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Retribution: The Central Aim Of Punishment, Gerard V. Bradley Oct 2013

Retribution: The Central Aim Of Punishment, Gerard V. Bradley

Gerard V. Bradley

When I worked for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in the early 1980s, criminal sentences were consistently and dramatically too lenient. Though those years marked the ebb tide for the rehabilitative ideal of punishment and indeterminate "zip-to-ten" sentences, only career felons and those convicted of the most serious crimes were candidates for the sentences they justly deserved. Hamstrung by apparently silly rules of constitutional etiquette and bureaucratic sclerosis, the police were eclipsed in the mind of the public by the cold-blooded Everyman, bound only by the law of the jungle and some elusive sense of justice. Ultimately, popular demand required …


Did Congress Intend For Corporations To Benefit From The Mvra? A Look At The Legislative History Of The Mandatory Victims Restitution Act Of 1996 And The Courts’ Application Of The Mvra To Corporations, Leslie M. Villacis Mar 2013

Did Congress Intend For Corporations To Benefit From The Mvra? A Look At The Legislative History Of The Mandatory Victims Restitution Act Of 1996 And The Courts’ Application Of The Mvra To Corporations, Leslie M. Villacis

Leslie M. Villacis

This paper reflects upon the legislative interpretation of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996 as well as the differing interpretations of the federal statute by numerous courts across the United States in order to explore whether there was a Congressional intent for corporations to benefit from the statute. The paper begins this discussion by introducing the MVRA's most recent application by the Southern District Court of New York in United States v. Gupta.


Quantum Meruit For The Subcontractor: Has Restitution Jumped Off Dawson's Dock?, Doug Rendleman Feb 2013

Quantum Meruit For The Subcontractor: Has Restitution Jumped Off Dawson's Dock?, Doug Rendleman

Doug Rendleman

No abstract provided.


Common Law Restitution In The Mississippi Tobacco Settlement: Did The Smoke Get In Their Eyes?, Doug Rendleman Feb 2013

Common Law Restitution In The Mississippi Tobacco Settlement: Did The Smoke Get In Their Eyes?, Doug Rendleman

Doug Rendleman

No abstract provided.


Common Law Restitution In The Mississippi Tobacco Settlement: Did The Smoke Get In Their Eyes?, Doug Rendleman Jan 2013

Common Law Restitution In The Mississippi Tobacco Settlement: Did The Smoke Get In Their Eyes?, Doug Rendleman

Doug Rendleman

No abstract provided.


Criminal Forfeiture Procedure In 2013: An Annual Survey Of Developments In The Case Law, Stefan D. Cassella Dec 2012

Criminal Forfeiture Procedure In 2013: An Annual Survey Of Developments In The Case Law, Stefan D. Cassella

Stefan D Cassella

This is another in a series of articles on developments in the federal case law relating to criminal forfeiture procedure. It covers the cases decided in 2012 and early 2013. The article begins with the cases that illustrate the concept that criminal forfeiture is part of the defendant’s sentence in a criminal case. It then takes the reader more or less chronologically through the litigation of a case, beginning with the seizure and restraint of the property and continuing through the trial and sentencing of the defendant and the adjudication of third-party issues in the post-trial ancillary proceeding. Except in …