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Kidnapping Reconsidered: Courts Merger Tests Inadequately Remedy The Inequities Which Developed From Kidnapping's Sensationalized And Racialized History, Samuel P. Newton

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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Recidivist Sentencing And The Sixth Amendment, Benjamin E. Adams

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

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Federal Protection For "Fur-Babies": A Legislative Proposal, Rebecca Ferrari

Pepperdine Law Review

Americans love their animals, but America doesn’t protect them. Across the country, animals continue to be classified as mere property, undeserving of any basic rights and unprotected by the animal welfare statutes that do exist, but often remain unenforced. This Article proposes a comprehensive animal protection system that includes the following components: (a) general prohibitions against animal crushing, cruelty, neglect, and abuse; (b) a civil action provision that will allow humane society officers to investigate violations of those prohibitions; (c) a provision establishing animal legal advocates to work alongside the officers and prosecute violations; and (d) an animal-suit provision to …

State V. Bassett: Washington Courts Can No Longer Sentence Juveniles To Die In Prison, Carolyn Mount

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Beat The Heat: Texas’S Need To Reduce Summer Temperatures In Offender Housing, Mary E. Adair

St. Mary's Law Journal

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s lack of air conditioning in offender housing areas is a violation of the Eighth Amendment and deprives offenders of humane living conditions. Unlike most Texans, offenders housed in the TDCJ are unable to adequately protect themselves from the higher, prolonged summer temperatures. Most Texas prisons do not provide air conditioning or other types of cooling systems in offender housing areas, so offenders are at the mercy of the elements with little protection against heat-related illnesses. Several jurisdictions, other than Texas, have recognized extreme temperatures in housing areas can lead to constitutional violations because the …

Felony Disenfranchisement And The Nineteenth Amendment, Michael Gentithes

Akron Law Review

The Nineteenth Amendment and the history of the women’s suffrage movement can offer a compelling argument against felony disenfranchisement laws. These laws leave approximately six million citizens unable to vote, often for crimes wholly unrelated to the political process. They also increasingly threaten gains in female enfranchisement.

Today’s arguments in support of felony disenfranchisement laws bear striking similarities to the arguments of anti-suffragists more than a century earlier. Both suggest that a traditionally subordinated class of citizens is inherently incapable of bearing the responsibility that the right to vote entails, and that their votes are somehow less worthy than others. …

The Right To A Public Trial In The Time Of Covid-19, Stephen E. Smith

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

Maintaining social distance in the time of COVID-19 is a public health priority. A crowded courtroom is an environment at odds with public health needs. Accordingly, until science determines otherwise, it will be necessary for judges to manage courtroom attendance and exclude the public from trials, wholly or in part. Courtrooms may be closed to the public, despite the Sixth Amendment’s right to a public trial, when the closure is justified by a strong government interest and is narrowly tailored to further that interest. Typically, this heightened scrutiny is applied on a case-by-case basis and turns on a case’s specific …

The Unqualified Mess Of Qualified Immunity; A Doctrine Worth Overruling, Allison Weiss

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

This comment is a response to Ryan E. Johnson, Note, Supervisors Without Supervision: Colon, McKenna, and the Confusing State of Supervisory Liability in the Second Circuit, 77 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 457 (2020), which received the 2019 Washington and Lee Law Council Law Review Award.

In his note, Ryan Johnson drills down on the various ways that courts within the Second Circuit are approaching the viability of § 1983 lawsuits by incarcerated individuals against supervisors within correctional facilities. But how important is supervisory liability in the first place? Qualified immunity allows courts, as Mr. Johnson puts …

“We Can’T Just Throw Our Children Away”: A Discussion Of The Term-Of-Years Sentencing Of Juveniles And What Can Be Done In Texas, Anjelica Harris

Texas A&M Law Review

In the words of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, children are different. The issue of how to sentence juvenile offenders has long been controversial. Although psychology acknowledges the connection between incomplete juvenile brain development and increased criminality, the justice system lags behind in how it handles juvenile offenders. A prime example is the case of Bobby Bostic, who at the age of sixteen was charged with eighteen offenses and sentenced to 241 years in prison. This sentence, known as a term-of-years or virtual life sentence, essentially guarantees that no matter what Bobby does or who he proves himself to be …

Analisis Hukum Skema Kontrak Gross Split Terhadap Peningkatan Investasi Hulu Minyak Dan Gas Bumi, Muhammad Fajri

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

As a solution to the problems of the Cost Recovery production sharing contract system, the Government of Indonesia through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources issued Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia Regulation Number 08 of 2017 concerning Gross Split Production Sharing Contracts. This new regulation is motivated by the low number and length of time of the discovery of oil and gas reserves, along with the Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP) which continues to decline in the upstream oil and gas sector. The Gross Split profit sharing scheme also offers bureaucratic cuts in investment …

Peliputan Secara Langsung Persidangan Perkara Pidana Oleh Media Televisi Dihubungkan Dengan Asas Pemeriksaan Di Pengadilan Terbuka Untuk Umum Dalam Rangka Pembaharuan Hukum Acara Pidana, Merti Ardilla, Elis Rusmiati, Ijud Tajudin

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

In the practice of judiciary in Indonesia, the phenomenon of direct trial of cases of punishment by the press appeared and then broadcast live through television media, this could occur in a situation as a trial announced for the public. This practice has a negative impact, among others, will refute the principle of the presumption of innocence and have an impact on the evidence at the trial. This study aims to find out and analyze the provisions regarding the coverage of trials in court by disputes with the public interest and the principle of examination at the trial open to …

Legalization Of Abortion Against Victims Of Rape Crimes Viewed From Victimology Perspective, Siska Elvandari

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

One of human rights guaranteed and protected in the 1945 Constitution is the right to live and maintain life, stated in Article 28 A of the 1945 Constitution. The right to live and maintain life is the highest right that is inherent in human beings as the subject of law since humans were born to death in the world. The right to live and maintain life is not only inherent in human beings who have been born, but also in humans or children who are still in the womb, stated in Article II of the Civil Code that "Children are …

On Proposal To Regulate Abuse Of Superior Bargaining Position: Lessons From Other Jurisdictions, Meirani Suyawan, Kurnia Togar Pandapotan Tanjung

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The latest version of the draft bill regarding Law on the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices and Unfair Business Competition has added new arrangements about the abuse of a superior bargaining position. The new law proposal which is intended to amend existing Indonesian competition law (Law Number 5 Year 1999) stipulates that any business actor is prohibited from abuse its superior bargaining position within a partnership agreement with other less dominant entities. Under Law Number 20 Year 2008 on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, a partnership agreement means any agreement made between micro, small and medium enterprises and large enterprises like …

Politik Hukum Pidana Terhadap Perbuatan Narapidana Melarikan Diri Dari Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Di Indonesia, Muhammad Fatahillah Akbar

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Prison escape has been committed by many prisoners in several correctional institutions in Indonesia. Since it is not a crime under Indonesian Law, the punishment of the action is merely an discipline sanction. Then, the existing punishment is not sufficient to prevent and eradicate prison escape. Hence, the rehabilitation by the correctional system will never work. This paper aims to analyse how the existing legislation regulates on the prison escape and how the viable regulation in prison escape. It is proven than in the Act on Correctional Institution and in the other relevan regulations, prison escape can never be investigated …

Partisipasi Perempuan Dalam Proses Pengambilan Keputusan Di Dewan Adat Terkait Dengan Penyelesaian Kasus-Kasus Kekerasan Terhadap Perempuan: Kisah Dari Atambua, Sumba Timur, Rote Dan Labuan Bajo, Lidwina Inge Nurtjahyo

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Based on Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, especially in Articles 2c, 5a, 7b and c, 15 (1) and (2) women and men are equal. If there are any discriminations, the states which have ratified the Convention shall eliminate the discriminations from rules or tradition or practices. Women in some indigenous communities have some limitation in decision making process, even in the process to get solution in violence aghaainst women cases. For examples in Rote, Labuan Bajo, East Sumba and Atambua (East Nusa Tenggara) women have limited access to the decision-making process in indigenous forums even in cases of …

Pelaksanaan E-Court Menurut Perma Nomor 3 Tahun 2018 Tentang Administrasi Perkara Di Pengadilan Secara Elektronik Dan E-Litigation Menurut Perma Nomor 1 Tahun 2019 Tentang Administrasi Perkara Dan Persidangan Di Pengadilan Secara Elektronik (Studi Di Pengadilan Negeri Di Indonesia), Sonyendah Retnaningsih, Disriani Latifah Soroinda Nasution, Rouli Anita Velentina, Kelly Manthovani

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The process of resolving cases at a trial is not always carried out conventionally ie the parties come directly to the trial but can be done online. This is marked by the launch of the e-court application on July 13, 2018. With the launch of the e-court application, the Supreme Court has moved towards electronic justice which will fundamentally change the practice of litigation services in the courts. Since the issuance of Supreme Court Regulation No. 1 of 2019 concerning Administrative of Cases and Trials in Electronic Courts on August 19, 2019, the Supreme Court Regulation No. 3 of 2018 …

Urgensi Revisi Undang-Undang Nomor 6 Tahun 2014 Tentang Desa Perihal Pembangunan Desa, Dian Herdiana

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The enactment of Law Number 6 of 2014 on Villages brings optimism to the creation of village development that is able to realize village autonomy. But in practice, the Village Law has not been able to realize the development goals. On this basis, this article is intended to examine village development from the perspective of the substance of the Village Law. The method used in this study is a juridical-normative method with a descriptive approach. The results of the study show that the substance of the Village Law does not give full authority to the villages in local-participatory development, even …

Hubungan Keuangan Pemerintah Pusat Dan Daerah Dalam Penyelenggaraan Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional, Amelia Martira, Harsanto Nursadi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Indonesia’s National Health Security (NHS) has begun since 2014 which give a lot of benefits to people in Indonesia. Access to health care become more easier without giving financial hardship. However, there are some obstacles that Indonesia NHS facing, which one is deficit in pool funding that is not enough to pay the benefits. One of newer solution to overcome this problem is by activating the resources from local government, especially from the funding. Basically, decentralization is the framework of the central and local government relation in Indonesia, by transferring power, authority and financial of health functional assignment to local …

Pengembangan Kapasitas Usaha Kecil Menengah Dalam Memanfaatkan Sistem Hak Kekayaan Intelektual Bagi Peningkatan Daya Saing Usaha, Ranggalawe Suryasaladin

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

As a main contributor to Indonesia GDP, Small and Medium Enterprises should be assisted by Goverment and University in order to expand its capacity in managing their intangible assets and intellectual property. The efforts in giving guidance to SMEs in managing its IP and take a benefit of IP systems could be on the mapping of problems faced by SMEs in managing its IP and addressing a better policy recommendation suitable to solves it problems. This article streghtening the arguments that to enhance Indonesia SME capacities in managing its IP , the government institutions and university have to coopertate in …

Merekonstruksi Paradigma Gugatan Citizen Lawsuit Di Indonesia Sebagai Sengketa Administrasi, Muhammad Adiguna Bimasakti

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Citizen Lawsuit is an alternative law enforcement mechanism for citizens. Every citizen has the same right to file a Citizen Lawsuit in the court. However, the problems are that there is no definite regulation regarding the authority to adjudicate Citizen Lawsuit, and its contact with the “Judicial Review” which is the constitutional authority of the Supreme Court. In addition there are also problems related to discretionary authority where there is a prohibition for judges to judge the good and bad of the government's discretionary actions. This paper tries to answer these problems through normative and theoretical approaches. The contact between …

Peran Dan Fungsi Notaris Dalam Pembuatan Kontrak Bagi Hasil Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Di Indonesia, Zakia Vonna, Sri Walny Rahayu, M. Nur

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This article describes contract as one of the essential elements in commercial law, one of which is the oil and gas sector. Therefore, in drafting the contract in the sector, requirements set in prevailing laws and regulation need to be met. In practice, notaries are often involved as public officials in the process of contract drafting in accordance with Article 15 of Law No 2 of 2014 regarding the amendment for Law No 30 of 2004 regarding the Legal Constitution of Notary Public Profession, because they are state officials who are authorized to draft and ratify contracts. This research was …

Analyses Of Prosecutorial Power And Discretion In Mississippi: Evaluating Proposals To Address Misconduct And Abuse, Lucy Pruitt

Honors Theses

This thesis seeks to create a policy proposal in order to address incidences of prosecutorial misconduct and abuse of discretion in the Mississippi criminal justice system. To do so, the author has summarized and analyzed seven criminal cases in which defendants have become victims of prosecutorial misconduct in order to shed light on the lack of prosecutorial accountability in the state’s criminal justice system. In an attempt to solve the problem, the author has developed a novel grading rubric in order to objectively and systematically analyze and evaluate previously proposed policy recommendations by legal experts and justice organizations. The successes …

Pencemaran Nama Baik Dan Penghinaan Melalui Media Teknologi Informasi Komunikasi Di Indonesia Pasca Amandemen Uu Ite, Anton Hendrik Samudra

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The amendment of the ITE Law is conducted to provide better legal certainty. This is an effort to respond to society development and aims to provide better legal protection and justice. The implementation of freedom of expression in the media of Information Communication Technology (ICT) affecting the number of defamation. With the amendment of ITE law, it is necessary to examine the nature of defamation offense and libel through ICT media.

Rule Of Law, Neoliberalisme Dan Proyek Reformasi Hukum World Bank: Perspektif Critical Legal Studies, Syahriza Alkohir Anggoro

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The emergence of World Bank legal reform projects in promoting the rule of law has been successful to encourage third world countries to reform their legal aspects to help formulate market friendly policy. This article tries to question the concept of rule of law that is materialized in many World Bank legal reform projects by using critical legal perspective to analysis legal scholarship on the role of law in the context of development. It trying to present an alternative explanation of World Bank’s rule of law which we are hypothetizing as a neoliberal concept. World Bank’s rule of law are …

Bucklew V. Precythe'S Return To The Original Meaning Of "Unusual": Prohibiting Extensive Delays On Death Row, Jacob Leon

Cleveland State Law Review

The Supreme Court, in Bucklew v. Precythe, provided an originalist interpretation of the term “unusual” in the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This originalist interpretation asserted that the word “unusual” proscribes punishments that have “long fallen out of use.” To support its interpretation, the Supreme Court cited John Stinneford’s well-known law review article The Original Meaning of “Unusual”: The Eighth Amendment as a Bar to Cruel Innovation. This Article, as Bucklew did, accepts Stinneford’s interpretation of the word “unusual” as correct. Under Stinneford’s interpretation, the term “unusual” is a legal term of art derived from eighteenth-century …

Limited Privacy In “Pings:” Why Law Enforcement’S Use Of Cell-Site Simulators Does Not Categorically Violate The Fourth Amendment, Lara M. Mcmahon

Washington and Lee Law Review

This Note proposes four factors courts should consider when asked to determine whether law enforcement’s use of a cell-site simulator constituted a Fourth Amendment search. The first asks courts to consider whether the cell-site simulator surveillance infringed on a constitutionally protected area, such as the home. The second asks courts to consider the duration of the cell-site simulator surveillance. The third asks courts to consider whether the cell-site simulator surveillance was conducted actively or passively. The fourth asks courts to focus on the nature and depth of the information obtained as a result of the cell-site simulator surveillance. If, after …

Growing Old And Getting Sick Are Dangerous In Prison: A Moral And Legal Argument For “Justice, Not Vengeance”, Jillian Sauer

Undergraduate Theses

In 2017 the Kentucky DOC reported that Kentucky prisons housed 2,521 persons categorized as “elderly”. Even though individuals in this population are more susceptible to violence and risk developing age-related illnesses the care of these individuals is not a financial priority for those in power. These individuals occupy a unique position as a marginalized group within a marginalized group, and one which is growing rapidly. As a result, it is necessary to develop a response drawing from Catholic social teaching and criminal justice ethics which addresses the unique problems faced by this population. At the core of this response is …

State V. Violette: Harsher Resentencing Encounters A Bolder Resumption Of Vindictiveness, Thomas C. Bradley

Maine Law Review

Twenty-one years ago, in Weeks v. State, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court, adopted a rule to prevent judicial vindictiveness when resentencing defendants who had successfully appealed their conviction and been reconvicted. The Weeks court adopted as a state due process protection the United States Supreme Court's rule laid down the preceding year in North Carolina v. Pearce. The Pearce rule provides that harsher resentencing of such defendants creates a presumption of constitutionally prohibited vindictiveness unless the harsher sentence is explicitly based on some identifiable misconduct by the defendant since the prior sentencing. Thus, the Law …

State V. Pinkham: Erosion Of Meaningful Forth Amendment Protection For Vehicle Stops In Maine?, Roger M. Clement Jr.

Maine Law Review

In State v. Pinkham, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court, held that a police officer's stop of a motorist to inquire and advise about the motorist's improper-but not illegal-lane usage did not necessarily violate the Fourth Amendment's proscription against unreasonable seizures. The Pinkham decision is the first time that the Law Court has validated the stop of a moving vehicle in the absence of either a suspected violation of law or an imminent, ongoing threat to highway safety.
This Note considers whether the Law Court was correct in sustaining the police officer's stop of Ronald Pinkham. …

Please Stop: The Law Court's Recent Roadblock Decisions, Jonathan A. Block

Maine Law Review

Police checkpoints or “roadblocks” have become an increasingly utilized law enforcement tool. At best, these checkpoints result in only a minor inconvenience to motorists. When abused, however, roadblocks have the potential for invidious invasions of privacy and personal freedom. Roadblocks are designed to deter, and to a lesser extent detect, criminal activity by stopping everyone—both the guilty and the law-abiding—for a brief inspection, thereby impinging to some degree on one's freedom of travel, privacy, and “right to be let alone.” Such “seizures” must be “reasonable” under the Fourth Amendment in order to survive constitutional challenge. The major difference between roadblocks …