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Every Move You Make: How Stories Shape The Law Of Stalking, Anna-Rose Mathieson
Every Move You Make: How Stories Shape The Law Of Stalking, Anna-Rose Mathieson
Michigan Law Review
Bunny-boiler is now an official part of the English language. This word - taken from the scene in Fatal Attraction where Glenn Close's character boils the pet rabbit of the man she has been stalking - was unknown fifteen years ago. Although still not in common parlance, "bunny-boiler" has made its way far enough into our culture that a brief explanation of its source can conjure up an image of the obsessive, vindictive stalker it describes. Along with the entrance of this word into our language has come an explosive growth in laws punishing stalkers. Before 1990, no state in …
Witnesses-Prior Conviction Of Crime To Impeach-Circumstances Of Sentencing Not Admissible, J. D. Mcleod S.Ed.
Witnesses-Prior Conviction Of Crime To Impeach-Circumstances Of Sentencing Not Admissible, J. D. Mcleod S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
ln an action to recover for personal injuries sustained in 1945, at which time he was a prisoner of the State of Virginia, plaintiff testified in his own behalf at the jury trial. On cross-examination, he admitted that he had been convicted of assault in 1943, that sentence had been suspended on condition that he enter the service, and that he had been sentenced to jail when he failed to enter the service. In his argument, defendant's attorney declared that the action had its inception in 1943, and emphasized that plaintiff had failed to enter the service when the sentence …
Constitutional Law-Protection Of Civil Liberties-Federal Criminal Prosecution Of State Police Officers-Constitutionality And Construction Of Section 20 Of Criminal Code, George Brody
Michigan Law Review
In United States v. Classic the Civil Liberties Unit of the Department of Justice resurrected the long dormant section 20 of the United States criminal code to prosecute successfully election officials in Louisiana for altering and falsely counting ballots cast in a Louisiana primary for representatives to Congress. Although the acts of the defendants were also in violation of state law the court asserted that "misuse of power possessed by virtue of state law and made possible only because the wrongdoer is clothed with authority of state law, is action taken under color of state law" and therefore within the …
Criminal Law And Procedure - Extradition Of A Juvenile Delinquent, Felicia I. Hmiel
Criminal Law And Procedure - Extradition Of A Juvenile Delinquent, Felicia I. Hmiel
Michigan Law Review
The state of Georgia, by an acting justice of peace of a county, charged a thirteen-year-old boy with the crime of assault with intent to murder. Under the Georgia Criminal Code the offense was punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two to ten years. The boy was found in the state of New York, whereupon the governor of Georgia sent a requisition for extradition to the governor of New York. The boy defendant brought a habeas corpus proceeding in a New York court to obtain release from custody under the extradition warrant. Held, the defendant …
Torts - Negligence - Duty Of Owner Of Place Of Public Amusement To Protect Against Criminal Acts, Michigan Law Review
Torts - Negligence - Duty Of Owner Of Place Of Public Amusement To Protect Against Criminal Acts, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff as patron of defendant's theater, while in the ladies' room located on one of the top floors of the theater, was assaulted and robbed. The testimony for the plaintiff showed an absence of attendants except on the main floor. At the end of the plaintiff's case the complaint was dismissed. Held, non-suit was erroneous; there was evidence from which the jury could infer that the defendant should reasonably have anticipated the happening of the incident and had failed to take reasonable precautions to guard against it. Hart v. Hercules Theatre Corp., (S. Ct. 1939) 13 N. Y. …
Intentional Infliction Of Mental Suffering: A New Tort, William L. Prosser
Intentional Infliction Of Mental Suffering: A New Tort, William L. Prosser
Michigan Law Review
It is time to recognize that the courts have created a new tort. It appears, in one disguise or another, in more than a hundred decisions, the greater number of them within the last two decades. Of course there is no necessity whatever that there should be separate torts, or that a tort must have a name; but if a name must be found for this one, we might do worse than to borrow a word from the vernacular of Kentucky and points south, and call it "orneriness." It is something very like assault. It consists of the intentional, outrageous …
Jury - False Or Misleading Answers On Voir Dire As Grounds For A New Trial, James H. Kilbourne
Jury - False Or Misleading Answers On Voir Dire As Grounds For A New Trial, James H. Kilbourne
Michigan Law Review
Defendant, a striking employee, was convicted of breach of the peace arising out of an assault on non-striking employees. Immediately preceding his trial the jurors had been interrogated on voir dire in a similar case. Counsel for defendant stated he would rely in part on that examination. In it the jurors had been asked whether they had either friends or relatives working at the strike-bound plant. Juror A failed to disclose that his brother was a non-striking employee, though he admitted his niece was. Juror B failed to disclose that a friend who had previously lived with him for a …
Witnesses - Effect Of Mental Deficiency On Competency And Credibility, Erwin B. Ellmann
Witnesses - Effect Of Mental Deficiency On Competency And Credibility, Erwin B. Ellmann
Michigan Law Review
Inquiry into the admissibility of evidence showing mental deficiency in a witness is suggested by State v. Teager, a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Iowa. Defendant, charged with assault with intent to commit rape, offered to prove by a school teacher that the complaining witness, a child twelve years old, was "at least two years behind in her school work . . . subnormal mentally . . . and ought to be in an institution . . . . " No objection had been made to the competency of such witness. It was held that the evidence …
Public Officers-Sheriff's Removal From Office- Use Of Third Degree
Public Officers-Sheriff's Removal From Office- Use Of Third Degree
Michigan Law Review
In a quo warranto proceeding instituted under a Kansas statute providing that an officer of this state "who shall willfully misconduct himself in office, or who shall willfully neglect to perform any duty enjoined upon such officer by any of the laws of the state . . . shall forfeit his office and shall be ousted from such office," it was held, that a sheriff who assaulted and used other third degree practices on a prisoner to force a confession from him had misconducted himself in office and should be removed. State ex rel. Boynton v. Jackson, (Kan. …
Master And Servant - "Respondeat Superior" - Responsibility Of Master For The Malicious Act Of Servant
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff and defendant were competitors in the laundry business. While plaintiff was collecting laundry a dispute arose between him and defendant's driver over the right to certain laundry of which plaintiff had taken possession. The driver undertook to obtain it from plaintiff by force and assaulted him. Suit was brought against the laundry company as principal. Held, though arising out of the business, the assault was outside the scope of employment so defendant was not liable. Morin v. Wet Wash Laundry Company (N. H. 1931) 156 Atl. 499.
Crimes-Procedure-Constitutionality Of The Short Form Of The Indictment
Crimes-Procedure-Constitutionality Of The Short Form Of The Indictment
Michigan Law Review
The respondents were tried and found guilty of murder. Held, that the constitutional provision that "the accused shall be fully informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him" requires an indictment returned by the grand jury to contain allegations as to the time and place of the assault and the time and place of death of the decedent where the crime charged is murder. State v. Rector (S. C . 1930) 155 S.E. 385.
Criminal Law-Prosecution For Poisoning Not Resulting In Fatality
Criminal Law-Prosecution For Poisoning Not Resulting In Fatality
Michigan Law Review
In considering the question of criminal liability for poisoning not resulting in death, the problem may be discussed to best advantage by making the following four-fold classification: (1) administering with intent to kill, (2) attempt to administer with intent to kill, (3) administering with intent to injure, and (4) attempt to administer with intent to injure.