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Renewing The Vagueness Challenge To Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude, Melissa London
Renewing The Vagueness Challenge To Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude, Melissa London
Washington Law Review
Noncitizens who have been convicted of a “crime involving moral turpitude” (CIMT) under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) can be deported. However, the INA fails to provide a definition for “moral turpitude” or a list of crimes that necessarily involve “moral turpitude.” As a result, judges are given wide discretion to decide when a crime is morally reprehensible enough to render a noncitizen deportable. This moral determination in the CIMT analysis has led to disparate results among the lower courts, which deprives noncitizens of meaningful notice of what conduct could render them deportable. In 1951, the Supreme Court held …
Case Note: Criminal Law - Due Process - Statute Proscribing Loitering For The Purpose Of Prostitution Is Not Unconstitutionally Vague, Sayde J. Markowitz
Case Note: Criminal Law - Due Process - Statute Proscribing Loitering For The Purpose Of Prostitution Is Not Unconstitutionally Vague, Sayde J. Markowitz
Fordham Urban Law Journal
In this case note, Sayde J. Markowitz analyzes People v. Smith, 88 Misc. 2d 590, 388 N.Y.S.2d 221 (Crim Ct. 1976), rev'd 393 N.Y.S.2d 229 (App. Div. 1st Dep't 1977). At approximately 2:15 a.m. on July 12, 1976, a police officer observed defendant female converse with two male passersby. Soon thereafter, defendant conversed with a third male with whom she entered a building known to accommodate prostitutes and their clientele. The two left the building a short time later. Defendant Smith was arrested and charged with violating section 240.37 of the New York Penal Law, which prohibits loitering for the …