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Prejudicial In11uence On Jury Of Newspaper Published During Trial-People V. Purvis, Michigan Law Review
Prejudicial In11uence On Jury Of Newspaper Published During Trial-People V. Purvis, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Defendant had been paroled after serving four years of a sentence for second degree murder. While on parole, he was tried for another homicide and convicted of murder in the first degree. In separate penalty trials, juries had twice assessed the death sentence, which, on both occasions, had been set aside by the reviewing court. During the third trial, the Sunday newspaper in the local county published a front-page article attacking the leniency of the parole system, attributing the area's high crime rate partly to the recidivist tendencies of parolees, and quoting the county sheriff's opinion that defendant should be …
The Senile Testator: Medicolegal Aspects Of Competency, Robert Gene Smith, Laurence M. Hager
The Senile Testator: Medicolegal Aspects Of Competency, Robert Gene Smith, Laurence M. Hager
Cleveland State Law Review
The law has failed to recognize recent advances in geriatric psychiatry. Moreover, where medical language has been used, the terminology is either outdated or misapplied. What follows is an attempt to describe the nature and policy of the legal standard for testamentary competency, to set forth the current medical approach to senility and mental disease, and to suggest practical ways for the lawyer to use geriatric psychiatry in behalf of the senile testator.
The New Outlaw: A Psychological Footnote To The Criminal Law, John Batt
The New Outlaw: A Psychological Footnote To The Criminal Law, John Batt
Kentucky Law Journal
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Science, Common Sense, And Criminal Law Reform, Jerome Hall
Science, Common Sense, And Criminal Law Reform, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Professor Hall advocates a reappraisal of the current trend in criminal law of substituting expert psychiatric testimony for common-sense determinations of insanity based on the long experience of the criminal-law tradition. Holding that the average layman is as competent to recognize extreme mental illness as the psychiatric expert, the author discusses the doctrine of the "irresistible impulse" and submits that the current departures from the M'Naghten rule tend to "substitute the ideology of a particular group of psychiatrists for the principle of moral responsibility." Professor Hall suggests that realistic reform cannot be achieved without considering the "moral life and its …