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Full-Text Articles in Law
Wrongly Accused Redux: How Race Contributes To Convicting The Innocent: The Informants Example, Andrew E. Taslitz
Wrongly Accused Redux: How Race Contributes To Convicting The Innocent: The Informants Example, Andrew E. Taslitz
School of Law Faculty Publications
This article analyzes five forces that may raise the risk of convicting the innocent based upon the suspect's race: the selection, ratchet, procedural justice, bystanders, and aggressive-suspicion effects. In other words, subconscious forces press police to focus more attention on racial minorites, the ratchet makes this focus every-increasing, the resulting sense by the community of unfair treatment raises its involvment in crime while lowering its willingness to aid the police in resisting crime, innocent persons suffer when their skin color becomes associated with criminality, and the police use more aggressive techniques on racial minorities in a way that raises the …
Nontestimonial Identification Orders For Dna Testing, Paul C. Giannelli
Nontestimonial Identification Orders For Dna Testing, Paul C. Giannelli
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Pretrial Discovery Of Expert Testimony, Paul C. Giannelli
Pretrial Discovery Of Expert Testimony, Paul C. Giannelli
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Methinks The Lady Doth Protest Too Little: Reassessing The Probative Value Of Silence, Mikah K. Thompson
Methinks The Lady Doth Protest Too Little: Reassessing The Probative Value Of Silence, Mikah K. Thompson
Faculty Works
The syllogism goes as follows: major premise - Innocent people proclaim their innocence in response to an accusation; minor premise - Defendant failed to respond to an officer's accusation that he killed his wife; conclusion - Defendant is guilty of killing his wife. This syllogism is the basis upon which courts and lawmakers allow a defendant's silence to be admitted into evidence as proof of guilt. They reason that it is quite appropriate for jurors to infer that innocent people would proclaim their innocence and, therefore, a defendant's decision not to speak constitutes evidence of his or her guilt.
This …
To Speak Or Not To Speak: Navigating The Treacherous Waters Of Parallel Investigations Following The Amendment Of Federal Rule Of Evidence 408, Mikah K. Thompson
To Speak Or Not To Speak: Navigating The Treacherous Waters Of Parallel Investigations Following The Amendment Of Federal Rule Of Evidence 408, Mikah K. Thompson
Faculty Works
In 2006, the Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules surprised many scholars when it amended Federal Rule of Evidence 408 concerning the admissibility of offers of compromise. Prior to its amendment, Rule 408 generally prohibited the admissibility of statements made during settlement talks when offered to prove or disprove liability. The newly amended Rule 408 creates an exception for statements made to government officials during settlement talks when the official is acting in a civil capacity.
The drafters of the new Rule 408 believe that statements made to private litigants during settlement talks deserve greater protection than statements made to government …
Teaching Evidence, Paul F. Rothstein
Teaching Evidence, Paul F. Rothstein
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article was published as part of the 2006 teaching issue of the Saint Louis University Law Journal. The teaching series was created as a forum for scholars, judges, and students to discuss methods for the effective teaching and learning of particular law school courses. In this essay, Professor Rothstein describes his philosophy and methods for teaching evidence.
Does Congress Find Facts Or Construct Them - The Ascendance Of Politics Over Reliability, Perfected In Gonzales V. Carhart, Elizabeth De Coux
Does Congress Find Facts Or Construct Them - The Ascendance Of Politics Over Reliability, Perfected In Gonzales V. Carhart, Elizabeth De Coux
Cleveland State Law Review
The disparity between the rules of courts and the rules of Congress gives rise to this question: is the rigor-or lack of it-with which Congress evaluates the reliability of evidence an appropriate factor for courts to consider in deciding whether to defer to a congressional finding? In this Article, I consider whether Congress should adopt rules to fill the void. In Part I, I give a brief summary of the development and use of Congressional Committees. In Part II, I analyze several modern-day congressional hearings in an effort to examine the degree to which Congress and its committees require that …
Proving Causation: The Holism Of Warrant And The Atomism Of Daubert, Susan Haack
Proving Causation: The Holism Of Warrant And The Atomism Of Daubert, Susan Haack
Articles
No abstract provided.
Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence In The U.S. Courts, Jane Moriarty
Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence In The U.S. Courts, Jane Moriarty
Jane Campbell Moriarty
This article explores the admissibility of neuroimaging evidence in U.S. courts, recognizing various trends in decisions about such evidence. While courts have routinely admitted some neuroimages, such as CT scans and MRI, as proof of trauma and disease, they have been more circumspect about admitting the PET and SPECT scans and fMRI evidence. With the latter technologies, courts have often expressed reservations about what can be inferred from the images. Moreover, courts seem unwilling to find neuroimaging sufficient to prove either insanity or incompetency, but are relatively lenient about admitting neuroimages in death penalty hearings. Some claim that fMRI and …
Evidence Codification And Transubstantive And Bifurcated Evidence Codes, John Capowski
Evidence Codification And Transubstantive And Bifurcated Evidence Codes, John Capowski
John J. Capowski
No abstract provided.
From A Plane Crash To The Conviction Of An Innocent Person: A Call On Lawmakers To Establish That Forensic Evidence Is Inadmissible Unless Forensic Equipment Is Developed As A Safety-Critical System, Dr. Boaz Sangero, Dr. Mordechai Halpert
From A Plane Crash To The Conviction Of An Innocent Person: A Call On Lawmakers To Establish That Forensic Evidence Is Inadmissible Unless Forensic Equipment Is Developed As A Safety-Critical System, Dr. Boaz Sangero, Dr. Mordechai Halpert
Prof. Boaz Sangero
According to existing law, a criminal conviction may be based on a single piece of scientific (forensic) evidence. Thus, for example, a DNA match could, on its own, lead to a conviction and a prolonged term of imprisonment, or even a death sentence. A testing error might result in the conviction of an innocent person. Therefore, the state has a duty to ensure that such evidence is as reliable as possible. This article protests an inconceivable situation: that the development of forensic equipment, which is designed to produce evidence that can be relied on in a criminal trial, is not …
Establishing Separate Criminal And Civil Evidence Codes, John J. Capowski
Establishing Separate Criminal And Civil Evidence Codes, John J. Capowski
John J. Capowski
Trial Tips: Structure In Direct Examination Wins Cases, J. Palmer Lockard Ii
Trial Tips: Structure In Direct Examination Wins Cases, J. Palmer Lockard Ii
J. Palmer Lockard II
The Trial-Time/Forum Principle And The Nature Of Evidence Rules, Alex Stein
The Trial-Time/Forum Principle And The Nature Of Evidence Rules, Alex Stein
Alex Stein
This Article examines two principles that settle temporal and jurisdictional conflicts between evidentiary rules: the trial-time principle and the forum principle. Under the trial-time principle, evidentiary rules that exist at the time of the trial override rules that existed before trial when the relevant action or transaction took place. Under the forum principle, evidentiary rules of the court’s jurisdiction override rules applicable in the jurisdiction in which the relevant action or transaction took place. These principles control the application of rules categorized as strictly evidentiary, as opposed to substantive. The Article explains, criticizes and refines this categorization.
The Right To Silence Helps The Innocent: A Response To Critics, Alex Stein
The Right To Silence Helps The Innocent: A Response To Critics, Alex Stein
Alex Stein
This contribution to the Cardozo Law Review symposium on the future of the Fifth Amendment responds to the numerous critics of Daniel J. Seidmann & Alex Stein, The Right to Silence Helps the Innocent: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Fifth Amendment Privilege, 114 HARV. L. REV. 430 (2000).
Under Seidmann and Stein’s theory, the right to silence protects innocents who find themselves unable to corroborate their self-exonerating accounts by verifiable evidence. Absent the right, guilty criminals would pool with innocents by making false self-exonerating statements. Factfinders would consequently discount the probative value of all uncorroborated exculpatory statements, at the expense …
Torts And Innovation, Alex Stein, Gideon Parchomovsky
Torts And Innovation, Alex Stein, Gideon Parchomovsky
Alex Stein
This Essay exposes and analyzes a hitherto overlooked cost of the current design of tort law: its adverse effect on innovation. Tort liability for negligence, defective products, and medical malpractice is determined by reference to custom. We demonstrate that courts’ reliance on custom and conventional technologies as the benchmark of liability chills innovation and distorts its path. Specifically, the recourse to custom taxes innovators and subsidizes replicators of conventional technologies. We explore the causes and consequences of this phenomenon and propose two possible ways to modify tort law in order to make it more welcoming to innovation.