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Current Status Of The Traditional Duty Of The Attorney To Serve Without Compensation Upon Court Appointment, Henry M. Hills

West Virginia Law Review

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A Child's Well Being V. A Defendant's Right To Confrontation, Todd H. Neuman

West Virginia Law Review

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Statutes Of Repose And The Construction Industry: A Proposal For New York, Andrew Alpern

Cardozo Law Review

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Pretrial Drug Testing: Is It Vulnerable To Due Process Challenges?, Peter H. Meyers

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Pretrial Drug Testing?An Essential Component Of The National Drug Control Strategy, Reggie B. Walton, Gary J. Peters, J. Anthony Towns

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Pretrial Drug Testing: An Essential Step In Bail Reform, John A. Carver

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Consenting To Searches After Being Arrested: Pretrial Drug Testing , David R. Nielson

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Survey Of Current And Prior Pretrial Drug Testing Sites, Cynthia Durrant Jensen

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Getting The Most And Giving The Least From Virginia's "Mental Mitigation Expert" Statute, Helen L. Konrad

Capital Defense Journal

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Status Of Supreme Court Case Law Helpful To Capital Defendants, Steven K. Herndon, Ginger M. Jonas

Capital Defense Journal

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Drafting Petitions For The Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Supreme Court, Matthew B. Crum

Capital Defense Journal

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The Current State Of Dna Evidence, Christopher J. Lonsbury

Capital Defense Journal

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How To Look The Virginia Gift Horse In The Mouth: Federal Due Process And Virginia's Arbitrary Abrogation Of Capital Defendant's State-Created Rights, Otto W. Konrad

Capital Defense Journal

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Wielding The Big Stick: Deterrence And The Criminal Enforcement Of Environmental Laws, Bradley C. Howard

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Redefining The Harm Of Peremptory Challenges, Robert L. Harris Jr.

William & Mary Law Review

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The American Jury At Twenty-Five Years, Valerie P. Hans, Neil Vidmar

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The year 1991 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Harry Kalven, Jr. and Hans Zeisel's classic work, The American Jury. Arguably one of the most important books in the field of law and social science, this research monograph began the modrn field of jury studies and deeply influenced contemporary understanding of the jury as an institution.

In this essay we assess the book from the vantage point of a quarter- century. First, we provide a historical backdrop by reviewing the activities of the University of Chicago's Jury Project that led to the publication of The American Jury …

And God Created Woman. . . . But To Be A Criminal Defense Attorney?, Ellen S. Podgor, Leonard D. Pertnoy

Mercer Law Review

The focus of this Article is to discuss how different stereotypes affect the court presentation by a male and female defense attorney. The authors believe actual differences predicated upon a feminist methodology or approach are gender neutral. An awareness by an individual of what has been termed "feminist" controls actual methodology. For a more comprehensive discussion of feminist legal method or methodology, see generally Bartlett, Feminist Legal Methods, 103 Harv. L. Rev. 829 (1990); C. MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987).

Closing Argument: Tapping The Human Experience, Drew Findling

Mercer Law Review

To every criminal defense attorney there comes the inevitable daydream. That time when you imagine yourself in front of the jury passionately proclaiming your client's innocence. It is a fantasy dominated by your emotion and shared with an imaginary jury. You can sense the jury move with every word you utter. You expect the jury to applaud you at any moment. Finally, at the end of this reverie, you receive the ultimate ovation, a verdict of not guilty. It is your responsibility to convert that daydream into reality. Your closing argument should be that segment of the trial in which …

Building The Powerfully Persuasive Criminal Defense, Stephen C. Rench

Mercer Law Review

The persuasive case remains the foundation and sine qua non of trial advocacy. The importance of building the persuasive case first cannot be overestimated, for everything else flows 'from the thoroughly prepared and developed case. It furnishes the essential solid foundation from which the lawyer works in evaluating, negotiating, and when necessary, preparing the individual phases of the trial; The purpose of this Article is to describe the persuasive case and then to set forth a system and process for the building of that persuasive criminal defense case.

Literature, History, And Quotations: A New Perspective On An Old Technique, Peter A. Chang Jr., Elton B. Richey Jr.

Mercer Law Review

It was getting late. Outside, the sounds of the five o'clock traffic died down, and the grey twilight of a cold winter's day descended across empty streets and sidewalks. Across the square, the clock on the old church rang out the half-hour. Darkness was taking over inside as well. The grey twilight slipped through the windows and rolled like fog down the stairs and hallways of the aged building on Liberty Street, making the orange glow spilling out of the office at the end of the hall seem warmer still. Exasperated, the apprentice turned to the advocate.

Defending The Death Penalty Case: What Makes Death Different?, Andrea D. Lyon

Mercer Law Review

The United States Supreme Court has said time and again that "death is different." Lately, reading the Court's decisions makes the death penalty defense attorney wonder why, in those cases in which the imposition of the death penalty is the greatest, it is seemingly all right to have the most conviction-prone jury, a racially biased history of the death penalty's imposition, and fewer procedural safeguards.

Handling Client Perjury After Nix V. Whiteside: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's View, John Wesley Hall Jr.

Mercer Law Review

The law of client perjury remains a paradox,. notwithstanding the United States Supreme Court's vaunted, yet seemingly failed, effort to resolve some of the issues by dicta in Nix v. Whiteside. Where we have come from is still confusing, and even five years after Whiteside, where we are going remains a mystery.

Cross-Examination, David L. Lewis

Mercer Law Review

Cross-examination is a force of nature, an unswept intangible force of the universe harnessed in a small space for a very short time at best. It is akin to a newly created element seeking a place on the periodic table. Cross-examination is also the hunger of the wolf and the thirst for justice. It does not admit to being tied to a theory but only to being capable of absorbing life's breath. Good cross-examination begins with the very breath of life, complete with passion and righteousness. It is a terrible, swift sword.

Admissibility Of Video-Taped Testimony: What Is The Standard After Maryland V. Craig And How Will The Practicing Defense Attorney Be Affected?, Christopher A. Whitlock

Mercer Law Review

In Maryland v. Craig, the Supreme Court addressed "whether the [c]onfrontation [c]lause of the [s]ixth [a]mendment categorically prohibits a child witness in a child abuse case from testifying against a defendant at trial, outside the defendant's physical presence, by one-way closed circuit television." The majority, in an opinion written by Justice O'Connor, held that provided the trial court makes a case-specific finding of necessity, the confrontation clause does not prohibit a state from using a one-way closed-circuit. television procedure for receiving testimony by a child witness in a child sexual abuse case.

Telling Stories: The Spoken Narrative Tradition In Criminal Defense Discourse, Laura Gardner Webster

Mercer Law Review

Near the end of the Criminal Procedure course that I teach, I assigned the case of Cuyler v. Sullivan, a treacherously complex decision grounded in the sixth amendment right to conflict-free counsel in criminal trials. While the case demonstrates the intricacies of federal habeas corpus review of state criminal convictions, I do not find it absorbing for that reason. I assign it because the respondent, John Sullivan, having successfully urged his claim before the United States Supreme Court, died in the jail in which he had spent most of the previous twenty years of his life.

Opening Statements, Robert B. Hirschhorn

Mercer Law Review

As we begin the last decade of the twentieth century, we are experiencing a revolution in the courtroom. The techniques of the old guard must give way to new and innovative means of motivating our captive audience called the jury. I will not engage in a legal treatise of the opening statement. Few cases have ever been reversed on error committed during the opening statement. Instead, I intend to address the humanistic factors that make the difference between a losing and a winning opening statement. Some cases have been lost because of an ineffective opening, but a disproportionate number of …

The Defendant As A Witness, Alex Zipperer

Mercer Law Review

Few tactical decisions facing the criminal defense lawyer are as problematic as the decision whether to present evidence on behalf of the defense, and particularly whether to have the defendant testify. Trial lawyering cannot be practiced effectively by simply "going by the book." There are no definitive studies, nor can there be, to tell us what the general rule should be in deciding whether the defendant should testify, or otherwise present evidence in any given case. The nature of the criminal trial does not lend itself to a neat set of rules one pulls out of the hip pocket and …

Every Mother's Son: Humanizing The Defendant, Lisbeth Potts

Mercer Law Review

When the jury panel walks into the courtroom, the first thing they do with "bull's eye" accuracy is zero in on your client. "He must be guilty. Why else would I have to be here? If he wasn't guilty, he wouldn't be here." Those are the thoughts flashing through most of their minds., This is typically the situation, whether the defendant has been charged with a minor offense or a heinous crime.

Political Trials, Ephraim Margolin

Mercer Law Review

In Political Criminal Trials, John Sink distinguished between cases in which the defendant admits the deeds, but invokes political reasons as a justification, and cases in which the prosecution proceeds against suspects for political reasons of its own. Each category of case is tried differently. Each compels a different approach to the handling of the media.

There Is No Such Thing As A Free Question: Examining The Hidden Costs Of Trial Advocacy, Michelle Schieber

Mercer Law Review

Readers of Robert H. Klonoff and Paul L. Colby's new book on trial tactics might well be surprised by the authors' frequent references to fictional works such as Presumed Innocent and Perry Mason. A reader might even go so far as to conclude that the text which he has undertaken to peruse is somewhat radical. But if the reader also assumes that the authors' quirky approach has resulted in a book without merit, then he would be very wrong indeed.