness or unconsciousness. He was warned by a physician, diagnosing his condition as Meniere's Syndrome, that he might at any time, without warning, suffer another such attack. Defendant worked for a year and three months without a recurrence. Then defendant ''blacked out" while driving alone and his automobile crashed into another, causing the death of its driver. The trial judge convicted for statutory negligent homicide. On appeal, held, affirmed. Defendant's driving on a through state highway with knowledge that he might become disabled without warning met the statutory criterion of driving "carelessly …