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Asymmetries And Incentives In Plea Bargaining And Evidence Production, Saul Levmore, Ariel Porat
Asymmetries And Incentives In Plea Bargaining And Evidence Production, Saul Levmore, Ariel Porat
Ariel Porat
Legal rules severely restrict payments to fact witnesses, though the government can often offer plea bargains or other nonmonetary inducements to encourage testimony. This asymmetry is something of a puzzle, for most asymmetries in criminal law favor the defendant. The asymmetry seems to disappear where physical evidence is at issue. One goal of this Essay is to understand the distinctions, or asymmetries, between monetary and nonmonetary payments, testimonial and physical evidence, and payments by the prosecution as opposed to the defense. Another is to suggest ways in which law could better encourage the production of evidence, and thus the efficient …
Perfecting Criminal Markets, David Jaros
Perfecting Criminal Markets, David Jaros
All Faculty Scholarship
From illicit drugs to human smuggling to prostitution, legislators may actually be perfecting the very criminal markets they seek to destroy. Criminal laws often create new dangers and new criminal opportunities. Criminalizing drugs creates the opportunity to sell fake drugs. Raising the penalties for illegal immigration increases the risk that smugglers will rely on dangerous methods that can injure or kill their human cargo. Banning prostitution increases the underground spread of sexually transmitted disease. Lawmakers traditionally respond to these “second order” problems in predictable fashion — with a new wave of criminalization that imposes additional penalties on fake drug dealers, …
Book Review: Negotiating The Labyrinth: Disability And The Queensland Justice System By Dan Toombs, Jodie O'Leary
Book Review: Negotiating The Labyrinth: Disability And The Queensland Justice System By Dan Toombs, Jodie O'Leary
Jodie O'Leary
No abstract provided.
Gender And Sentencing: Single Moms, Battered Women, And Other Sex-Based Anomalies In The Gender-Free World Of The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Myrna S. Raeder
Gender And Sentencing: Single Moms, Battered Women, And Other Sex-Based Anomalies In The Gender-Free World Of The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Myrna S. Raeder
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Punishment Need Not Fit The Crime: Harmelin V. Michigan And The Eigth Amendment, Scott K. Petersen
The Punishment Need Not Fit The Crime: Harmelin V. Michigan And The Eigth Amendment, Scott K. Petersen
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Federal Common Law Of Crime, Robert C. Palmer
The Federal Common Law Of Crime, Robert C. Palmer
Robert T. Palmer, PhD
No abstract provided.
Police Can Stop You For Having A License Plate Bracket On Your Car, Beau James Brock, Rikki Weger
Police Can Stop You For Having A License Plate Bracket On Your Car, Beau James Brock, Rikki Weger
Beau James Brock
The Fourth Amendment must be protected from police excesses. Now, law enforcement is relying upon the most hyper-technical of violations to stop a vehicle. Both attorneys and judges must guard against the temptation that the ends will justify the means, only to find out later we sold out our freedom to the golden calf of drug interdiction.
Fugitives In Immigration: A Call For Legislative Guidelines On Disentitlement, Kiran H. Griffith
Fugitives In Immigration: A Call For Legislative Guidelines On Disentitlement, Kiran H. Griffith
Seattle University Law Review
In light of Supreme Court jurisprudence regarding the fugitive disentitlement doctrine, the circuit courts of appeal have readily expanded the doctrine’s use to civil matters, as well as immigration. But the Supreme Court’s nuanced treatment of the rationales underlying this doctrine, specifically in Ortega-Rodriguez v. United States and Degen v. United States, has led to inconsistent application across the circuits. Specifically, a split has arisen among the Second, Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits as to whether these rationales support invocation of the fugitive disentitlement doctrine to find fugitivity and dismiss an alien’s petition for review when an alien fails to …
The Revival Of Reliance And Prospectivity: Chevron Oil In The Immigration Context, Elliot Watson
The Revival Of Reliance And Prospectivity: Chevron Oil In The Immigration Context, Elliot Watson
Seattle University Law Review
Using Duran Gonzales as an example, this Comment discusses how courts determine when and if conflicting rules of law should be applied retroactively to aliens. Specifically, it argues that the holding in Nunez-Reyes and its use of the Chevron Oil test should be applied broadly to limit the retroactive application of law in certain immigration cases. Part II of this Comment gives a brief overview of Supreme Court retroactivity jurisprudence, the discretionary application of adjudicative retroactivity as described in Chevron Oil, and the Court’s recent shift toward a more conservative approach. Part III discusses how administrative law affects that framework …
Guns And Ammo: For Convicted Americans Viewing Pictures Of Others Enjoying Their Constitutional Right To Bear Arms In A Magazine Is The Closest They Will Ever Get To Seeing The Second Amendment At Work - People V. Hughes, Ronald P. Perry
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Letter From The Editor, Monica Trigoso
Letter From The Editor, Monica Trigoso
American University Criminal Law Brief
No abstract provided.
Supreme Court Watch:Recent Decisions Of Selected Criminal Cases, Max P. Salazar, Jr.
Supreme Court Watch:Recent Decisions Of Selected Criminal Cases, Max P. Salazar, Jr.
American University Criminal Law Brief
No abstract provided.
Professionalism And Advocacy At Trial – Real Jurors Speak In Detail About The Performance Of Their Advocates, Mitchell J. Frank, Osvaldo F. Morera
Professionalism And Advocacy At Trial – Real Jurors Speak In Detail About The Performance Of Their Advocates, Mitchell J. Frank, Osvaldo F. Morera
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Neuroscience And Post-Sentence Civil Commitment: A Response To Professors Erickson And Goldberg, Adam Lamparello
Neuroscience And Post-Sentence Civil Commitment: A Response To Professors Erickson And Goldberg, Adam Lamparello
Adam Lamparello
Our knowledge of human behavior, particularly when it comes to assessing what a person may do in the future, continues to develop. Neuroscience has provided insight into whether a person is likely to engage in further acts of violence. It is important to proceed cautiously, but to proceed nonetheless, because contemporary efforts to uncover the biological roots of violence have much more promise than their predecessors.
"Destinations:" A Comparison Of Sex Trafficking In India And The United States, Sarah Montana Hart
"Destinations:" A Comparison Of Sex Trafficking In India And The United States, Sarah Montana Hart
Sarah Montana Hart
This paper finds similarities in the sex trafficking industries in the United States and India, and offers some suggestions for the international community moving forward.
"Bad Juror" Lists And The Prosecutor's Duty To Disclose, Ira Robbins
"Bad Juror" Lists And The Prosecutor's Duty To Disclose, Ira Robbins
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Prosecutors sometimes use what are known as "bad juror" lists to exclude particular citizens from jury service. Not only does this practice interfere with an open and fair jury-selection process, thus implicating a defendant's right to be tried by a jury of his or her peers, but it also violates potential jurors' rights to serve in this important capacity. But who is on these lists? And is a prosecutor required to disclose the lists to defense counsel? These questions have largely gone unnoticed by legal analysts. This Article addresses the prosecutor's duty to disclose bad-juror lists. It reviews the federal …
Criminal Justice Models: Canadian Experience In European And Islamic Comparative Perspective, Bruce P. Archibald
Criminal Justice Models: Canadian Experience In European And Islamic Comparative Perspective, Bruce P. Archibald
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
This paper examines Canadian models of criminal justice in a European and Islamic comparative perspective. The traditional model of Canadian criminal justice is a state centred adversarial one intended to punish, deter and/or rehabilitate offenders who are accorded formal due process protections embedded in a liberal constitutional and procedural rights. This model has been transformed recently into an ambiguously tripartite adversarial model through an overlay of victims’ rights at all stages. However, Canadian law also recognizes alternative processes through various forms of problem solving courts and sometimes comprehensive restorative justice approaches, the latter rooted in relational notions of rights. Meanwhile, …
Book Review: International Human Rights And Mental Disability Law: When The Silenced Are Heard, Robert M. Sanger
Book Review: International Human Rights And Mental Disability Law: When The Silenced Are Heard, Robert M. Sanger
Robert M. Sanger
Close Test Scores And Epigenetics In Atkins Cases, Robert M. Sanger
Close Test Scores And Epigenetics In Atkins Cases, Robert M. Sanger
Robert M. Sanger
In the Atkins case, the United States Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional to execute a person who was intellectually disabled (mentally retarded). An IQ score is evidence that can be considered in making the determination of whether a particular individual is intellectually disabled. Certain prosecution experts seek to add points to the scores of African Americans as a form of "ethnic adjustment" making those individuals more susceptible to being put to death. This article examines the molecular biology issues that may have an effect on whether such points should properly be added.
Massachusetts Firearms Prosecutions In The Wake Of Melendez-Diaz, Kevin P. Chapman
Massachusetts Firearms Prosecutions In The Wake Of Melendez-Diaz, Kevin P. Chapman
Kevin P. Chapman
The Supreme Court ruling in Melendez-Diaz fundamentally changed the way that firearms offenses are prosecuted in Massachusetts. This paper presents the history of firearms prosecutions and the current state of the law, and it raises several unanswered questions that could further change the nature of future firearms prosecutions.
"Bad Juror" Lists And The Prosecutor's Duty To Disclose, Ira P. Robbins
"Bad Juror" Lists And The Prosecutor's Duty To Disclose, Ira P. Robbins
Ira P. Robbins
The Practice Of Criminal Defence: Why We Fight And Defend Those Most Imperilled, Every Day, Beau James Brock
The Practice Of Criminal Defence: Why We Fight And Defend Those Most Imperilled, Every Day, Beau James Brock
Beau James Brock
Being a criminal defense attorney is a special calling. Aside from dealing with the human element, they also fight daily to see the government acts within the bounds established by the Bill of Rights.