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Booze, Drugs, And Rock & Roll: Crime During The College Years, Paul S. Gutman
Booze, Drugs, And Rock & Roll: Crime During The College Years, Paul S. Gutman
ExpressO
In this Article, the author examines the predilection of college and university students towards certain types of illegal behaviors. Specifically, the Article considers the widespread instances of drug use, under-age alcohol use, and "file-sharing" using Napster and its progeny. The Article's main focus is on why such illegal behaviors are rampant among college students who might otherwise be
Indianapolis V. Edmond And The Original Understanding Of The Fourth Amendment, Bruce Newman
Indianapolis V. Edmond And The Original Understanding Of The Fourth Amendment, Bruce Newman
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In this article I examine to what extent Indianapolis v. Edmond is in keeping with the original understanding of the Fourth Amendment. I conclude that the Founders were much more concerned with searches of real property, often insisting, not only on suspicion, but also a on warrant when searches of real property are involved. Secondly, while the Founders did not consider warrants necessary for searches and seizures off of real property (which for the sake of simplicity I call searches in public areas) the evidence suggests suspicion was required. Indeed, the Fourth Amendment was a direct response to the British …
When Does A Discharge Of A Bail Bond Discharge The Surety?, Jason D. Katz
When Does A Discharge Of A Bail Bond Discharge The Surety?, Jason D. Katz
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This article examines the situations when a discharge of a bail bond actually discharges the liability of the surety and/ or its agent, the bail bondsman, as interpreted by the courts.
National Identity Cards: Fourth And Fifth Amendment Issues, Daniel J. Steinbock
National Identity Cards: Fourth And Fifth Amendment Issues, Daniel J. Steinbock
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In the past two years there have been serious calls for a national identity system whose centerpiece would be some form of national identity card. Such a system is seen mainly as a tool against terrorists, but also as a useful response to illegal immigration, identity theft, and electoral fraud. Both proponents and opponents have noted the potential constitutional problems of such an identity system, but as yet there has been no published legal analysis of these questions. This article aims to fill that gap by analyzing the Fourth and Fifth Amendment issues in two major features of any likely …
United States V. Bean: Shoveling After The Elephant?, Pannal A. Sanders
United States V. Bean: Shoveling After The Elephant?, Pannal A. Sanders
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Thomas Bean’s felony conviction in Mexico implicated provisions of federal law that preclude certain persons, including specified felons, from owning or trading in firearms and ammunition which have been transported in interstate commerce. 18 USC Sec. 922. Affected persons can seek relief from the federal firearms disability by invoking procedures established in 18 USC Sec. 925(c) under the Dept of Treasury, Director of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (“ATF”). Beginning in 1992, Congress has enacted provisions annually in the ATF’s appropriations laws that ban it from investigating or acting upon Sec. 925(c) applications from individuals. Section 925(c) contains provisions for judicial …
Sentencing And Data: The Not-So-Odd-Couple, Steven Chanenson
Sentencing And Data: The Not-So-Odd-Couple, Steven Chanenson
Steven L. Chanenson
No abstract provided.
Biological Factors Associated With Aggression And Violent Behavior: A Comparative Analysis Of Scientific, Societal, And Legal Dimensions, Troy M. Bear
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A Deadly Dilemma: Strategic Choices By Attorneys Representing "Innocent" Capital Defendants, Welsh S. White
A Deadly Dilemma: Strategic Choices By Attorneys Representing "Innocent" Capital Defendants, Welsh S. White
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Resource Parity For Defense Counsel And The Struggle Between Public Choice And Public Ideals, Ronald F. Wright
Resource Parity For Defense Counsel And The Struggle Between Public Choice And Public Ideals, Ronald F. Wright
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The quality of criminal defense counsel desperately needs improving. The strategy this article explores is not a change in the legal standard governing ineffective assistance of counsel claims, or a change in the Supreme Court's reasoning, but something far more fundamental: money. I ask whether it is feasible to link the funding available for defense lawyers to the money that the government spends on prosecution lawyers - in other words, parity of resources.
For reasons described in this article, resource parity will probably not come from the courts, at least not if they act alone. Major funding changes like this …
Department Of Justice Guidelines: Balancing "Discretionary Justice", Ellen S. Podgor
Department Of Justice Guidelines: Balancing "Discretionary Justice", Ellen S. Podgor
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The Self-Incrimination Clause Explained And Its Future Predicted, Ronald J. Allen
The Self-Incrimination Clause Explained And Its Future Predicted, Ronald J. Allen
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Canadian Fundamental Justice And American Due Process: Two Models For A Guarantee Of Basic Adjudicative Fairness, David M. Siegel
Canadian Fundamental Justice And American Due Process: Two Models For A Guarantee Of Basic Adjudicative Fairness, David M. Siegel
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This paper traces how the Supreme Courts of Canada and the United States have each used the basic guarantee of adjudicative fairness in their respective constitutions to effect revolutions in their countries’ criminal justice systems, through two different jurisprudential models for this development. It identifies a relationship between two core constitutional structures, the basic guarantee and enumerated rights, and shows how this relationship can affect the degree to which entrenched constitutional rights actually protect individuals. It explains that the different models for the relationship between the basic guarantee and enumerated rights adopted in Canada and the United States, an “expansive …
The Coherence Of Orthodox Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, Samuel C. Rickless
The Coherence Of Orthodox Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, Samuel C. Rickless
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In the legal academy it is widely believed that the U.S. Supreme Court's orthodox (post-Katz, pre-Houghton) fourth amendment jurisprudence is theoretically incoherent. In particular, the Court has been criticized (on doctrinal and textual grounds) for accepting (i) Justice Harlan's definition of a "search" as an infringement of a subjective expectation of privacy that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable, (ii) the Warrant Requirement and Probable Cause Requirement (according to which searches and seizures without a warrant or probable cause are presumptively unreasonable), and (iii) the Exclusionary Rule (according to which any evidence obtained in violation of a person’s fourth …
Universal Jurisdiction And Drug Trafficking: A Tool For Fighting One Of The World's Most Pervasive Problems , Anne H. Geraghty
Universal Jurisdiction And Drug Trafficking: A Tool For Fighting One Of The World's Most Pervasive Problems , Anne H. Geraghty
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Universal jurisdiction allows any state to exercise jurisdiction to prosecute a suspect wherever he is found, regardless of the location of his crimes, his nationality, or any other contacts with the prosecuting state. This article proposes that the United States and the international community should take two major steps toward embracing universal jurisdiction as a possible means of combatting drug trafficking. First, states should adopt an additional protocol to the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances clearly establishing universal jurisdiction for drug trafficking and thereby filling jurisdictional gaps in existing treaty law. Second, …
Barbarians At The Gates: A Post-September 11th Proposal To Rationalize The Laws Of War, William C. Bradford
Barbarians At The Gates: A Post-September 11th Proposal To Rationalize The Laws Of War, William C. Bradford
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My article, Barbarians at the Gates: A Proposal to Rationalize the Laws of War. The piece proposes that in the War on Terror a new approach to the laws of war is necessary to harmonize the functional purpose of the law of war with the nature of the threat presented by terrorism to civilization.
Freedom From Fear: Prosecuting The Iraqi Regime For The Use Of Chemical Weapons, Margaret A. Sewell
Freedom From Fear: Prosecuting The Iraqi Regime For The Use Of Chemical Weapons, Margaret A. Sewell
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Since the recent war with Iraq, there is a lingering question as to how to prosecute Saddam Hussein (if captured) and the Iraqi regime for their past atrocities, particularly, the use of chemcial weapons against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War and the Kurds. This article provides a background of the crimes committed by the Iraqi regime, a discussion and recommendation of the various proseution fora, as well as a presentation of the evidence that can be used in a prosecution.
The Last Line Of Defense: The Doctrine Of Command Responsibility, Gender Crimes In Armed Conflict, And The Kahan Report (Sabra & Shatilla), Sherrie L. Russell-Brown
The Last Line Of Defense: The Doctrine Of Command Responsibility, Gender Crimes In Armed Conflict, And The Kahan Report (Sabra & Shatilla), Sherrie L. Russell-Brown
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“THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE” addresses using the doctrine of command responsibility - the doctrine according to which military and non-military leaders can be held individually criminally responsible for the crimes committed by their subordinates - before the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a way to prevent gender crimes in armed conflict. The prevention of gender crimes in armed conflict is an important issue for a variety of reasons. One extremely important reason is the connection that the United Nations has cited between the AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa and rape in armed conflict. In addition, in the August 25, …
Toward A Criminal Law For Cyberspace: Distributed Security, Susan Brenner
Toward A Criminal Law For Cyberspace: Distributed Security, Susan Brenner
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The article analyzes the structure and evolution of the current, traditional model of law enforcement and explains why this model is not an effective means of addressing computer-facilitated criminal activity. It begins by analyzing the operation of rules in collective systems composed of biological or artificial entities; it explains that every such system utilizes basic, constitutive rules to maintain both internal and external order. The article explains that intelligence has a profound effect upon a system’s ability to maintain internal order. Intelligence creates the capacity for deviant behavior, i.e., the refusal to abide by constitutive rules, and this requires the …
Marital Immunity, Intimate Relationships, And Improper Inferences: A New Law On Sexual Offenses By Intimates , Michelle J. Anderson
Marital Immunity, Intimate Relationships, And Improper Inferences: A New Law On Sexual Offenses By Intimates , Michelle J. Anderson
Working Paper Series
Today, to one degree or another, marital immunity for sexual offenses persists in over half the states. Underlying the marital rape immunity has been the assumption that when a woman enters into a marriage, she is giving her ongoing consent to sexual intercourse. Professor Michelle Anderson argues that states must abolish this immunity to make the law formally neutral on the marital status of the parties. However, Professor Anderson argues, such formal neutrality is insufficient. The ideology of ongoing consent underlying the marital rape immunity has infected the way the legal system treats sexual offenses among intimates who are not …
The Conviction Of Andrea Yates: A Narrative Of Denial, Sherry F. Colb
The Conviction Of Andrea Yates: A Narrative Of Denial, Sherry F. Colb
Rutgers Law School (Newark) Faculty Papers
This piece discusses the case of Andrea Yates, the woman who confessed to drowning her five children to death and was subsequently convicted of murder (though the conviction has since been overturned). In this piece, Colb contends that Andrea Yates was convicted because of the jurors’ emotional/psychological response to the possibility that post-partum psychosis could cause an otherwise decent person to commit such brutal acts. As a symptom of denial, Colb argues, the jury rejected the insanity defense and thereby reassured itself that only evil people could do what Yates did. If that were the case, then it would be …
Victim Impact Statements In Capital Trials: A Selected Bibliography, Jean M. Callihan
Victim Impact Statements In Capital Trials: A Selected Bibliography, Jean M. Callihan
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
This bibliography collects and organizes citations to dissertations, chapters in books, journal articles, legislative materials, books, and book reviews from 1980 forward that analyze the effect of victim impact statements in capital cases. The main purpose of the bibliography is to present citations to empirical studies and quantitative evaluations of victim impact statements in the United States and other countries. Because there are few reported empirical studies, the bibliography also contains references to articles that provide qualitative analyses of victim impact statements in criminal trials and of participatory rights of victims in the justice process in general.
The Real-World Shift In Criminal Procedure, Stephanos Bibas
The Real-World Shift In Criminal Procedure, Stephanos Bibas
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Judging Global Justice: Assessing The International Criminal Court, Diane Orentlicher
Judging Global Justice: Assessing The International Criminal Court, Diane Orentlicher
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Dying Twice: Incarceration On Death Row, Michael B. Mushlin
Dying Twice: Incarceration On Death Row, Michael B. Mushlin
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Dying Twice is an important report. The work is a collaboration between the Corrections Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, which I chaired, and the Committee on Capital Punishment of the Association chaired by Norman Greene. The working group that researched and wrote the report was drawn from members of both committees. The attorneys and the physician who served on the committee are wonderful, talented, dedicated people. It was a pleasure to work with professionals of this caliber on such an important effort. Dying Twice was endorsed as the position of the Association …
Two Sides Of A "Sargasso Sea": Successive Prosecution For The "Same Offence" In The United States And The United Kingdom, Lissa Griffin
Two Sides Of A "Sargasso Sea": Successive Prosecution For The "Same Offence" In The United States And The United Kingdom, Lissa Griffin
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article analyzes the U. S. constitutional law interpreting the concept of “same offence.” Included is a survey of the Supreme Court's attempts to interpret constitutional text in order to provide adequate protection for the underlying double jeopardy interest against vexatious reprosecutions, which have frequently produced inconsistent and illogical results. Part III of this article analyzes U.K. law relating to the concept of “same offence,” where the same narrow double jeopardy protection adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court is supplemented with a broad discretion to prevent unfair successive prosecution that constitutes an abuse of process. Part IV draws lessons from …
Apprendi In The States: The Virtues Of Federalism As A Structural Limit On Errors, Stephanos Bibas
Apprendi In The States: The Virtues Of Federalism As A Structural Limit On Errors, Stephanos Bibas
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Harmonizing Substantive-Criminal Law-Values And Criminal Procedure: The Case Of Alford And Nolo Contendere Pleas, Stephanos Bibas
Harmonizing Substantive-Criminal Law-Values And Criminal Procedure: The Case Of Alford And Nolo Contendere Pleas, Stephanos Bibas
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Right To Remain Silent Helps Only The Guilty, Stephanos Bibas
The Right To Remain Silent Helps Only The Guilty, Stephanos Bibas
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Exonerations Change Judicial View On Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Adele Bernhard
Exonerations Change Judicial View On Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Adele Bernhard
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.