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Bad Samaritanism And The Duty To Render Aid: A Proposal, Mark K. Obseck
Bad Samaritanism And The Duty To Render Aid: A Proposal, Mark K. Obseck
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Part I of this Note explains the history of the law's response to Bad Samaritanism. Part II discusses the benefits of enacting a duty to notify. Part III responds to various objections that might be raised against the duty to notify. And Part IV offers a model statute for legislatures to follow in enacting the duty to notify.
On The Threshold Of Wainwright V Sykes: Federal Habeas Court Scrutiny Of State Procedural Rules And Rulings, Michigan Law Review
On The Threshold Of Wainwright V Sykes: Federal Habeas Court Scrutiny Of State Procedural Rules And Rulings, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Note examines specific problems which stand on the threshold of Wainwright v. Sykes. Resolution of these problems is necessary to determine whether a state ruling is based upon an adequate state procedural ground, requiring application of the cause-and-prejudice test before habeas review will be permitted. Part I analyzes the rationale for the rule of Wainwright v. Sykes as well as its historical underpinnings. Part II examines the treatment of state court decisions that are based both on a defaulted claim and, in the alternative, on the merits of that claim. This Part concludes that decisions containing such alternative …
Some Enlightenment On Crime, Shirley S. Abrahamson
Some Enlightenment On Crime, Shirley S. Abrahamson
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice Edited by Sanford H. Kadish
Cannibalism And The Common Law: The Story Of The Tragic Last Voyage Of The Mignonette And The Strange Legal Proceedings To Which It Gave Rise, Michigan Law Review
Cannibalism And The Common Law: The Story Of The Tragic Last Voyage Of The Mignonette And The Strange Legal Proceedings To Which It Gave Rise, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the Mignonette and the Strange Legal Proceedings to Which it Gave Rise by A.W. Brian Simpson
The Heroin Solution, Michigan Law Review
The Heroin Solution, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Heroin Solution by Arnold S. Trebach
Capital Punishment: For Or Against, Jan Gorecki
Capital Punishment: For Or Against, Jan Gorecki
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Death Penalty -- A Debate by Ernest van den Haag and John Conrad
Abscam And The Constitution, Louis Michael Seidman
Abscam And The Constitution, Louis Michael Seidman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of ABSCAM Ethics: Moral Issues and Deception in Law Enforcement by Gerald M. Caplan
Just And Painful: A Case For The Corporal Punishment Of Criminals, Michigan Law Review
Just And Painful: A Case For The Corporal Punishment Of Criminals, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Just and Painful: A Case for the Corporal Punishment of Criminals by Graeme Newman
Born To Crime: The Genetic Causes Of Criminal Behavior, Michigan Law Review
Born To Crime: The Genetic Causes Of Criminal Behavior, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Born to Crime: The Genetic Causes of Criminal Behavior by Lawrence Taylor
"How Can You Defend Those People?" The Making Of A Criminal Lawyer, Michigan Law Review
"How Can You Defend Those People?" The Making Of A Criminal Lawyer, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of "How Can You Defend Those People?" The Making of a Criminal Lawyer by James S. Kunen
Black Innocence And The White Jury, Sheri Lynn Johnson
Black Innocence And The White Jury, Sheri Lynn Johnson
Michigan Law Review
Racial prejudice has come under increasingly close scrutiny during the past thirty years, yet its influence on the decisionmaking of criminal juries remains largely hidden from judicial and critical examination. In this Article, Professor Johnson takes a close look at this neglected area. She first sets forth a large body of social science research that reveals a widespread tendency among whites to convict black defendants in instances in which white defendants would be acquitted. Next, she argues that none of the existing techniques for eliminating the influence of racial bias on criminal trials adequately protects minority-race defendants. She contends that …