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New Federal Rules In Sex Offense Cases, Lynn Mclain

All Faculty Scholarship

This article from the November/December 1995 issue of the Maryland Bar Journal details the changes made to the Federal Rules of Evidence following the enactment of the 1994 Comprehensive Crime Bill. Questions raised by the new rules and the response of the Judicial Conference are also discussed.

The Georgia Death Penalty Habeas Corpus Reform Act Of 1995, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

Scholarly Works

On April 10, 1995, Gov. Zell Miller signed into law Georgia's Death Penalty Habeas Corpus Reform Act of 1995. The Act is premised upon the following findings and determinations of the General Assembly: that through direct appeal, sentence review, and habeas corpus the state now provides persons sentenced to death "adequate opportunities" to assert their constitutional rights; that habeas corpus proceedings should not be used by persons sentenced to death "solely as a delaying tactic under the guise of asserting rights;" and that "strict compliance" with habeas corpus procedures "will prevent the waste of limited resources and will eliminate unnecessary …

Sexual Psychopath Legislation: Is There Anywhere To Go But Backwards?, Andrew Horwitz

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Hair Analysis As A Drug Detector, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Research in Brief

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Resolution Of Prison Riots, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Research in Brief

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Reducing Violent Crimes And Intentional Injuries, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

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Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions: Admitting Out-Of-Court Statements Of Child Victims And Witnesses In Louisana, Charles W. Ehrhardt, Ryon M. Mccabe

Scholarly Publications

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Rethinking Adversariness In Nonjury Criminal Trials, Sean Doran, John D. Jackson, Michael L. Seigel

UF Law Faculty Publications

This Article argues that when the jury is withdrawn from the common law criminal trial, the accused suffers an adversarial deficit. This deficit occurs because many of the procedural devices built into the trial process -- particularly those designed to provide the defendant with a meaningful opportunity to contest the case against him and to ensure that any determination of guilt is based solely on the evidence adduced in the courtroom -- are predicated on the existence of a decision-making body that comes "cold" to the contest, devoid of extraneous knowledge concerning the facts of the case or the relevant …

How Juries Decide Death: The Contributions Of The Capital Jury Project, Valerie P. Hans

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

In 1988 I concluded a review of what was then known about capital jury decision-making with the following observations: “[T]he penalty phase presents significant incongruities. The jurors are charged with representing the community's judgment, yet the voir dire and challenge processes have eliminated significant segments of the public from the jury. Jurors have been influenced by preceding events during voir dire questioning and the trial in pivotal ways, yet they are instructed to focus only on aggravating and mitigating evidence. They are told to ignore their emotions in perhaps one of the most emotionally charged decisions they will ever make, …

Section 9: Criminal Law, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

Supreme Court Preview

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Street Gangs And Drug Sales In Two Suburban Cities, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Research in Brief

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The Americans With Disabilities Act And Criminal Justice: Mental Disabilities And Corrections, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

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Violence Prevention: A Vision Of Hope: Final Report, Policy Council On Violence Prevention

California Agencies

In May of 1994, California Attorney General Daniel E. Lungren appointed a Policy Council on Violence Prevention and charged the Council with "studying violence in California and recommending policies and strategies for reversing the pervasive culture of violence in our society." The Council was a diverse, multidisciplinary group representing criminal justice, health, education, business, family violence, parents, youth-serving organizations, media, research, religious and community-action groups, and state agencies.

Council members purposely decided to look at violence from a wide and inclusive viewpoint. The nature of their work, therefore, was deliberately designed to cast a broad net so as to gain …

No Magic Formula: A New Approach For Calculating The Ten Year Time Period For Admission Of Prior Conviction Evidence, Amy E. Sloan

All Faculty Scholarship

Federal Rule of Evidence (FRE) 609 governs admission of prior conviction evidence. Under this rule, it is easier to admit evidence of a prior conviction that is less than ten years old than to admit evidence of older convictions. The ten year period is measured from the later of either the date of conviction or the date of release from confinement.

Calculating the ten year period is fairly straightforward in most cases but becomes confusing when the witness has been confined for violating the terms of probation, parole, or some other period of conditional release. Does the confinement for violation …

Prosecuting Child Physical Abuse Cases: A Case Study In San Diego, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Research in Brief

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Civil Rights And Criminal Justice: Employment Discrimination Overview, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

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Freedom And Criminal Responsibility In The Age Of Pound: An Essay On Criminal Justice, Thomas A. Green

Articles

The concept of freedom has two main aspects: political liberty and freedom of the will. I am concerned here with the latter, although - as these two aspects of freedom are not entirely unrelated to each other - I shall touch also on the former. Enough has been written from a philosophical perspective on the relationship between free will and the law that it is not easy to justify yet another such undertaking. But there may still be room for some informal observations on the manner in which doubts about the concept of freedom of the will affected discussion of …

National Assessment Program: 1994 Survey Results, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Research in Brief

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Controlling Tuberculosis In Community Corrections, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

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Violence In Coronet City: A Problem-Solving Exercise, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

"Violence in Coronet" describes violence as it appeared and was responded to in a major American city in the late 1980's. Although the case is based on real events, it has been augmented both by incorporating statistical information from other cities and by introducing some specific fictional aspects that could have happened in almost any city.

The case was developed to stimulate discussion about how America's cities might best respond to the violence that seems to be overtaking them. Thus, the case combines historical and fictional events to challenge the creativity of those responding to the problem of urban violence. …

An Authentic Life In The Law: A Tribute To James K. Logan, Irma S. Russell

Faculty Works

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A Regime Of Social Death: Criminal Punishment In The Age Of Prisons, Stephen D. Sowle

All Faculty Scholarship

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Epilogue: Making Reconceptualization Of Violence Against Women Real, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Faculty Scholarship

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Judicial Decisions And Linguistic Analysis: Is There A Linguist In The Court?, Lawrence Solan

Faculty Scholarship

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Fantasy, Celebrity, And Homicide, Thomas Morawetz

Faculty Articles and Papers

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An Examination Of The Proposed Crime Of Intervention In The Draft Code Of Crimes Against The Peace And Security Of Mankind, John Linarelli

Scholarly Works

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Considering Copyright Crimes, Roger J. Miner '56

Criminal Law

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Eye On Justice, Roger J. Miner '56

Legal History

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Introduction, Mary Kay Kane

Faculty Scholarship

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Probability And Proof In State V. Skipper: An Internet Exchange, Roger C. Park, Ronald J. Allen

Faculty Scholarship

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