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Real Property: 1992 Survey Of Florida Law, Ronald B. Brown
Real Property: 1992 Survey Of Florida Law, Ronald B. Brown
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Minor Changes: Emancipating Children In Modern Times, Carol Sanger, Eleanor Willemsen
Minor Changes: Emancipating Children In Modern Times, Carol Sanger, Eleanor Willemsen
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Parents and their teenage children don't always get along. At some time during adolescent development, parents may turn into embarrassments and teenagers into domestic terrorists. For most families this is a phase. Adolescence is endured, the child accomplishes some degree of separation from parents, and the transition to adulthood advances.
In some families, however, the period is more like a siege than a phase. Conflict may last longer and be more strifeful, more intense. If the family is incapable or unwilling to resolve the tensions, an intractability may set in. In these cases, domestic tranquility seems attainable only when the …
A Reply: Imperfect Bargains, Imperfect Trials, And Innocent Defendants, Robert E. Scott
A Reply: Imperfect Bargains, Imperfect Trials, And Innocent Defendants, Robert E. Scott
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To understand what is and is not wrong with plea bargaining, one must understand the relationship of bargains to trials. Unsurprisingly, we disagree with much of what Judge Frank Easterbrook and Professor Stephen Schulhofer say about that relationship. Most of those disagreements need not be rehearsed here; readers attentive enough to wade through their essays and ours will pick up the key points readily enough. But there is one point where the dispute is at once sharp and hidden. It has to do with the fact that both trials and bargains are flawed.
That fact might seem obvious, but the …