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Petty Offenses, Serious Consequences: Multiple Petty Offenses And The Sixth Amendment Right To Jury Trial, Jeff E. Butler
Petty Offenses, Serious Consequences: Multiple Petty Offenses And The Sixth Amendment Right To Jury Trial, Jeff E. Butler
Michigan Law Review
In Blanton v. City of North Las Vegas, the Supreme Court set forth the definitive standard for distinguishing petty offenses from serious crimes.7 The benchmark used by the Court is the maximum prison term assigned to each offense by the legislature. Where the penalty exceeds six months' imprisonment, the offense is serious enough to trigger the right to jury trial. Where the penalty is six months' imprisonment or less, there is a strong presumption that the offense is petty; therefore, a defendant accused of that offense has no Sixth Amendment right to jury trial.
This Note argues that a criminal …
Putting Women First, Mary Coombs
Putting Women First, Mary Coombs
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Gender, Crime, and Punishment by Kathleen Daly
The Single-Scheme Exception To Criminal Deportations And The Case For Chevron's Step Two, David A. Luigs
The Single-Scheme Exception To Criminal Deportations And The Case For Chevron's Step Two, David A. Luigs
Michigan Law Review
This Note applies the two-step Chevron analysis to the single-scheme exception and argues that courts should reject the BIA's single-act test. In applying Chevron, this Note uses the narrow controversy over the proper interpretation of the single-scheme exception as a window on the larger ambiguity that plagues the Supreme Court's Chevron jurisprudence. This Note suggests an answer to a broader issue that has remained unclear under the Supreme Court's precedents: how courts should review agency interpretations at Chevron's second step.
Nothing But The Truth? Transitional Regimes Confront The Past, Joan Fitzpatrick
Nothing But The Truth? Transitional Regimes Confront The Past, Joan Fitzpatrick
Michigan Journal of International Law
Review of Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice (Naomi Roht-Arriaza ed.)
Computer-Related Crimes, Michael W. Carroll
Computer-Related Crimes, Michael W. Carroll
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