Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Criminal Law

1980

Institution
Keyword
Publication
Publication Type

Articles 1 - 30 of 160

Full-Text Articles in Law

Hearing On Child Molestation, Joint Committee On Revision Of The Penal Code Dec 1980

Hearing On Child Molestation, Joint Committee On Revision Of The Penal Code

California Joint Committees

No abstract provided.


Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1980 Dec 1980

Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1980

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law, Joseph J. Drolet Dec 1980

Criminal Law, Joseph J. Drolet

Mercer Law Review

Criminal law and procedure took some interesting and curious turns during the period of this survey. This article will first cover some of the most novel and notable case decisions of the year. Then a summary will be given of the changes wrought by the 1980 Georgia General Assembly. Finally, some of the recent trends in case law handed down by Georgia's appellate courts will be discussed.


Recent Amendments To The Texas Child Abuse Statutes: An Analysis And Recommendation., Antoinette M. Pollock Dec 1980

Recent Amendments To The Texas Child Abuse Statutes: An Analysis And Recommendation., Antoinette M. Pollock

St. Mary's Law Journal

Each year approximately one million children experience abuse by their parents and more than two thousand die as a result of injuries suffered. Drafters of child abuse legislation face the difficult task of accommodating the rights of parent and child, while ensuring the necessary exercise of state authority. In view of the delicate balancing of interests involved, child protection laws must be extensive and detailed in order to withstand constitutional challenge. The Sixty-sixth session of the Texas Legislature amended the child abuse section of the Texas Family Code. The Texas Family Code, as amended, is now capable of withstanding constitutional …


Child Molestation, Assembly Committee On Criminal Justice Nov 1980

Child Molestation, Assembly Committee On Criminal Justice

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


Plea Bargaining, Joint Committee For Revision Of The Penal Code Oct 1980

Plea Bargaining, Joint Committee For Revision Of The Penal Code

California Joint Committees

No abstract provided.


Mentally Disordered Violent Offenders, Assembly Health Committee Oct 1980

Mentally Disordered Violent Offenders, Assembly Health Committee

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


Specific Performance Of "Unfulfillable" Plea Bargains, Stuart L. Gasner Oct 1980

Specific Performance Of "Unfulfillable" Plea Bargains, Stuart L. Gasner

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This article discusses how courts have handled the remedy dilemma presented by unfulfillable plea bargains. Part I analyzes the seminal Supreme Court opinion on the broken plea bargain question, Santobello v. New York. This section concludes that choice-of-remedy is not entirely a matter of lower court discretion. Rather, Santobello delegates to lower courts the authority to develop a law of remedies which conforms to the underlying principles of that decision. Part I also focuses on what courts have done with this mandate, discussing the elements of decision courts have developed to remedy unfulfillable plea bargains. Finally, Part II suggests …


Estelle V. Smith, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1980

Estelle V. Smith, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Edwards V. Arizona, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1980

Edwards V. Arizona, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Michael M. V. Superior Court Of Sonoma County, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1980

Michael M. V. Superior Court Of Sonoma County, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


New York V. Belton, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1980

New York V. Belton, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Michigan V. Summers, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1980

Michigan V. Summers, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Steagald V. United States, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1980

Steagald V. United States, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


United States V. Cortez, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1980

United States V. Cortez, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Carter V. Kentucky, Lewis F. Powell Jr Oct 1980

Carter V. Kentucky, Lewis F. Powell Jr

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Criminal Trials In Absentia: A Proposed Reform For Indiana, Myra L. Willis Oct 1980

Criminal Trials In Absentia: A Proposed Reform For Indiana, Myra L. Willis

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


United States V. Henry, 100 S. Ct. 2183 (1980), Paula Walborsky Oct 1980

United States V. Henry, 100 S. Ct. 2183 (1980), Paula Walborsky

Florida State University Law Review

Criminal Law-RECRUITED GOVERNMENT INFORMANTS: WHEN DOES THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL ATTACH?


State V. Pinder, 375 So. 2d 836 (Fla. 1979), Lesley J. Friedsam Oct 1980

State V. Pinder, 375 So. 2d 836 (Fla. 1979), Lesley J. Friedsam

Florida State University Law Review

Criminal Law-DOUBLE JEOPARDY-AN EXAMINATION OF SENTENCING IN FLORIDA FOR THE UNDERLYING FELONY IN A FELONY MURDER CASE AFTER Whalen v. United States


Drugs And Criminal Responsibility, Edward H. Benton, Andrew Bor, William H. Leech, Joyce A. Levy, Samuel D. Lipshie, Thomas B. Mitchell, Gary M. Brown Oct 1980

Drugs And Criminal Responsibility, Edward H. Benton, Andrew Bor, William H. Leech, Joyce A. Levy, Samuel D. Lipshie, Thomas B. Mitchell, Gary M. Brown

Vanderbilt Law Review

This Special Project has carried out three broad purposes.First, it has synthesized and organized materials concerning drugs and criminal responsibility into a useful guide for legal practitioners and others interested in the problems of the drug dependent defendant. Second, it has identified serious analytical flaws in many of the defenses available to the criminal defendant. Finally,it has responded to these deficiencies with proposals intended to protect not only the legal rights of the drug dependent defendant but also the rights of society pertaining to criminal justice. While these societal interests include the swift imposition of criminal penalties when warranted, they …


The Jurisprudence Of Larceny:An Historical Inquiry And Interest Analysis, Kathleen F. Brickey Oct 1980

The Jurisprudence Of Larceny:An Historical Inquiry And Interest Analysis, Kathleen F. Brickey

Vanderbilt Law Review

This Article tenders such a reconstruction and develops the theory that ownership, rather than possession, was the legal interest protected by common-law larceny. The theory is derived from analysis of the content of early theft law and the procedural forms through which property rights were vindicated.


Gag Orders, Assembly Committee On Criminal Justice Sep 1980

Gag Orders, Assembly Committee On Criminal Justice

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


Teh Exclusionary Rule, Assembly Committee On Criminal Justice Sep 1980

Teh Exclusionary Rule, Assembly Committee On Criminal Justice

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


09-09-1980 Preliminary Memorandum, John E. Sexton Sep 1980

09-09-1980 Preliminary Memorandum, John E. Sexton

Beltran v. Myers, 451 U.S. 625 (1981)

SUMMARY: This class action challenges the validity under federal law of California's "transfer-of-assets" rule governing eligibility for Medi-Cal benefits. It is straight-lined with Barbara Blum v Ethel Caldwell, 79-2034, which involves the New York "transfer-of-assests" rule.


Incapacitating The Habitual Criminal: The English Experience, Sir Leon Radzinowicz, Roger Hood Aug 1980

Incapacitating The Habitual Criminal: The English Experience, Sir Leon Radzinowicz, Roger Hood

Michigan Law Review

In this Article, Sir Leon Radzinowicz and .Dr. Roger Hood trace 150 years of unsuccessful English efforts to identify, sentence, and reform habitual criminal offenders. The Supreme Court's recent decision in Rummel v. Estelle has publicized habitual offender statutes in the United States. But Rummel primarily addressed the constitutionality, rather than the desirability, of a state habitual offender statute. This Article examines the broader policy questions common to habitual offender programs in both the United Stales and Great Britain. It describes the tension between liberal tradition and the state's desire to incapacitate those who repeatedly threaten life or property.


An Application Of Double Jeopardy And Collateral Estoppel Principles To Successive Prison Disciplinary And Criminal Prosecutions, Joseph S. Colussi Jul 1980

An Application Of Double Jeopardy And Collateral Estoppel Principles To Successive Prison Disciplinary And Criminal Prosecutions, Joseph S. Colussi

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Court-Ordered Community Service In Criminal Law: The Continuing Tyranny Of Benevolence?, Alan T. Harland Jul 1980

Court-Ordered Community Service In Criminal Law: The Continuing Tyranny Of Benevolence?, Alan T. Harland

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Common Law And Reform Rape Statutes On Prosecution: An Empirical Study, Wallace D. Loh Jun 1980

The Impact Of Common Law And Reform Rape Statutes On Prosecution: An Empirical Study, Wallace D. Loh

Washington Law Review

In July 1975, riding the crest of the national reform movement, the Washington State legislature enacted a new rape law that repealed a centenarian, common law-based statute. This article presents the results of an empirical study of the effects of the common law and reform rape statutes on prosecution in King County (Seattle), Washington, and assesses the implications of the findings for the law of rape and for prosecutorial discretion in the charging of rape. To the extent that definitional elements of the new Washington law have parallels in reform statutes of other states, and the statistical profile of the …


Mandatory Life Imprisonment Under Texas Recidivist Statute Not Violative Of Eighth Amendment When Applied To One Convicted Of Three Non-Violent, Property-Related Felonies., Patricia E. Rant Jun 1980

Mandatory Life Imprisonment Under Texas Recidivist Statute Not Violative Of Eighth Amendment When Applied To One Convicted Of Three Non-Violent, Property-Related Felonies., Patricia E. Rant

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.


Criminal Law—Mandatory Jail Sentences: An Effective Solution To The Drunk Driver Crisis?—Wash. Rev. Code § 46.61.515 (1979), John T. Oliver Jun 1980

Criminal Law—Mandatory Jail Sentences: An Effective Solution To The Drunk Driver Crisis?—Wash. Rev. Code § 46.61.515 (1979), John T. Oliver

Washington Law Review

In 1979 the Washington Legislature amended the drunk driver statute to prescribe a minimum mandatory one-day jail sentence. This sanction is an inappropriate response to the existing crisis of intoxicated drivers on state roads and highways. It is unlikely that the mandatory jail term will be more than marginally effective as a deterrent to drunk driving; this sanction has not previously proven effective as a deterrent for the offense of driving while intoxicated (DWI). Moreover, the amended statute is likely to create substantial practical problems. By restricting the flexibility of the criminal justice system and increasing the likelihood that offenders …