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Looking For Policy In All The Wrong Places: A Comment On The Strategies Of "The Race And Gender Crowd" Toward Evidence Law, David L. Faigman
Looking For Policy In All The Wrong Places: A Comment On The Strategies Of "The Race And Gender Crowd" Toward Evidence Law, David L. Faigman
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Would A Market-Based Test Clarify Entrapment?, Roger C. Park
Would A Market-Based Test Clarify Entrapment?, Roger C. Park
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Regulating The Market For Snitches , Ian Weinstein
Regulating The Market For Snitches , Ian Weinstein
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These are boom times for the sellers and buyers of cooperation in the federal criminal justice system. While prosecutors have always welcomed the assistance of snitches, tougher federal sentencing laws have led to a significant increase in cooperation as more defendants try to provide "substantial assistance in the investigation or prosecution of another person," to have some chance of receiving a significant sentence reduction. In 1996 one of every five defendants sentenced in the federal courts won mitigation by providing substantial assistance. Many more defendants tried but failed to close the deal. The overheated cooperation market is creating serious problems …
Taking Notes: Subpoenas And Just Compensation, Gary S. Lawson
Taking Notes: Subpoenas And Just Compensation, Gary S. Lawson
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Few cases from the October 1997 Supreme Court term received as much public attention as Swidler & Berlin v United States, which held that the attorney-client privilege survives the death of the client in federal criminal proceedings. If one focuses solely on the issue actually decided in the case, that degree of attention is surprising. The issue had not generated a split among the federal circuits, and there were relatively few decisions-federal or state-squarely on point. The Court's holding was thus unlikely to have a major impact on American law; the paucity of prior case law demonstrates that the question …