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The Misadventures Of State Postconviction Remedies, Larry Yackle
The Misadventures Of State Postconviction Remedies, Larry Yackle
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In a colloquium concentrating on the lower federal courts' jurisdiction to determine federal claims, it falls to me to treat state court opportunities to adjudicate the same issues in advance of, as an aid to, or in place of federal litigation. To do that, I will have to recount some conventional wisdom regarding the development of federal habeas corpus and state postconviction remedies in tandem during the last half century. In due course, I hope to solicit support for an unconventional conclusion to be drawn from that experience.
Rethinking Harmless Constitutional Error, A. Kimberley Dayton
Rethinking Harmless Constitutional Error, A. Kimberley Dayton
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This article examines the increasing role of the Chapman Rule and its effect on the harmless error doctrine and outlines a coherent doctrine of constitutional error responsive to the purposes of the various constitutional protections afforded criminal defendants. Part I evaluates the Court's existing harmless error jurisprudence. Part II proposes a harmless error doctrine that, unlike the Court's approach, responds to constitutional values unrelated to truth determination. The last two parts of the Article address two problems precipitated by the use of outcome-oriented rules to define and remedy constitutional error. Part III discusses when such a rule should be used …