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Everyone Knows Medellin; Has Anyone Heard Of O'Brien? Reconciling The United States And The International Community By Amending The Vccr, 43 J. Marshall L. Rev. 817 (2010), Steven M. Novak Jan 2010

Everyone Knows Medellin; Has Anyone Heard Of O'Brien? Reconciling The United States And The International Community By Amending The Vccr, 43 J. Marshall L. Rev. 817 (2010), Steven M. Novak

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Hobbs Act Through The Rivera-Rivera Looking Glass: A Mere Intrusion Upon Basic Fundamental Federalism Principles?, 44 J. Marshall L. Rev. 237 (2010), Patrick Goodwin Jan 2010

The Hobbs Act Through The Rivera-Rivera Looking Glass: A Mere Intrusion Upon Basic Fundamental Federalism Principles?, 44 J. Marshall L. Rev. 237 (2010), Patrick Goodwin

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Excitement Of Interdictory Ideas: A Response To Professor Anders Walker, Marc O. Degirolami Jan 2010

The Excitement Of Interdictory Ideas: A Response To Professor Anders Walker, Marc O. Degirolami

Scholarly Articles

Having canvassed admirably the historical changes to the criminal law case book over the twentieth century, Professor Anders Walker's article suggests that criminal law ought to concern itself with the business of training future prosecutors and defense attorneys by eliminating, or at least greatly reducing, the place of moral and political reflection in the course, which was in any event the supercilious indulgence of elite law schools that disprized criminal practice. His normative prescriptions are of a piece with much that is currently in vogue in criticisms of legal education: that it is impractical, that it does not respond to …


Sexting Or Self-Produced Child Pornography – The Dialogue Continues – Structured Prosecutorial Discretion Within A Multidisciplinary Response, Mary Graw Leary Jan 2010

Sexting Or Self-Produced Child Pornography – The Dialogue Continues – Structured Prosecutorial Discretion Within A Multidisciplinary Response, Mary Graw Leary

Scholarly Articles

One need only read the newspaper to see a rising dangerous phenomenon among juveniles: the creation and subsequent sharing via the Internet of sexually explicit photographs. This self exploitation is not only a tragic social problem, but a growing legal one as well. Judges, attorneys, and legislators, are forced to address this activity because, in addition to being self destructive, it is also a violation of state and federal child pornography laws. Juvenile self exploitation illustrates a clash of two lines of jurisprudence and public policy: the aggressive opposition to child pornography and the more lenient rehabilitative treatment of juvenile …


An Examination Of The Philippines' Anti-Terror Law—Suaviter In Modo, Fortiter In Re, Brent H. Lyew Jan 2010

An Examination Of The Philippines' Anti-Terror Law—Suaviter In Modo, Fortiter In Re, Brent H. Lyew

Washington International Law Journal

The Philippines is rife with competing struggles for rights of self-determination and international terrorist networks. For years, the Philippine government prosecuted suspected terrorists without an anti-terror law. The absence of an express criminal violation for acts of terrorism led to a blurred distinction between punishing terrorists and punishing secessionists. Responding to public outcry that the Philippine government was violating human rights by punishing secessionists unjustly, the United Nations conducted an investigation. This investigation led to the placement of the Philippine government on the United Nations’ human rights watch list. The Philippine legislature, shortly thereafter, passed the Human Security Act of …


Updates From The International And Internationalized Criminal Courts, Ivan Carpio, Lindsay Roberts, Zsofia Young, Christopher Tansey, Paul Rinefierd, Slava Kuperstein Jan 2010

Updates From The International And Internationalized Criminal Courts, Ivan Carpio, Lindsay Roberts, Zsofia Young, Christopher Tansey, Paul Rinefierd, Slava Kuperstein

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Debacle: How The Supreme Court Has Mangled American Sentencing Law And How It Might Yet Be Mended, Frank O. Bowman Iii Jan 2010

Debacle: How The Supreme Court Has Mangled American Sentencing Law And How It Might Yet Be Mended, Frank O. Bowman Iii

Faculty Publications

This Article argues that the line of Supreme Court Sixth Amendment jury right cases that began with McMillan v. Pennsylvania in 1986, crescendoed in Blakely v. Washington and United States v. Booker in 2004-2005, and continued in 2009 in cases such as Oregon v. Ice, has been a colossal judicial failure. First, the Court has failed to provide a logically coherent, constitutionally based answer to the fundamental question of what limits the Constitution places on the roles played by the institutional actors in the criminal justice system. It failed to recognize that defining, adjudicating and punishing crimes implicates both the …


Rereading Rauscher Is It Time For The United States To Abandon The Rule Of Specialty, Mark A. Summers Jan 2010

Rereading Rauscher Is It Time For The United States To Abandon The Rule Of Specialty, Mark A. Summers

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Introduction To Symposium: The Future Of The Exclusionary Rule And The Aftereffects Of The Herring And Hudson Decisions, Barry Kamins Jan 2010

Introduction To Symposium: The Future Of The Exclusionary Rule And The Aftereffects Of The Herring And Hudson Decisions, Barry Kamins

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article is an introduction the symposium, "The Future of the Exclusionary Rule and the Aftereffects of the Herring and Hudson Decisions," hosted by the Fordham Urban Law Journal. The symposium explored the effects of the Supreme Court’s decisions in Herring v. United States and Hudson v. Michigan—what the Supreme Court will do with the Rule in the future, as well as varying interpretations of what the Supreme Court should do. The federal exclusionary rule, which is approaching its 100th anniversary, was extended to the states almost fifty years ago by the Supreme Court in its landmark decision of Mapp …


Instrumentalizing Jurors: An Argument Against The Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule, Todd E. Pettys Jan 2010

Instrumentalizing Jurors: An Argument Against The Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule, Todd E. Pettys

Fordham Urban Law Journal

In this symposium contribution, I contend that the application of the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule in cases tried by juries raises troubling moral issues that are not present when a judge adjudicates a case on his or her own. Specifically, I argue that the exclusionary rule infringes upon jurors’ deliberative autonomy by depriving them of available evidence that rationally bears upon their verdict and by instrumentalizing them in service to the Court’s deterrence objectives. After considering ways in which those moral problems could be at least partially mitigated, I contend that the best approach might be to abandon the exclusionary …


Moving Targets: Placing The Good Faith Doctrine In The Context Of Fragmented Policing, Hadar Aviram, Jeremy Seymour, Richard A. Leo Jan 2010

Moving Targets: Placing The Good Faith Doctrine In The Context Of Fragmented Policing, Hadar Aviram, Jeremy Seymour, Richard A. Leo

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The debate sparked by Herring v. United States is a microcosm of the quintessential debate about the scope of the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule and ultimately the appropriate breadth of police authority and constitutional review by courts. Offering a new reading of the decision, this article argues that Herring reflects a healthy dosage of real politic and an acknowledgment that American policing is characterized by a fragmented, localized structure with little overview and control, and much reliance on local agencies. Part I presents the authors’ interpretation of Herring as a case hinging upon the question “who made the mistake?” as …


Databases, Doctrine, And Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Erin Murphy Jan 2010

Databases, Doctrine, And Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Erin Murphy

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Over the past twenty years there has been an explosion in the creation, availability, and use of criminal justice databases. Large scale database systems now routinely influence law enforcement decisions ranging from formal determinations to arrest or convict an individual to informal judgments to subject a person to secondary pre-flight screening or investigate possible gang membership. Evidence gathered from database-related sources is now commonly introduced, and can play a pivotal proof role, in criminal trials. Although much has been written about the failure of constitutional law to adequately respond to the threat to privacy rights posed by databases, less attention …


Limiting Death: Maryland’S New Death Penalty Law, Michael Millemann Jan 2010

Limiting Death: Maryland’S New Death Penalty Law, Michael Millemann

Maryland Law Review

In this Article, I describe and analyze the State of Maryland's 2009 death penalty law. This law adds three new death-eligibility criteria to the pre-existing law. These new evidentiary criteria supplement the pre-existing substantive death-eligibility criteria. As a result, Maryland now has one of the most restrictive death penalties in the country.


Redemption Song: Graham V. Florida And The Evolving Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence, Robert Smith, G. Ben Choen Jan 2010

Redemption Song: Graham V. Florida And The Evolving Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence, Robert Smith, G. Ben Choen

Michigan Law Review First Impressions

In Graham v. Florida, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits a sentence of life without parole ("LWOP") for a juvenile under eighteen who commits a non-homicide offense. For Terrance Graham, who committed home-invasion robbery at seventeen, the decision does not mean necessarily that he someday will leave the brick walls of Florida's Taylor Annex Correctional Institution. Unlike previous Eighth Amendment decisions, such as Roper v. Simmons, where the Court barred the death penalty for juveniles, this new categorical rule does not translate into automatic relief for members of the exempted class: "A State need not guarantee the …


A Call For Judicial Scrutiny: How Increased Judicial Discretion Has Led To Disparity And Unpredictability In Federal Sentencings For Child Pornography, Loren Rigsby Jan 2010

A Call For Judicial Scrutiny: How Increased Judicial Discretion Has Led To Disparity And Unpredictability In Federal Sentencings For Child Pornography, Loren Rigsby

Seattle University Law Review

The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) has made child pornography related crimes among the most harshly punishable federal offenses. Nevertheless, sentencing judges have regained the right to depart from the recommended Federal Sentencing Guidelines (Guidelines). The Guideline range for child pornography reflects sound and clear congressional intent to impose harsh penalties on defendants to deter, and ultimately eliminate, the market for child pornography. For this reason, this Comment argues that sentences that fall outside the Guidelines range should be reviewed with much greater scrutiny and should not be used solely to reflect a judge’s view that the advised sentence is …


An Honest Services Debate, Sara Sun Beale Jan 2010

An Honest Services Debate, Sara Sun Beale

Faculty Scholarship

This commentary employs a fictional debate to explore the issues raised by the Supreme Court’s decision in Skilling v. United States, 130 S. Ct. 2896 (2010), which dramatically cut back on “honest services” prosecutions under the mail and wire fraud statutes. In response to an earlier decision by the Supreme Court reading these statutes narrowly, Congress enacted 18 U.S.C. § 1346, which extends mail and wire fraud to schemes to deprive another of “the intangible right of honest services.” In 2009 the Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases presenting questions concerning the “honest services” provision. One of the cases …


Enforcing International Corrupt Practices Law, Paul D. Carrington Jan 2010

Enforcing International Corrupt Practices Law, Paul D. Carrington

Faculty Scholarship

This Essay strives to advance the current international movement to
deter the transnational corrupt practices that have long burdened the global economy and weakened governments, especially in “developing” nations. Laws made in the last decade to address this longstanding global problem have not been effectively enforced. Described here are the moderately successful efforts in the United States since 1862 to reward private citizens serving as enforcers of laws prohibiting corrupt practices. It is suggested that this American experience might be adapted by international organizations to enhance enforcement of the new public international laws.


International Movement To Deter Corruption: Should China Join?, Paul D. Carrington Jan 2010

International Movement To Deter Corruption: Should China Join?, Paul D. Carrington

Faculty Scholarship

Global concerns over the corruption of weak governments by firms engaged in transnational business are the source of an international movement that emerged in 1997. Special concern is presently directed at the weakness of enforcement of laws enacted in recent times to deter corrupt business practices in international trade that were enacted in response to that movement. One cause of weakness in law enforcement is the failure of China to share actively in those concerns and the efforts to address them. This essay will briefly record steps taken in other nations to address the concerns and the limited effectiveness of …


What Are We Doing To The Children?: An Essay On Juvenile (In)Justice, Michael E. Tigar Jan 2010

What Are We Doing To The Children?: An Essay On Juvenile (In)Justice, Michael E. Tigar

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Should Using Facebook At Work Be A Federal Crime: The Third Circuit Applies Honest Services Fraud To Private Individuals In United States V. Mcgeehan, Derek Hines Jan 2010

Should Using Facebook At Work Be A Federal Crime: The Third Circuit Applies Honest Services Fraud To Private Individuals In United States V. Mcgeehan, Derek Hines

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


The Domestication Of International Criminal Law: A Proposal For Expanding The International Criminal Court's Sphere Of Influence, 43 J. Marshall L. Rev. 635 (2010), Lisa J. Laplante Jan 2010

The Domestication Of International Criminal Law: A Proposal For Expanding The International Criminal Court's Sphere Of Influence, 43 J. Marshall L. Rev. 635 (2010), Lisa J. Laplante

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


How Far Can The Automobile Exception Go? How Searches Of Computers And Similar Devices Push It To The Limit, 43 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1119 (2010), Andrew Wrona Jan 2010

How Far Can The Automobile Exception Go? How Searches Of Computers And Similar Devices Push It To The Limit, 43 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1119 (2010), Andrew Wrona

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Concurrent Jurisdiction And Primacy. What Do The Concepts Of “Concurrent Jurisdiction” And “Primacy” Mean Concretely For The Stl And The Lebanese National Courts? ..., Helena Traner Jan 2010

Concurrent Jurisdiction And Primacy. What Do The Concepts Of “Concurrent Jurisdiction” And “Primacy” Mean Concretely For The Stl And The Lebanese National Courts? ..., Helena Traner

War Crimes Memoranda

Concurrent Jurisdiction and Primacy. What do the concepts of “concurrent jurisdiction” and “primacy” mean concretely for the STL and the Lebanese national courts? What are the effects on the STL and Lebanese authorities of the deferral of the Hariri case


Was Forced Marriage A Crime Against Humanity Under Customary International Law In 1975?, Allyson Justine Montgomery Jan 2010

Was Forced Marriage A Crime Against Humanity Under Customary International Law In 1975?, Allyson Justine Montgomery

War Crimes Memoranda

No abstract provided.


Customary International Law Status Of The Enumerated Crimes Of Article 5 Of The Extraordinary Chambers In The Courts Of Cambodia Law And Whether They Are Prosecutable, Andrew Bader Jan 2010

Customary International Law Status Of The Enumerated Crimes Of Article 5 Of The Extraordinary Chambers In The Courts Of Cambodia Law And Whether They Are Prosecutable, Andrew Bader

War Crimes Memoranda

No abstract provided.


Does Terrorism Constitute A Crime Under International Law And, If So, What Is Its Definition. Specifically Addressing The Argument That A Limited Definition Of Terrorism Has Emerged In Customary International Law That Provides For International Criminal Liability For Individual Non-State Actors., Avrum Jacobson Jan 2010

Does Terrorism Constitute A Crime Under International Law And, If So, What Is Its Definition. Specifically Addressing The Argument That A Limited Definition Of Terrorism Has Emerged In Customary International Law That Provides For International Criminal Liability For Individual Non-State Actors., Avrum Jacobson

War Crimes Memoranda

No abstract provided.


Under What Conditions Would The Involvement Of A Judge In The Adoption Of A Piece Of Legislation Warrant His Recusal (Or Removal) From The Bench On Grounds Of Lack Of Impartiality Or Appearance Thereof?, Brandon J. Wheeler Jan 2010

Under What Conditions Would The Involvement Of A Judge In The Adoption Of A Piece Of Legislation Warrant His Recusal (Or Removal) From The Bench On Grounds Of Lack Of Impartiality Or Appearance Thereof?, Brandon J. Wheeler

War Crimes Memoranda

No abstract provided.


Accused’S Right To Document Translation..., John K. Sawyer Jan 2010

Accused’S Right To Document Translation..., John K. Sawyer

War Crimes Memoranda

Specifically addressing what the rights are of the accused to the translation of documents (in his or her own language and/or in the language of his or her counsel) and the concomitant obligations of the parties. Also, the issues were examined with reference to the 20 February 2009 Pre-Trial Chamber decision in Khieu Samphan’s appeal.


Appeal Based On Inadequate Representation, Ugochi Madubata Jan 2010

Appeal Based On Inadequate Representation, Ugochi Madubata

War Crimes Memoranda

No abstract provided.


Chapeau Elements Of Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes Against Humanity And Chapeau Elements, R. Garrison Mason Jr. Jan 2010

Chapeau Elements Of Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes Against Humanity And Chapeau Elements, R. Garrison Mason Jr.

War Crimes Memoranda

No abstract provided.