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Anthrax Hoaxes, Ira P. Robbins
The Mentally Ill Offender: A Brighter Tomorrow Through The Eyes Of The Mentally Ill Offender Treatment And Crime Reduction Act Of 2004, Ralph M. Rivera
The Mentally Ill Offender: A Brighter Tomorrow Through The Eyes Of The Mentally Ill Offender Treatment And Crime Reduction Act Of 2004, Ralph M. Rivera
Journal of Law and Health
Beginning in the early 1950s and '60s, states began to close their public mental health hospitals. This process was known as "deinstitutionalization." In recent years, following the massive wave of deinstitutionalization, a substantial number of institutionalized persons with mental disabilities were relocated from civil mental hospitals into jails and prisons, Despite this shift in population, correctional facilities remain ill-equipped to handle and deal with offenders with mental disabilities. One study found that approximately 6.5-10% of inmates suffered from a serious mental illness, while another 15-40% suffered from a moderate mental illness. Another study done by the Bureau of Justice Statistics …
What Were They Thinking?: The Mental States Of The Aider And Abettor And The Causer Under Federal Law, Baruch Weiss
What Were They Thinking?: The Mental States Of The Aider And Abettor And The Causer Under Federal Law, Baruch Weiss
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Defining Willful Remuneration: How Bryan V. United States Affects The Scienter Requirement Of The Medicare/Medicaid Anti-Kickback Statute, Robb Degraw
Journal of Law and Health
At the forefront of the debate over the anti-kickback statute, and the topic of this Note, is the mens rea, or mental state, that is required for a violation of the law. According to the statute, an individual must "knowingly and willfully" solicit or receive, or offer to pay, remuneration in order to induce business reimbursed under any federal health care program. The interpretation of these terms by the federal courts has varied wildly, as have the underlying Supreme Court cases cited as precedent for such interpretations. However, in June of 1998, the Supreme Court defined the meaning of "willfully" …
The Confusion Of Causes And Reasons In Forensic Psychology: Deconstructing Mens Rea And Other Mental Events, Joel R. Cornwell
The Confusion Of Causes And Reasons In Forensic Psychology: Deconstructing Mens Rea And Other Mental Events, Joel R. Cornwell
University of Richmond Law Review
The public perception that criminal conduct is increasingly excused on psychological grounds, notwithstanding a markedly small statistical success rate of diminished capacity defenses, evinces misplaced frustration over a broader cultural reluctance or inability to assign moral blame. Psychology is seen as feeding a kind of determinism that rationalizes evil behavior and precludes retributive punishment as a matter of scientific principle. This perception is accurate to the degree that it reveals our legal system's fundamental confusion of purposes in judging and explaining criminal behavior. This confusion is engendered by the indeterminacy of language, which entangles the verificationist mode and purpose of …
Where We Have Been, And Where We Might Be Going: Some Cautionary Reflections On Rape Law Reform, The Sixty-Eighth Cleveland-Marshall Fund Lecture , Joshua Dressler
Where We Have Been, And Where We Might Be Going: Some Cautionary Reflections On Rape Law Reform, The Sixty-Eighth Cleveland-Marshall Fund Lecture , Joshua Dressler
Cleveland State Law Review
We should always be looking to see where we are, how we got there, and where we appear to be going. My purpose in this article has been to ask those questions in the context of rape law. In evaluating rape reform, I have tried to be fair-minded and balanced in my observations. I have suggested areas in which the law should go further to protect against sexual misconduct, but I have also expressed my belief that rape law reform threatens to move in undesirable directions. In particular, I have argued that there is a risk that courts will follow …
The Appropriate Role Of Plantiff Misuse In Products Liability Causes Of Action, Peter Zablotsky
The Appropriate Role Of Plantiff Misuse In Products Liability Causes Of Action, Peter Zablotsky
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Quiet Year: The Supreme Court's Criminal Law Decisions During The 1991 Term, William E. Hellerstein
A Quiet Year: The Supreme Court's Criminal Law Decisions During The 1991 Term, William E. Hellerstein
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
A New Twist In The War On Drugs: The Constitutional Right Of A Mentally Ill Criminal Defendant To Refuse Antipsychotic Medication That Would Make Him Competent To Stand Trial, Brian Domb
Journal of Law and Health
The purpose of this Note is to analyze what right, if any exists for a mentally ill criminal defendant to refuse the administration of antipsychotic drugs to gain competence to stand trial. Focusing mainly on the trial context of the right to refuse is not to suggest that there is not overlap between the right of a criminal defendant to refuse and the right of a civilly committed patient to refuse. Indeed, it is often unclear why an individual is brought to the emergency room of a general hospital and eventually committed, rather than being arrested and booked and later …
Postpartum Psychosis As A Defense To Infant Murder, Barbara E. Rosenberg
Postpartum Psychosis As A Defense To Infant Murder, Barbara E. Rosenberg
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Criminal Law—Child Abuse Resulting In Death—Arkansas Amends Its First Degree Murder Statute, Paul H. Taylor
Criminal Law—Child Abuse Resulting In Death—Arkansas Amends Its First Degree Murder Statute, Paul H. Taylor
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Specific And General Nonsense?, Tim Quigley
Specific And General Nonsense?, Tim Quigley
Dalhousie Law Journal
In a previous article, I dealt with the argument that the present law on the intoxication defence was well-founded on legal authority and concluded that it was not. I then suggested that those wishing to uphold the present law as represented by Leary v. The Queen and D.PP v. Majewski would have to find support in other arguments. The purpose of this article is therefore to examine those arguments to see whether they provide sufficient ground for the current state of the law in Canada and England. In particular, the specific-general intent dichotomy will be examined in this light.
Twisting The Tourniquet Around The Pulse Of Conventional Legal Wisdom: Jurisprudence And Law Reform In The Work Of Robert A. Samek, Richard F. Devlin
Twisting The Tourniquet Around The Pulse Of Conventional Legal Wisdom: Jurisprudence And Law Reform In The Work Of Robert A. Samek, Richard F. Devlin
Dalhousie Law Journal
The name Robert Samek first came to my attention in the summer of 1985 as part of a research project carried out under the auspices of the Law Reform Commission of Canada. I was struck by what at the time seemed to be a complete contrast in two of his publications; his book, The Legal Point of View and an article, "A Case for Social Law Reform". Although only a few years apart, it seemed impossible that the two works could have come from the pen of the same author: the former was traditional, opaque, dull, pedantic and repetitive; the …
Felony Murder And The Misdemeanor Of Attempted Escape: A Legislative Error In Search Of Correction, Peter J. Mcquillan
Felony Murder And The Misdemeanor Of Attempted Escape: A Legislative Error In Search Of Correction, Peter J. Mcquillan
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article argues that a legislative reconsideration of the New York felony murder doctrine is timely and essential. The author traces the origins of New York's felony murder statute and recent efforts to limit its scope. The author argues that the felony murder doctrine contravenes the modern philosophy of adjudication based on subjective factors such as mens rea, eroding the link between criminal liability and moral culpability.
Should The Insanity Defense Be Abolished - An Introduction To The Debate, Norval Morris, Richard Bonnie, Joel J. Finer
Should The Insanity Defense Be Abolished - An Introduction To The Debate, Norval Morris, Richard Bonnie, Joel J. Finer
Journal of Law and Health
As the plans for the debate began to unfold I was concerned about the possibility that the subject matter might already be jaded, or in any event no longer would be a "hot topic" for our potential audience. Being quite familiar with the writings of our Advocates and therefore particularly susceptible to the reader-listener rehash syndrome, I was nonetheless hopeful that what had the potential for being old-hat would instead be new and interesting to those members of the audience not professionally committed to intimate familiarity with the subject matter. While I had expected that these issues, aired in the …
Depraved Mind Murder And Intoxication: Some Sobering Thoughts On People V. Register
Depraved Mind Murder And Intoxication: Some Sobering Thoughts On People V. Register
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Multiple Objective Conspiracies: The Effect Of Stromberg V. California, Clare Sherwood
Multiple Objective Conspiracies: The Effect Of Stromberg V. California, Clare Sherwood
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Book Review: H. Fingarette & A. Fingarette Hasse, Mental Disabilities And Criminal Responsibilities, John Q. La Fond
Book Review: H. Fingarette & A. Fingarette Hasse, Mental Disabilities And Criminal Responsibilities, John Q. La Fond
Seattle University Law Review
Whether mental illness and related impairments in the human psyche should affect an individual's criminal responsibilityfor law-breaking behavior has always provoked intense andwide-ranging debate. This debate clearly reflects society's lack of consensus concerning the appropriateness and scope of considering mental impairment in assessing individual criminal responsiblility. Thus, it is not unexpected that recently proposals to abolish the insanity defense have been seriously suggested or that noted scholars have urged society to place the disposition of mentally ill offenders in the exclusive hands of experts. That this heated discussion continues unabated should come as no surprise, since legal doctrines which excuse …
Diminished Capacity-Recent Decisions And An Analytical Approach, Robert P. Bryant, Corbin B. Hume
Diminished Capacity-Recent Decisions And An Analytical Approach, Robert P. Bryant, Corbin B. Hume
Vanderbilt Law Review
The concept of diminished capacity allows a defendant in a criminal case to prove, usually by presenting psychiatrists who testify that he suffered from an abnormal mental condition, that he was unable to entertain the particular mens rea required for conviction.' Although courts historically have been reluctant to admit such testimony, in recent years a growing number of jurisdictions have recognized the concept of diminished capacity. Recent decisions in Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and North Carolina, as well as recently adopted statutes in ten other jurisdictions,illustrate the evidentiary, social, and constitutional issues raised by the concept of diminished capacity. …
Corporate Conspiracy: Problems Of Mens Rea And The Parties To The Agreement, M. R. Goode
Corporate Conspiracy: Problems Of Mens Rea And The Parties To The Agreement, M. R. Goode
Dalhousie Law Journal
The essence of conspiracy is the agreement or plot formed between two or more parties. Thus, in R. v. Aspinall, for example, Brett J. A. said: ". . . . the crime of conspiracy is completely committed, if it is committed at all, the moment two or more have agreed that they will do, at once and at some future time, certain things." It follows that criminal conspiracy may be loosely defined as a criminal contract: an agreement between two or more "persons". Emphasis will be placed upon the elements of that required agreement in the discussion that follows. First, …
Reasonable Mistake Of Age: A Needed Defense To Statutory Rape, Larry W. Myers
Reasonable Mistake Of Age: A Needed Defense To Statutory Rape, Larry W. Myers
Michigan Law Review
Hernandez represents the first positive judicial step toward changing the irrational rules which currently control the crime of statutory rape, and its import should furnish a touchstone for the future development of the law of all sex crimes. In the brief period since the Hernandez decision was handed down it has been reaffirmed by its authors, and the legislatures in two other states have enacted statutes which embrace its sound reasoning. However, at least one state has evidenced an intent to follow the traditional judicial approach of imposing strict liability, notwithstanding the defendant's reasonable mistake with respect to the true …
Mens Rea In Bigamy In Maryland: An Obituary?, T. B. Hogan
Mens Rea In Bigamy In Maryland: An Obituary?, T. B. Hogan
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Mens Rea And The Law Without It: Rationale And The West Virginia Rule, Gerhard O. W. Mueller
Mens Rea And The Law Without It: Rationale And The West Virginia Rule, Gerhard O. W. Mueller
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Criminal Law - ''Temporary Insanity" -Arguments And Proposals For Its Elimination As A Defense To Criminal Prosecution, Lewis R. Williams, Jr. S. Ed.
Criminal Law - ''Temporary Insanity" -Arguments And Proposals For Its Elimination As A Defense To Criminal Prosecution, Lewis R. Williams, Jr. S. Ed.
Michigan Law Review
ln view of the apparently increasing number of cases which have come before the courts in recent years in which the defense of "temporary insanity" has been made, an investigation into the status of that defense in the criminal law of today would seem desirable. The term "temporary insanity" is one of popular origin and finds no place in strict legal terminology. The defense of incapacity for the mens rea, legally speaking, is "insanity," not "temporary insanity." But because of the human desire for a mot convenable, we have come to apply the term "temporary insanity" to those …
Mens Rea In The Early Law Of Homicide, A. E. Funk Jr.
Mens Rea In The Early Law Of Homicide, A. E. Funk Jr.
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Early Causes And Development Of The Doctrine Of Mens Rea, Anne F. Noyes
Early Causes And Development Of The Doctrine Of Mens Rea, Anne F. Noyes
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
No abstract provided.