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Proving The Lie: Litigating Police Credibility, David N. Dorfman
Proving The Lie: Litigating Police Credibility, David N. Dorfman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This essay proposes a wider scope for a somewhat timeworn discussion-specifically, that police mendacity and the need to deter this form of police misconduct go to the very heart of our criminal justice system and the need for trust in government and its processes, which search and seizure law and practice is only a small part. Being only a part of a much larger systemic societal problem, tinkering with search and seizure law and process alone will not heighten the police witness' respect for the oath.
Victims' Rights: Rethinking Our "Adversary System", William T. Pizzi
Victims' Rights: Rethinking Our "Adversary System", William T. Pizzi
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Lost Lives: Miscarriages Of Justice In Capital Cases, Samuel R. Gross
Lost Lives: Miscarriages Of Justice In Capital Cases, Samuel R. Gross
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In case after case, erroneous conviction for capital murder has been proven. I contend that these are not disconnected accidents, but systematic consequences of the nature of homicice prosecution in the general and capital prosecution in particular - that in this respect, as in others, death distorts and undermines the course of the law.