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North Carolina's Unconstitutional Expansion Of An Ancient Maxim: Using Dwi Fatalities To Satisfy First-Degree Felony Murder, Graham T. Stiles Jan 1999

North Carolina's Unconstitutional Expansion Of An Ancient Maxim: Using Dwi Fatalities To Satisfy First-Degree Felony Murder, Graham T. Stiles

Campbell Law Review

This Comment argues that using a traffic fatality to satisfy the felony-murder rule is inappropriate. When the State prosecutes a DWI fatality under the felony murder rule, it diminishes the concept of an ancient doctrine. If it is the goal of the State to give life sentences or the death penalty for DWI fatalities, then it is the responsibility of the North Carolina General Assembly to enact a statute specifically dictating such punishment rather than the court judicially imposing the punishment through their interpretation of the felony-murder rule.


Searching For The "Tail Of The Dog": Finding "Elements" Of Crimes In The Wake Of Mcmillan V. Pennsylvania, Richard G. Singer, Mark D. Knoll Jan 1999

Searching For The "Tail Of The Dog": Finding "Elements" Of Crimes In The Wake Of Mcmillan V. Pennsylvania, Richard G. Singer, Mark D. Knoll

Seattle University Law Review

Part II of this Article will examine the historical importance of punishment as a litmus test in the common law in finding the elements of an offense. In Part III, the historical approach used by federal courts when value or quantity was at issue will be analyzed in order to round out the pre-McMillan framework. Part IV will discuss the McMillan decision, as well as the post-McMillan regime. Part V will analyze Jones v. United States, the case now pending before the Court, in which the Court may have its last chance to correct the error of McMillan and …


California's Sexually Violent Predator Act: The Role Of Psychiatrists, Courts, And Medical Determinations In Confining Sex Offenders, Carolyn B. Ramsey Jan 1999

California's Sexually Violent Predator Act: The Role Of Psychiatrists, Courts, And Medical Determinations In Confining Sex Offenders, Carolyn B. Ramsey

Publications

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Another Look At Evolving Standards: Will Decency Prevail Against Executing The Mentally Retarded?, Bryan Lester Dupler Jan 1999

Another Look At Evolving Standards: Will Decency Prevail Against Executing The Mentally Retarded?, Bryan Lester Dupler

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Constitutionalization Of Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Richard Klein Jan 1999

The Constitutionalization Of Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Richard Klein

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Identification Of The Unknown Soldier And The Fight For The Right To Anonymity: The Human Genome Project And Implications Of A National Dna Database, Kelly S. Erbes Jan 1999

Identification Of The Unknown Soldier And The Fight For The Right To Anonymity: The Human Genome Project And Implications Of A National Dna Database, Kelly S. Erbes

Cleveland State Law Review

The focus of this writing is the use of DNA for identification purposes and the issues that arise when genetic traits and/or predisposition to physical or mental conditions are linked to the individual specifically, along with the implications of a national DNA database as a system of identification. It has become the general rule that it is not an unreasonable invasion of privacy to take DNA for the purpose of identifying criminal offenders through a DNA database. This writing will examine the potential for nonconsensual inclusion of nearly everyone into such a system, as well as the ramifications in the …


The Leak And The Craft: A Hard Line Proposal To Stop Unaccountable Disclosures Of Law Enforcement Information, John Q. Barrett Jan 1999

The Leak And The Craft: A Hard Line Proposal To Stop Unaccountable Disclosures Of Law Enforcement Information, John Q. Barrett

Faculty Publications

The critics of Kenneth W. Starr accused him, in the five-plus years that he served as the multi-tasked Independent Counsel, of many failings, mistakes, and improprieties. One of the most prevalent charges was one that has significance to lawyers and resonates with the general public's sense of bad behavior by prosecutors: the allegation that Starr and/or members of his staff "leaked" information. This general accusation was, of course, imprecise. It also might have been overbroad. Prosecutorial "leaks" include such plain illegalities as disclosing grand jury information to the media or other unauthorized persons, and also the much less regulated practice …


Justice Blackmun's Mark On Criminal Law And Procedure, Kit Kinports Jan 1999

Justice Blackmun's Mark On Criminal Law And Procedure, Kit Kinports

Faculty Scholarship

When Justice Blackmun was nominated to the Court in 1970, Americans were consumed with the idea of crime control. In the 1968 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon had called the Supreme Court "soft on crime" and had promised to "put 'law and order' judges on the Court." While sitting on the Eighth Circuit, the Justice had "seldom struck down searches, seizures, arrests or confessions," and most of his opinions in criminal cases had "affirmed guilty verdicts and sentences." Thus, according to one commentator, Justice Blackmun seemed to be "exactly what Nixon was looking for: a judge who believed in judicial restraint, …


Victims' Rights: Rethinking Our "Adversary System", William T. Pizzi Jan 1999

Victims' Rights: Rethinking Our "Adversary System", William T. Pizzi

Publications

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Do The Adult Crime, Do The Adult Time: Due Process And Cruel And Unusual Implications For A 13-Year-Old Sex Offender Sentenced To Life Imprisonment In State V. Green, Paul G. Morrissey Jan 1999

Do The Adult Crime, Do The Adult Time: Due Process And Cruel And Unusual Implications For A 13-Year-Old Sex Offender Sentenced To Life Imprisonment In State V. Green, Paul G. Morrissey

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Constitutional Law - When Coerced Statements Lead To More Evidence: The Poisonous Tree Blooms Again In The Fifth Amendment, Quinten Bowman Jan 1999

Constitutional Law - When Coerced Statements Lead To More Evidence: The Poisonous Tree Blooms Again In The Fifth Amendment, Quinten Bowman

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Beyond The Independent Counsel: Evaluating The Options, Thomas W. Merrill Jan 1999

Beyond The Independent Counsel: Evaluating The Options, Thomas W. Merrill

Faculty Scholarship

The Independent Counsel Act expires on June 30, 1999. Should it be extended? Extended with modifications? Radically reformed? Or should it be allowed to sunset with nothing put in its place? To answer these questions, we need to address some more fundamental questions: (1) Do we truly need an independent office to investigate alleged wrongdoing by high-ranking officers of the executive branch? (2) If so, what are the options for the organizational structure of such an office? (3) By what criteria should the different institutional options be evaluated? (4) Under these criteria, which option represents the best, or perhaps more …


Disenfranchisement As Punishment: Reflections On The Racial Uses Of Infamia, George P. Fletcher Jan 1999

Disenfranchisement As Punishment: Reflections On The Racial Uses Of Infamia, George P. Fletcher

Faculty Scholarship

The practice of disenfranchising felons, though decreasing, is still widespread. In this Article, Professor George Fletcher reflects on the use of disenfranchisement as punishment, the lack of a convincing theoretical justification for it, and its disproportionate impact on the African.American community. Fletcher presents a number of powerful arguments against the constitutionality of the practice, but he emphasizes that there is a deeper problem with disenfranchisement as punishment: It reinforces the branding of felons as an "untouchable" class and thus helps to prevent their effective reintegration into our society.


The Ex Post Facto Clause And The Jurisprudence Of Punishment, Wayne A. Logan Jul 1998

The Ex Post Facto Clause And The Jurisprudence Of Punishment, Wayne A. Logan

Scholarly Publications

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Vigilantism Revisited: An Economic Analysis Of The Law Of Extra-Judicial Self-Help Or Why Can't Dick Shoot Henry For Stealing Jane's Truck? , Kelly D. Hine Jun 1998

Vigilantism Revisited: An Economic Analysis Of The Law Of Extra-Judicial Self-Help Or Why Can't Dick Shoot Henry For Stealing Jane's Truck? , Kelly D. Hine

American University Law Review

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After Legal Indeterminacy: Carl Schmitt And The National Socialist Legal Order, 1933-1936, William E. Scheuerman May 1998

After Legal Indeterminacy: Carl Schmitt And The National Socialist Legal Order, 1933-1936, William E. Scheuerman

Cardozo Law Review

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Private Bar Monitors Public Defense - Oversight Committee Sets Standards For Indigent Defense Providers, Adele Bernhard Apr 1998

Private Bar Monitors Public Defense - Oversight Committee Sets Standards For Indigent Defense Providers, Adele Bernhard

Articles & Chapters

The oversight committee drafted standards and guidelines with the primary goal of creating a yardstick for defense services organizations against which to measure performance and the hope that a practical set of standards serve multiple purposes, including: educating a skeptical public about what it takes to provide quality defense services; promoting an understanding of why adequate funding is necessary (to engender public support for more spending); and providing notice to the organizations themselves of what is expected of a publicly funded defense office.


The District Of Columbia Revitalization Act And Criminal Justice: The Federal Government's Assault On Local Authority, Jonathan M. Smith Mar 1998

The District Of Columbia Revitalization Act And Criminal Justice: The Federal Government's Assault On Local Authority, Jonathan M. Smith

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

The District of Columbia ("the District") enjoys a unique relationship with the federal government. As a matter of Constitutional pronouncement, citizens of the District are deprived of the right to ultimate control over the content of local laws. The Constitution provides that, "[t]he Congress shall have the power ... to exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States."2 Since the District's establishment in 1791, 3 Congress has not hesitated to exercise …


Process, The Constitution, And Substantive Criminal Law, Louis D. Bilionis Mar 1998

Process, The Constitution, And Substantive Criminal Law, Louis D. Bilionis

Michigan Law Review

Criminal law scholars have pined for a substantive constitutional criminal law ever since Henry Hart and Herbert Packer first embraced the notion in the late 1950s and early 1960s. To this day, scholars continue to search for a theory fhat giv:es content to, in Hart's words, "the unmistakable indications that the Constitution means something definite and spμiething serious when it speaks of 'crime.'" To their dismay, the Supreme Court has - with two exceptions - seemingly resisted the notion. The two exceptions are familiar. First came the 1957 case of Lambert v. California, in which the Court came as close …


Interpreting The Constitution From Inside The Jury Box: Affecting Interstate Commerce As An Element Of The Crime, Richard W. Smith Mar 1998

Interpreting The Constitution From Inside The Jury Box: Affecting Interstate Commerce As An Element Of The Crime, Richard W. Smith

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Florida's 1997 Chemical Castration Law: A Return To The Dark Ages, Larry Helm Spalding Jan 1998

Florida's 1997 Chemical Castration Law: A Return To The Dark Ages, Larry Helm Spalding

Florida State University Law Review

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Slamming The Prison Doors On Media Interviews: California's New Regulations Demonstrate The Need For A First Amendment Right To Access To Inmates, Daniel Bernstein Jan 1998

Slamming The Prison Doors On Media Interviews: California's New Regulations Demonstrate The Need For A First Amendment Right To Access To Inmates, Daniel Bernstein

McGeorge Law Review

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Off Broadway: The Supreme Court's Criminal Law Decisions In The 1996 Term Take Second Stage In An Historic Term, William E. Hellerstein Jan 1998

Off Broadway: The Supreme Court's Criminal Law Decisions In The 1996 Term Take Second Stage In An Historic Term, William E. Hellerstein

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Search And Seizure, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department: People V. Lafontaine Jan 1998

Search And Seizure, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department: People V. Lafontaine

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Self-Incrimination, Supreme Court, Suffolk County: People V. Shulman Jan 1998

Self-Incrimination, Supreme Court, Suffolk County: People V. Shulman

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Same-Sex Sexual Harassment After Oncale V. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.:Overcoming The History Of Judicial Discrimination In Light Of The "Common Sense" Standard, Jennifer J. Ator Jan 1998

Same-Sex Sexual Harassment After Oncale V. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.:Overcoming The History Of Judicial Discrimination In Light Of The "Common Sense" Standard, Jennifer J. Ator

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Extradition Law At The Crossroads: The Trend Toward Extending Greater Constitutional Procedural Protections To Fugitives Fighting Extradition From The United States, Lis Wiehl Jan 1998

Extradition Law At The Crossroads: The Trend Toward Extending Greater Constitutional Procedural Protections To Fugitives Fighting Extradition From The United States, Lis Wiehl

Michigan Journal of International Law

Part I of this article will describe the historical evolution of U.S. extradition law as a field parallel to, but separate from, domestic criminal procedure. Part II of this article describes the Parretti case and the Ninth Circuit's holding that the federal extradition statutory scheme of Title 18, United States Code, Section 3184, violates the Fourth Amendment to the extent that it authorizes the issuance of a provisional arrest warrant by a court without a prior evidentiary showing of probable cause to believe that the fugitive committed the crime charged abroad. Part III explores some of the implications and effects …


Does New York's Death Penalty Statute Violate The New York Constitution?, Honorable Stewart F. Hancock Jr., Christopher Quinn, Richard Klein Jan 1998

Does New York's Death Penalty Statute Violate The New York Constitution?, Honorable Stewart F. Hancock Jr., Christopher Quinn, Richard Klein

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Welcome To Anytown, U.S.A. - Home Of Beautiful Scenery (And A Convicted Sex Offender): Sex Offender Registration And Notification Laws In E.B. V. Verniero, David S. Dematteo Jan 1998

Welcome To Anytown, U.S.A. - Home Of Beautiful Scenery (And A Convicted Sex Offender): Sex Offender Registration And Notification Laws In E.B. V. Verniero, David S. Dematteo

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Prosecutorial Misconduct In Closing Argument In Arkansas Criminal Trials, J. Thomas Sullivan Jan 1998

Prosecutorial Misconduct In Closing Argument In Arkansas Criminal Trials, J. Thomas Sullivan

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.