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Full-Text Articles in Law
Deceit And The Classification Of Crimes: Federal Rule Of Evidence 609 (A)(2) And The Origins Of Crimen Falsi, Stuart P. Green
Deceit And The Classification Of Crimes: Federal Rule Of Evidence 609 (A)(2) And The Origins Of Crimen Falsi, Stuart P. Green
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
No abstract provided.
An Actuarial Risk Assessment Of Violence Posed By Capital Murder Defendants, Jonathan R. Sorensen, Rocky L. Pilgrim
An Actuarial Risk Assessment Of Violence Posed By Capital Murder Defendants, Jonathan R. Sorensen, Rocky L. Pilgrim
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
No abstract provided.
Autumn Of The Patriarch: The Pinochet Extradition Debacle And Beyond--Human Rights Clauses Compared To Traditional Derivative Protections Such As Double Criminality, Christopher L. Blakesley
Autumn Of The Patriarch: The Pinochet Extradition Debacle And Beyond--Human Rights Clauses Compared To Traditional Derivative Protections Such As Double Criminality, Christopher L. Blakesley
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
No abstract provided.
Gang Loitering And Race, Lawrence Rosenthal
Gang Loitering And Race, Lawrence Rosenthal
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
No abstract provided.
On Equality, Bias Crimes, And Just Deserts, Kenneth W. Simons
On Equality, Bias Crimes, And Just Deserts, Kenneth W. Simons
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
No abstract provided.
Train Wrecks And Freeway Crashes: An Argument For Fairness And Against Self Representation In The Criminal Justice System, Martin Sabelli, Stacey Leyton
Train Wrecks And Freeway Crashes: An Argument For Fairness And Against Self Representation In The Criminal Justice System, Martin Sabelli, Stacey Leyton
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
No abstract provided.
Death Is The Whole Ball Game, Jeffrey A. Fagan, James S. Liebman, Valerie West
Death Is The Whole Ball Game, Jeffrey A. Fagan, James S. Liebman, Valerie West
Faculty Scholarship
In Capital Appeals Revisited and The Meaning of Capital Appeals, Barry Latzer and James N.G. Cauthen argue that a study of capital appeals should focus only on overturned findings of guilt, and complain that in A Broken System we examine all overturned capital verdicts. But the question they want studied cannot provide an accurate evaluation of a system of capital punishment. By proposing to count only "conviction" error and not "sentence" error, Latzer and Cauthen ignore that if a death sentence is overturned, the case is no longer capital and the system of capital punishment has failed to achieve its …
Death Matters – A Reply To Latzer And Cauthen, James S. Liebman, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Valerie West
Death Matters – A Reply To Latzer And Cauthen, James S. Liebman, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Valerie West
Faculty Scholarship
The legal treatment of capital punishment in the United States "rests squarely on the predicate that the penalty of death is qualitatively different from a sentence of imprisonment, however long. Death, in its finality, differs more from life imprisonment than a 100-year prison term differs from one of only a year or two. This predicate is among "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society" and determine whether a punishment is "cruel and unusual" in violation of the Constitution. Because "'[f]rom the point of view of the defendant, [death] is different in both its severity …
Apres Apprendi, Nancy J. King, Susan R. Klein
Apres Apprendi, Nancy J. King, Susan R. Klein
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The Court in Apprendi v. New Jersey, ___ U.S. ___ (2000), held as a matter of due process that any fact, other than a prior conviction, that increases the penalty for an offense beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury and proven beyond a reasonable doubt. In a longer forthcoming article, we attempt to answer some of the profound questions raised by the case concerning constitutional oversight of legislative authority to define what is a "crime," questions that will ripen over the years as legislatures look for ways around the rule and litigants test these legislative …