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2010

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Coercing Voluntariness, Wadie E. Said Jan 2010

Coercing Voluntariness, Wadie E. Said

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The Terrorist Informant, Wadie E. Said Jan 2010

The Terrorist Informant, Wadie E. Said

Publications

A man sets himself on fire in front of the White House in a dispute with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He has been working as an informant for the FBI in a high-profile terrorism prosecution and is unhappy with the $100,000 he has been paid so far. He has also been recently convicted of bank fraud. As a result, the government declines to call him as a witness, given the damage his actions have on his credibility and trustworthiness. This incident underscores the difficulty inherent in relying on paid informants to drive a prosecution, where material considerations such …


A Look At Human Trafficking With Professor Kathleen C. Kim, Karen Skinner Jan 2010

A Look At Human Trafficking With Professor Kathleen C. Kim, Karen Skinner

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Reconceptualizing Restorative Justice, Kate Bloch Jan 2010

Reconceptualizing Restorative Justice, Kate Bloch

Faculty Scholarship

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The Geography Of Criminal Law, Adam Benforado Jan 2010

The Geography Of Criminal Law, Adam Benforado

Cardozo Law Review

When Westerners explain the causes of actions or outcomes in the criminal law context, they demonstrate a strong tendency to overestimate the importance of dispositional factors, like thinking, preferring, and willing, and underestimate the impact of interior and exterior situational factors, including environmental, historical, and social forces, as well as affective states, knowledge structures, motives, and other unseen aspects of our cognitive frameworks and processes. One of the situational factors that we are particularly likely to overlook is physical space - that is, landscapes, places, natures, boundaries, and spatialities. Our shortsightedness comes at a great cost. Spatial concerns shape legal …


Policymaking By The Japanese Judiciary In The Criminal Justice Field, Daniel H. Foote Jan 2010

Policymaking By The Japanese Judiciary In The Criminal Justice Field, Daniel H. Foote

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When one speaks of policymaking by the judiciary, the image that often comes to tnind is the U.S. judiciary, especially the Supreme Court of the United States. That reaction is understandable. Examples abound of policymaking by courts in the United States; and a seemingly never-ending stream of books and articles discuss, analyze, and, depending on the authors'point of view, praise or decry "policymaking" or "judicial activism" by U.S. courts. The field of criminal justice frequently is offered as a prominent example of judicial policymaking in the United States. Expansion in due process protections and other rights for criminal suspects and …


A Post-Race Equal Protection?, Mario L. Barnes, Erwin Chemerinsky, Trina Jones Jan 2010

A Post-Race Equal Protection?, Mario L. Barnes, Erwin Chemerinsky, Trina Jones

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