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Terry V.Ohio, Massiah V. United States, And Zurcher V. Stanford Daily, Robert Bloom Oct 2013

Terry V.Ohio, Massiah V. United States, And Zurcher V. Stanford Daily, Robert Bloom

Robert Bloom

No abstract provided.


Drug Testing In Public Schools, Robert Bloom Oct 2013

Drug Testing In Public Schools, Robert Bloom

Robert Bloom

No abstract provided.


The Story Of Pottawatomie County V. Lindsay Earls: Drug Testing In The Public Schools, Robert Bloom Oct 2013

The Story Of Pottawatomie County V. Lindsay Earls: Drug Testing In The Public Schools, Robert Bloom

Robert Bloom

No abstract provided.


Debate On Fourth Amendment Issues In Homeland Security Law, Robert Bloom Oct 2013

Debate On Fourth Amendment Issues In Homeland Security Law, Robert Bloom

Robert Bloom

No abstract provided.


Border Searches, Terrorism, And The Fourth Amendment, Robert Bloom Oct 2013

Border Searches, Terrorism, And The Fourth Amendment, Robert Bloom

Robert Bloom

No abstract provided.


Jury Trial In Japan, Robert Bloom Oct 2013

Jury Trial In Japan, Robert Bloom

Robert Bloom

No abstract provided.


Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture Of The Criminal System, Alexandra Natapoff Nov 2008

Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture Of The Criminal System, Alexandra Natapoff

Alexandra Natapoff

The criminal system has an uneasy relationship with information. On the one hand, the criminal process is centrally defined by stringent evidentiary and information rules and a commitment to public transparency. On the other, largely due to the dominance of plea bargaining, criminal liability is determined by all sorts of unregulated, non-public information that never pass through the quality control of evidentiary, discovery, or other criminal procedure restrictions. The result is a process that generates determinations of liability that are often unmoored from systemic information constraints. This phenomenon is exemplified, and intensified, by the widespread use of criminal informants, or …


De La Denuncia A La Sanción: Sistema Penal Peruano Y Procesamiento De Delitos Sexuales, Beatriz Ramirez, Clea Guerra Nov 2008

De La Denuncia A La Sanción: Sistema Penal Peruano Y Procesamiento De Delitos Sexuales, Beatriz Ramirez, Clea Guerra

Beatriz Ramirez

Es una publicación que analiza la tramitación de los delitos contra la libertad sexual en el Perú. Analiza la legislación procesal vigente aún en varias regiones del país: el Codigo de Procedimientos Penales. No se considera el proceso que viene siendo implementado con el nuevo Código Procesal Penal del año 2004.


Coming Soon To A Court Near You – Convicting The Unrepresented At The Bail Stage: An Autopsy Of A State High Court’S Sua Sponte Rejection Of Indigent Defendants’ Right To Counsel, Douglas L. Colbert Oct 2008

Coming Soon To A Court Near You – Convicting The Unrepresented At The Bail Stage: An Autopsy Of A State High Court’S Sua Sponte Rejection Of Indigent Defendants’ Right To Counsel, Douglas L. Colbert

Douglas L. Colbert

Recently, the Maryland Court of Appeals became the first state court of last resort to reject Gideon v. Wainwright’s guarantee of counsel at the bail stage. In ruling sua sponte that bail is not a critical stage entitling indigent defendants to invoke their constitutional right to counsel, the Fenner Court held that statements offered by an unrepresented and non-Mirandized indigent defendant were admissible at trial. I contend that the Fenner ruling may transform the pretrial fact-gathering process by providing prosecutors with an additional source of evidence against indigent defendants, namely statements made at a judicial proceeding for the purpose of …


Drug Testing In Public Schools, Robert Bloom Mar 2008

Drug Testing In Public Schools, Robert Bloom

Robert M. Bloom

No abstract provided.


Border Searches, Terrorism, And The Fourth Amendment, Robert Bloom Mar 2008

Border Searches, Terrorism, And The Fourth Amendment, Robert Bloom

Robert M. Bloom

No abstract provided.


Derechos De Las Víctimas, Felipe Marín Mar 2008

Derechos De Las Víctimas, Felipe Marín

Felipe Marín Verdugo

No abstract provided.


Debate On Fourth Amendment Issues In Homeland Security Law, Robert Bloom Jan 2008

Debate On Fourth Amendment Issues In Homeland Security Law, Robert Bloom

Robert M. Bloom

No abstract provided.


Discretion Without Guidance, William W. Berry Iii Jan 2008

Discretion Without Guidance, William W. Berry Iii

William W Berry III

The exercise of the discretion accorded to a judge in determining the sentence of a convicted criminal offender bears directly on the coherence and the legitimacy of any criminal justice system. The United States federal criminal sentencing system has, at various points in time over the past century, employed schemes that have approached either the one extreme of unfettered judicial discretion or the other extreme of highly restricted judicial discretion. In January, 2005, the United States Supreme Court held in United States v. Booker that the mandatory federal sentencing guidelines, the source of the strict restriction on judicial discretion for …


American Procedural Exceptionalism, William W. Berry Iii Jan 2008

American Procedural Exceptionalism, William W. Berry Iii

William W Berry III

This article offers a new theory to explain the persistence of the death penalty in the United States at a time when most western nations have abolished it. Contrary to cultural explanations that have been advanced by other scholars, this piece hypothesizes that the retention is best explained by "American procedural exceptionalism," defined as the unique American belief in the efficacy and fairness of its legal process. This American exceptionalism of process validates the expression of the impulse toward retribution commonly found in western nations. In other words, the perceived fairness of the process affirms the retributive notion that the …


Progress In International Law - An Explanation Of The Project, Russell Miller Dec 2007

Progress In International Law - An Explanation Of The Project, Russell Miller

Russell A. Miller

No abstract provided.


Hamdan V. Rumsfeld, Russell Miller Dec 2007

Hamdan V. Rumsfeld, Russell Miller

Russell A. Miller

No abstract provided.


Comparative Law And Germany's Militant Democracy, Russell Miller Dec 2007

Comparative Law And Germany's Militant Democracy, Russell Miller

Russell A. Miller

No abstract provided.


Terry V.Ohio, Massiah V. United States, And Zurcher V. Stanford Daily, Robert Bloom Dec 2007

Terry V.Ohio, Massiah V. United States, And Zurcher V. Stanford Daily, Robert Bloom

Robert M. Bloom

No abstract provided.


Introduction: U.S. National Security, Intelligence And Democracy: From The Church Committee To The War On Terror, Russell Miller Dec 2007

Introduction: U.S. National Security, Intelligence And Democracy: From The Church Committee To The War On Terror, Russell Miller

Russell A. Miller

No abstract provided.


Paradoxes Of Personality: Transnational Corporations, Non-Governmental Organizations And Human Rights In International Law, Russell Miller Dec 2007

Paradoxes Of Personality: Transnational Corporations, Non-Governmental Organizations And Human Rights In International Law, Russell Miller

Russell A. Miller

No abstract provided.


The Story Of Pottawatomie County V. Lindsay Earls: Drug Testing In The Public Schools, Robert Bloom Dec 2007

The Story Of Pottawatomie County V. Lindsay Earls: Drug Testing In The Public Schools, Robert Bloom

Robert M. Bloom

No abstract provided.


Drugs And Justice, Erik Luna, Margaret Battin Dec 2007

Drugs And Justice, Erik Luna, Margaret Battin

Erik Luna

No abstract provided.


Jury Trial In Japan, Robert Bloom Dec 2007

Jury Trial In Japan, Robert Bloom

Robert M. Bloom

No abstract provided.


Progressive Era, Richard Adelstein Dec 2007

Progressive Era, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A short interpretive summary of the period 1890 - 1914.


Beyond Manson And Lukolongo: A Critique Of American And Zambian Eyewitness Law With Recommendations For Reform In The Developing World, Nicholas Kahn-Fogel Dec 2007

Beyond Manson And Lukolongo: A Critique Of American And Zambian Eyewitness Law With Recommendations For Reform In The Developing World, Nicholas Kahn-Fogel

Nicholas Kahn-Fogel

This article is a comparative analysis of U.S. and Zambian eyewitness law. I analyze the two countries' approaches to eyewitness law in the context of the longstanding debate on whether rules or standards best effectuate underlying social values. With regard to the United States, I conclude that either a rule or a standard for admission of eyewitness evidence could provide effective protection of defendants' due process rights while also promoting the societal interest in admitting reliable proof of guilt. I then conduct the first comprehensive analysis of Zambian eyewitness cases and conclude that Zambian eyewitness law is, in some ways, …


‘Move On’ Orders As Fourth Amendment Seizures, Stephen E. Henderson Dec 2007

‘Move On’ Orders As Fourth Amendment Seizures, Stephen E. Henderson

Stephen E Henderson

If a police officer orders one to move on, must the recipient comply? This article analyzes whether there is a federal constitutional right to remain, and in particular whether a police command to move on constitutes a seizure of the person for purposes of the Fourth Amendment. Although it is a close question, I conclude that the Fourth Amendment typically does not restrict a move on (MO) order, and that substantive due process only prohibits the most egregious such orders. It is a question of broad significance given the many legitimate reasons police might order persons to move on, as …