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Emergency Contraceptives Or "Abortion-Inducing" Drugs? Empowering Women To Make Informed Decisions, Ryan M. Hrobak, Robin Fretwell Wilson Mar 2014

Emergency Contraceptives Or "Abortion-Inducing" Drugs? Empowering Women To Make Informed Decisions, Ryan M. Hrobak, Robin Fretwell Wilson

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Toward A Right To Litigate Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Ty Alper Mar 2013

Toward A Right To Litigate Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Ty Alper

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Why Gideon Failed: Politics And Feedback Loops In The Reform Of Criminal Justice, Donald A. Dripps Mar 2013

Why Gideon Failed: Politics And Feedback Loops In The Reform Of Criminal Justice, Donald A. Dripps

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Heeding Gideon’S Call In The Twenty-First Century: Holistic Defense And The New Public Defense Paradigm, Robin Steinberg Mar 2013

Heeding Gideon’S Call In The Twenty-First Century: Holistic Defense And The New Public Defense Paradigm, Robin Steinberg

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The Problem With Misdemeanor Representation, Erica Hashimoto Mar 2013

The Problem With Misdemeanor Representation, Erica Hashimoto

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Gideon Skepticism, Alexandra Natapoff Mar 2013

Gideon Skepticism, Alexandra Natapoff

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The criminal defense lawyer occupies a special doctrinal place in criminal procedure. It is the primary structural guarantor of fairness, the single most important source of validation for individual convictions. Conversely, if a person did have a competent lawyer, it generates a set of presumptions that his trial was in fact fair, the evidence sufficient, and his plea knowing and voluntary. This is a highly problematic legal fiction. The presence of counsel advances but cannot guarantee fair trials and voluntary pleas. More fundamentally, a lawyer in an individual case will often be powerless to address a wide variety of systemic …


Crashing The Misdemeanor System, Jenny Roberts Mar 2013

Crashing The Misdemeanor System, Jenny Roberts

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Two Rights To Counsel, Josh Bowers Mar 2013

Two Rights To Counsel, Josh Bowers

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Too Poor To Hire A Lawyer But Not Indigent: How States Use The Federal Poverty Guidelines To Deprive Defendants Of Their Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel, John P. Gross Mar 2013

Too Poor To Hire A Lawyer But Not Indigent: How States Use The Federal Poverty Guidelines To Deprive Defendants Of Their Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel, John P. Gross

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Criminal Defense Lawyer Moneyball: A Demonstration Project, Ronald F. Wright, Ralph A. Peeples Mar 2013

Criminal Defense Lawyer Moneyball: A Demonstration Project, Ronald F. Wright, Ralph A. Peeples

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Unstoppable V. Unwaivable, Steven Benjamin Mar 2013

Unstoppable V. Unwaivable, Steven Benjamin

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Shrinking Gideon And Expanding Alternatives To Lawyers, Stephanos Bibas Mar 2013

Shrinking Gideon And Expanding Alternatives To Lawyers, Stephanos Bibas

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Getting Real About Gideon: The Next Fifty Years Of Enforcing The Right To Counsel, Cara H. Drinan Mar 2013

Getting Real About Gideon: The Next Fifty Years Of Enforcing The Right To Counsel, Cara H. Drinan

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“Potential Innocence”: Making The Most Of A Bleak Environment For Public Support Of Indigent Defense, Robert P. Mosteller Mar 2013

“Potential Innocence”: Making The Most Of A Bleak Environment For Public Support Of Indigent Defense, Robert P. Mosteller

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Lamentations, Celebrations, And Innovations: Gideon At 50, John D. King Mar 2013

Lamentations, Celebrations, And Innovations: Gideon At 50, John D. King

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Validating The Right To Counsel, Brandon L. Garrett Mar 2013

Validating The Right To Counsel, Brandon L. Garrett

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Gideon Was A Prisoner: On Criminal Defense In A Time Of Mass Incarceration, Abbe Smith Mar 2013

Gideon Was A Prisoner: On Criminal Defense In A Time Of Mass Incarceration, Abbe Smith

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Why Strickland Is The Wrong Test For Violations Of The Right To Testify, Daniel J. Capra, Joseph Tartakovsky Jan 2013

Why Strickland Is The Wrong Test For Violations Of The Right To Testify, Daniel J. Capra, Joseph Tartakovsky

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A criminal accused has a constitutional right to testify in his own defense. The right has an undisputed place alongside the most important “personal” rights, like the right to remain silent or the right to represent oneself. But in the 1990s, courts began to apply the ineffective-assistance test of Strickland v. Washington to evaluate claims by a defendant that his right to testify was abridged. In practice this nullifies the right. Moreover, the Strickland test is inapposite because it focuses on counsel and not the defendant’s right to testify. This Article proposes a new test to better secure and enforce …


Limiting The Legislative Privilege: Analyzing The Scope Of The Speech Or Debate Clause, Kelly M. Mcguire Sep 2012

Limiting The Legislative Privilege: Analyzing The Scope Of The Speech Or Debate Clause, Kelly M. Mcguire

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Congress, The Constitution, And Supreme Court Recusal, Louis J. Virelli Iii Jun 2012

Congress, The Constitution, And Supreme Court Recusal, Louis J. Virelli Iii

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Recusal is one of the most hotly contested issues facing the Supreme Court. From the wide-ranging debate over Supreme Court recusal, however, a singular theme has emerged: Congress must do more to protect the integrity and legitimacy of the Court by regulating the Justices’ recusal practices. Herein lies the problem. Rather than solve the puzzle of Supreme Court recusal, direct congressional regulation has created an impasse between Congress and the Court that has consequences for the reputation, efficacy, and legitimacy of both Branches. In a precursor to this Article, I recast the issue of Supreme Court recusal as a constitutional …


Csli Disclosure: Why Probable Cause Is Necessary To Protect What’S Left Of The Fourth Amendment, Steven M. Harkins Sep 2011

Csli Disclosure: Why Probable Cause Is Necessary To Protect What’S Left Of The Fourth Amendment, Steven M. Harkins

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Attorney Advice And The First Amendment, Renee Newman Knake Mar 2011

Attorney Advice And The First Amendment, Renee Newman Knake

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An attorney’s advice for navigating and, when necessary, challenging the law is essential to American democracy. Yet the constitutional protection afforded to this category of speech is not clear; indeed, some question whether it should be protected at all. While legal ethics scholars have addressed attorney speech in other circumstances, none has focused exclusively on the First Amendment protection for attorney advice, particularly in light of the Supreme Court’s recent attention to the matter. Nor have constitutional law scholars given this issue the attention it deserves, though they acknowledge that it presents an important and unresolved question within First Amendment …


The Church Amendment: In Search Of Enforcement, Nathaniel James Mar 2011

The Church Amendment: In Search Of Enforcement, Nathaniel James

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Sigtarp And The Executive-Legislative Clash: Confronting A Bowsher Issue With An Eye Toward Preserving The Separation Of Powers During Future Crisis Legislation, Aaron R. Sims Jan 2011

Sigtarp And The Executive-Legislative Clash: Confronting A Bowsher Issue With An Eye Toward Preserving The Separation Of Powers During Future Crisis Legislation, Aaron R. Sims

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Sigtarp: A Problem In Name Only?, Adam F. Scales Jan 2011

Sigtarp: A Problem In Name Only?, Adam F. Scales

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Finding Sigtarp In The Separation Of Powers Labyrinth, Jonathan R. Siegel Jan 2011

Finding Sigtarp In The Separation Of Powers Labyrinth, Jonathan R. Siegel

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Copyright And The First Amendment: Comrades, Combatants, Or Uneasy Allies?, Joseph P. Bauer Jun 2010

Copyright And The First Amendment: Comrades, Combatants, Or Uneasy Allies?, Joseph P. Bauer

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The copyright regime and the First Amendment seek to promote the same goals. Both seek the creation and dissemination of more, better, and more diverse literary, pictorial, musical and other works. But, they use significantly different means to achieve those goals. The copyright Laws afford to the creator of a work the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, transform, and perform that work for an extended period of time. The First Amendment, on the other hand, proclaims that Congress "shall make no Law... abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, " thus at least nominally indicating that limitations on …


Protecting Blogging: The Need For An Actual Disruption Standard In Pickering, Lindsay A. Hitz Jun 2010

Protecting Blogging: The Need For An Actual Disruption Standard In Pickering, Lindsay A. Hitz

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The Story Of Us: Resolving The Face-Off Between Autobiographical Speech And Information Privacy, Sonja R. West Mar 2010

The Story Of Us: Resolving The Face-Off Between Autobiographical Speech And Information Privacy, Sonja R. West

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Increasingly more "ordinary"A mericans are choosing to share their life experiences with a public audience. In doing so, however, they are revealing more than their own personal stories; they are exposing private information about others as well. The faceoff between autobiographical speech and information privacy is coming to a head, and our legal system is not prepared to handle it. In a prior article, I established that autobiographicals peech is a unique and important category of speech that is at risk of being undervalued under current Law. This Article builds on my earlier work by addressing the emerging conflict between …


Police Paternalism: Community Caretaking, Assistance Searches, And Fourth Amendment Reasonableness, Michael R. Dimino, Sr. Sep 2009

Police Paternalism: Community Caretaking, Assistance Searches, And Fourth Amendment Reasonableness, Michael R. Dimino, Sr.

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