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Constitutional Constraints On The Admissibility Of Grand Jury Testimony: The Unavailable Witness, Confrontation, And Due Process, Barbara L. Strack Oct 1982

Constitutional Constraints On The Admissibility Of Grand Jury Testimony: The Unavailable Witness, Confrontation, And Due Process, Barbara L. Strack

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Defendants, however, have raised serious constitutional objections to the introduction of grand jury testimony when the witness is unavailable to testify at trial. These claims have focused on the confrontation clause of the sixth amendment and the due process clauses of the fifth and fourteenth amendments. Defendants have contended that the introduction of testimony from a grand jury proceeding which cannot be subjected to cross-examination fatally compromises the defendant's right to a fair trial. Lower courts are split over admitting grand jury testimony in these circumstances, and the Supreme Court has yet to rule on the issue. As a result, …


Martinez V. Bynum, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1982

Martinez V. Bynum, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Challenging State Acts Of Authorization Under The Fourteenth Amendment: Suggested Answers To An Uncertain Quest, G. Sidney Buchanan Mar 1982

Challenging State Acts Of Authorization Under The Fourteenth Amendment: Suggested Answers To An Uncertain Quest, G. Sidney Buchanan

Washington Law Review

The holdings in Flagg Brothers and Jackson suggest the central question addressed in this article: To what extent are state acts of authorization immunized from judicial review on the merits? Using the fact situations in Flagg Brothers and Jackson as paradigms, the two types of challenges that can be made in a typical fact situation involving the state action issue are first described. These two models are then discussed in relation to Flagg Brothers, Jackson, and other Supreme Court decisions that implicate the state action issue. With that discussion as a predicate, this article next considers the procedural problems that …


Mandatory Retirement And The Constitution: Challenging The Factual Basis Underlying Legislative Classifications, Vernon Townes Grizzard Jan 1982

Mandatory Retirement And The Constitution: Challenging The Factual Basis Underlying Legislative Classifications, Vernon Townes Grizzard

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Liberty Vs. Equality: Congressional Enforcement Power Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Kingsley R. Browne Jan 1982

Liberty Vs. Equality: Congressional Enforcement Power Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Kingsley R. Browne

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.


Involuntary Commitment: The Move Toward Dangerousness, 15 J. Marshall L. Rev. 83 (1982), Robert Weissbourd Jan 1982

Involuntary Commitment: The Move Toward Dangerousness, 15 J. Marshall L. Rev. 83 (1982), Robert Weissbourd

UIC Law Review

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Strict Construction And Judicial Review Of Racial Discrimination Under The Equal Protection Clause: Meeting Raoul Berger On Interpretivist Grounds, Paul R. Dimond Jan 1982

Strict Construction And Judicial Review Of Racial Discrimination Under The Equal Protection Clause: Meeting Raoul Berger On Interpretivist Grounds, Paul R. Dimond

Michigan Law Review

In the face of this common understanding of the vagueness of much of the constitutional text, Berger bears the burden of proving that the equal protection clause was intended to enumerate specific, narrow protections against racial discrimination. This Article examines several contemporary sources to determine whether he has accomplished that task. It proceeds in six parts. Part I analyzes the text of the fourteenth amendment and contemporaneous congressional views on judicial review. Contrary to Berger's construction, the equal protection clause is not limited by its terms to the privileges or immunities clause or to the specific rights enumerated in the …


Selective Incorporation Revisited, Jerold H. Israel Jan 1982

Selective Incorporation Revisited, Jerold H. Israel

Articles

In June 1960 Justice Brennan's separate opinion in Ohio ex re. Eaton v. Price' set forth what came to be the doctrinal foundation of the Warren Court's criminal procedure revolution. Justice Brennan advocated adoption of what is now commonly described as the "selective incorporation" theory of the fourteenth amendment. That theory, simply put, holds that the fourteenth amendment's due process clause fully incorporates all of those guarantees of the Bill of Rights deemed to be fundamental and thereby makes those guarantees applicable to the states. During the decade that followed Ohio ex re. Eaton v. Price, the Court found incorporated …


Nineteenth Century Interpretations Of The Federal Contract Clause: The Transformation From Vested To Substantive Rights Against The State , James L. Kainen Jan 1982

Nineteenth Century Interpretations Of The Federal Contract Clause: The Transformation From Vested To Substantive Rights Against The State , James L. Kainen

Faculty Scholarship

During the early nineteenth century, the contract clause served as the fundamental source of federally protected rights against the state. Yet the Supreme Court gradually eased many of the restrictions on state power enforced in the contract clause cases while developing the doctrine of substantive due process after the Civil War. By the end of the nineteenth century, the due process clause had usurped the place of the contract clause as the centerpiece in litigation about individual rights. Most analyses of the history of federally protected rights against the state have emphasized the rise of substantive due process to the …