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Fitness For Trial In The District Court: The Legal Perspective, Darius Whelan
Fitness For Trial In The District Court: The Legal Perspective, Darius Whelan
Darius Whelan
I’Ll Never Forget That Face . . . (But I Might Not Remember It Accurately), Jules Epstein
I’Ll Never Forget That Face . . . (But I Might Not Remember It Accurately), Jules Epstein
Jules Epstein
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Toward A Feminist State: What Does Effective Prosecution Of Domestic Violence Mean?, Michelle Dempsey
Toward A Feminist State: What Does Effective Prosecution Of Domestic Violence Mean?, Michelle Dempsey
Michelle Madden Dempsey
This article examines domestic violence criminal prosecutions and addresses what effective prosecutorial action means in such cases. The argument elaborates on a point recently articulated by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, which links effective prosecution of violence against women to the creation of a less patriarchal society. The article concludes that effective prosecution of domestic violence means prosecution which constitutes the State as less patriarchal ceteris paribus
Rule And Exception In Criminal Law (Or, Are Criminal Defenses Necessary?), Janine Young Kim
Rule And Exception In Criminal Law (Or, Are Criminal Defenses Necessary?), Janine Young Kim
Janine Kim
Magistrates’ Examinations, Police Interrogations, And Miranda—Like Warnings In The Nineteenth Century, Wesley M. Oliver
Magistrates’ Examinations, Police Interrogations, And Miranda—Like Warnings In The Nineteenth Century, Wesley M. Oliver
Wesley M Oliver
The New York legislature in the early-nineteenth century began to require interrogators to warn suspects of their right to silence and counsel. The Warren Court, in Miranda v. Arizona, did not invent the language of the warnings; rather, it resurrected the warnings that were no longer given in New York after the latter half of the nineteenth century. The confessions rule, a judicially created rule of evidence much like the modern voluntariness rule, excluded many statements if any threat or inducement was made to the suspect. Courts in the early-nineteenth century, however, were willing to accept confessions notwithstanding an improper …
Pinochet And The Uncertain Globalization Of Criminal Law, Robert C. Power
Pinochet And The Uncertain Globalization Of Criminal Law, Robert C. Power
Robert C Power