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The New Scheme For Foreign National Prisoners: Vigilance Is Key, Patrick Matthew Hassan-Morlai
The New Scheme For Foreign National Prisoners: Vigilance Is Key, Patrick Matthew Hassan-Morlai
Patrick Matthew Hassan-Morlai
The provision governing the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS) is contained in section 32A of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 as inserted by section 119 of the LASPO Act. In broad terms, TERS applies only to foreign national prisoners whom the secretary of state can remove from the UK if the foreign national prisoner is serving a life sentence that includes an IPP sentence, has served their minimum term, i.e. tariff, and is liable to removal from the UK. Section 119 adopts the definition of liability to removal from the UK in section 259 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
Defense Counsel, Trial Judges, And Evidence Production Protocols, Darryl K. Brown
Defense Counsel, Trial Judges, And Evidence Production Protocols, Darryl K. Brown
Darryl K. Brown
This essay, a contribution to the 2012 Texas Tech Symposium on the Sixth Amendment, argues that constitutional criminal adjudication provisions are fruitfully viewed not primarily as defendant rights but as procedural components that, when employed, maximize the odds that adversarial adjudication will succeed in its various goals, notably accurate judgments. On this view, the state has an interest in how those procedural mechanisms, especially regarding fact investigation and evidence gathering, are invoked or implemented. Deficient attorney performance, on this view, can be understood as a problem of the state’s adversarial adjudication process, for which public officials—notably judges, whose judgments depend …
Notice-And-Comment Sentencing, Stephanos Bibas, Richard A. Bierschbach
Notice-And-Comment Sentencing, Stephanos Bibas, Richard A. Bierschbach
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