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The Role Of A Trial Jury In Determining The Voluntariness Of A Confession, Michigan Law Review
The Role Of A Trial Jury In Determining The Voluntariness Of A Confession, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The Supreme Court of the United States has vigorously implemented the principle that criminal prosecution is an investigative, not an inquisitorial, process. Evidence of guilt must be obtained by methods free from physical or psychological coercion. Protections in the Bill of Rights against illegal search and seizure, self-incrimination, and trial without counsel have been extended to the states through the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment. Safeguards against the admissibility of coerced confessions into evidence have also been instituted. Because a confession practically determines the ultimate question of guilt, the critical standards for· admissibility are frequently challenged on appeal. …
The Powers Of The Michigan Civil Rights Commission, Roger C. Cramton
The Powers Of The Michigan Civil Rights Commission, Roger C. Cramton
Michigan Law Review
The thesis of this article is that the Attorney General has misread the language and actions of the constitution-makers. The Michigan Civil Rights Commission is an important and powerful agency of government which has substantial tasks to perform. But it does not possess the exclusive powers envisioned by the Attorney General. Other governmental units-the legislature, the executive, the courts, and the local governments-may continue to play a creative and positive role in fashioning a legal order that accords to every human being in society a reasonable opportunity to realize his potentialities.
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 …
Civil Procedure-Judgements-Mutuauty As Requirement For Assertion Of Collateral Estoppel Against Claimant Who Was Claimee In Prior Action, William E. Wickens
Civil Procedure-Judgements-Mutuauty As Requirement For Assertion Of Collateral Estoppel Against Claimant Who Was Claimee In Prior Action, William E. Wickens
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff corporations, the sole shareholder of which was their president, sued defendant insurers to recover for the alleged theft of the corporations' furs. In an earlier criminal action, the president (conceded by the corporations to be their mere alter ego for purposes of res judicata) had been convicted of attempted grand theft, conspiracy to commit grand theft, and the filing of fraudulent insurance claims for loss of the same furs; it was there determined that the president had staged the theft of the furs. In plaintiffs' civil action, the superior court rejected defendants' plea of collateral estoppel as to the …