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Getting A Break From Forever: Chapter 828 Provides An Opportunity For Juveniles Sentenced To Life Without Parole To Get Their Lives Back, Roman Edwards

McGeorge Law Review

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Meaningless Opportunities: Graham V. Florida And The Reality Of De Facto Lwop Sentences, Mark T. Freeman

McGeorge Law Review

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The Evolution Of Justice Kennedy’S Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence On Categorical Bars In Capital Cases, Linda E. Carter

McGeorge Law Review

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Confession For The Soul?: A Defense Lawyer's Moral Advice To A Guilty Client, Jeffrey Kirchmeier

Publications and Research

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16 Things Every Defense Attorney Should Know About Fair Cross-Section Challenges, Nina Chernoff, Joseph B. Kadane

Publications and Research

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Gideon: Looking Backward, Looking Forward, Looking In The Mirror, Steven Zeidman

Publications and Research

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Plea Bargains That Waive Claims Of Ineffective Assistance - Waiving Padilla And Frye, Nancy J. King

Duquesne Law Review

In a criminal justice system where procedural rights are freely traded for sentencing and charging concessions, each heralded decision of the Supreme Court enforcing or expanding a right of the accused produces yet another bargaining chip for the defense. As rights expand, so do waivers of the opportunity to enforce those rights on review. As one court stated, the government "enters into plea agreements to avoid costly litigation, not to postpone it." It was, then, unsurprising when, amid the accolades for the Court's decisions in Missouri v. Frye and Lafler v. Cooper, one exprosecutor suggested that defendants should have …

Lafler And Frye: Two Small Band-Aids For A Festering Wound, Albert W. Alschuler

Duquesne Law Review

Imagine that you are on death row, and imagine that the incompetence of your lawyer has put you there. A witness at your trial testified that you waited at the wheel of a getaway car while two accomplices robbed a liquor store and one of them shot and killed the clerk. Shortly after your arrest, the prosecutor offered to permit you and your co-defendants to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter and armed robbery. This offer would have limited your sentence to 25 years. Your co-defendants, including the alleged triggerman, accepted the offer. You would have accepted the offer too if …

Only Fools Who Send Hyenas To Roast Meat For Them: In Search Of The Doctrinal Foundations Of The Not-So-Ordinary Crime Of Patrimonicide, Ndiva Kofele-Kale

Florida A & M University Law Review

Crimes against humanity are generally considered crimes of such unimaginable horror that they shock the conscience of mankind. The Article challenges the international community to take a mental leap by recognizing that the contemporary version of official corruption is so fundamentally different from its historical antecedents that it deserves to (a) be called a different name: indigenous spoliation or patrimonicide; and (b), to be treated as an extraordinary crime that rises up to the level of a crime against humanity. Towards this end, the Article reviews the basic elements of a crime against humanity identified in various legal instruments, and …

Removing The Presumption Of Innocence: A Constitutional Analysis Of The Ogden Trece Gang Injunction, Megan K. Baker

Utah OnLaw: The Utah Law Review Online Supplement

Gang activity poses a substantial problem in many communities. The city of Ogden, Utah, is home to many gangs, and law enforcement is constantly looking for a way to decrease gang violence. In an attempt to reduce gang violence in Ogden, Judge Ernie Jones issued the Ogden Trece gang injunction on September 27, 2010, in Weber County, Utah. The injunction, based on several similar injunctions in California, affects hundreds of alleged Ogden Trece gang members and spans an area including virtually the entire city of Ogden. The injunction prohibits those enjoined from engaging in various illegal activities as well as …

Beginning To Seize The Instrumentalities Of Human Trafficking: Chapter 514 Allows Criminal Forfeiture Of Property Used To Facilitate The Sex Trafficking Of Minors, Scott Davidson Dyle

McGeorge Law Review

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Chapter 515: Combating Human Trafficking By Enhancing Awareness Through Public Postings, Scott Davidson Dyle

McGeorge Law Review

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The Carrot And The Stick: Tailoring California’S Unlawful Marijuana Cultivation Statute To Address California’S Problems, Hunter E. Starr

McGeorge Law Review

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Bargaining Practices: Negotiating The Kampala Compromise For The International Criminal Court, Noah Weisbord

Faculty Publications

At the International Criminal Court's (ICC) Review Conference in 2010, the ICC's Assembly of States Parties (ASP) agreed upon a definition of the crime of aggression, jurisdictional conditions, and a mechanism for its entry into force (the "Kampala Compromise"). These amendments give the ICC jurisdiction to prosecute political and military leaders of states for planning, preparing, initiating, or executing illegal wars, beginning as early as January 2017.

This article explains the bargaining practices of the diplomats that gave rise to this historic development in international law. This article argues that the international-practices framework, as currently conceived, does not adequately capture …

The Mens Rea Of The Crime Of Aggression, Noah Weisbord

Faculty Publications

This article, written in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the International Criminal Court (ICC), explores the mens rea of the crime of aggression. The definition and jurisdictional conditions of the crime of aggression was recently incorporated into the ICC’s Rome Statute, thereby reviving a crime used during the Nuremberg trials to prosecute Nazi leaders after World War II. Mens rea is an important, even central, consideration when judging whether a defendant has satisfied all of the elements of the crime of aggression.

The starting point for this exploration of the mens rea of the crime of aggression is its …

Does Living By The Sword Mean Dying By The Sword?, Charles Chernor Jalloh

Faculty Publications

What do serial killer Ted Bundy, 9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and alleged “Butcher of the Balkans” Slobodan Milošević have in common? Besides being accused of perpetrating some of the worst crimes known to law, they each insisted on representing themselves in court without the assistance of a lawyer. Not surprisingly, Bundy and Moussaoui were convicted. And although Milošević died just before trial judgment was rendered, it is widely speculated that he too would have been convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. This article examines the right to self-representation in international criminal law. Using a comparative law …

Prosecuting Those Bearing 'Greatest Responsibility': The Lessons Of The Special Court For Sierra Leone, Charles Chernor Jalloh

Faculty Publications

This Article examines the controversial article 1(1) of the Statute of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) giving that tribunal the competence “to prosecute those who bear the greatest responsibility” for serious international and domestic crimes committed during the latter part of the notoriously brutal Sierra Leonean conflict. The debate that arose during the SCSL trials was whether this bare statement constituted a jurisdictional requirement that the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt or merely a type of guideline for the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. The judges of the court split on the issue. This paper is the …

Sex Trafficking Of Minors In The United States: State Legislative Response Models, Elizabeth Lamura

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Considering Child Trauma Issues In Juvenile Court Sentencing, Gene Griffin, Sarah Sallen

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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A Letter To Congress: The Communications Decency Act Promotes Human Trafficking, Abigail Kuzma

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Statistically Speaking: Distinguishing Misinformation From Effective Intervention In The Court System’S Treatment Of Ptsd-Affected Juvenile Sex Offenders, Kathryn Huber

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Spotlight On: How The Internet Facilitates Underage Victimization In Human Trafficking, Victoria Vanderschaaf

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Legislative Update: A Look At Juvenile Life Without Parole Post-Miller, Kelcy Whitaker

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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The Evolution Of Justice Kennedy’S Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence On Categorical Bars In Capital Cases, Linda Carter

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Chinese Homicide Law, Irrationality, And Incremental Change, Cary Bricker, Michael Vitiello

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Florence V. Board Of Chosen Freeholders: Police Power Takes A More Intrusive Turn, Wayne A. Logan

Scholarly Publications

This essay discusses the Supreme Court’s 2012 decision in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders allowing strip searches of minor offense arrestees without any suspicion that they possess a weapon or contraband. After summarizing the Court’s holding, the essay explores how Florence builds upon prior caselaw affording police virtually unlimited discretionary authority to execute warrantless arrests, and the unlikelihood that institutional limits will be placed on the strip search authority of corrections officials.

Florence V. Board Of Chosen Freeholders: Maintaining Jail Security While Stripping Detainees Of Their Constitutional Rights, Nina Gleiberman

Maryland Law Review Online

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Process For The Dispossessed: Procedural Rights From Magna Carta To Modern International Law, Mark A. Drumbl

Scholarly Articles

Due process matters greatly to distinguished philosopher Larry May, who advocates for a vigourous assertion of procedural rights as constituting an international rule of law. He undertakes this ambitious, a la fois aspirational, task in Global Justice and Due Process.

The Right To Plea Bargain With Competent Counsel After Cooper And Frye: Is The Supreme Court Making The Ordinary Criminal Process "Too Long, Too Expensive, And Unpredictable . . . In Pursuit Of Perfect Justice"?, Bruce A. Green

Duquesne Law Review

"[T]oo long, too expensive, and unpredictable." That is how Justice Scalia described "the ordinary criminal process" in a dissenting opinion joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Thomas. Justice Scalia blamed the length, cost, and unpredictability of criminal proceedings not on the intrinsic nature of adjudication but on the constitutional jurisprudence underlying the criminal process, which he depicted as unnecessarily intricate and unduly burdensome. One might infer, given their understanding, that these Justices will not only interpret constitutional provisions narrowly in criminal cases but, given the chance, will trim back constitutional protections that they believe earlier decisions benightedly …

Changing Tides: An Adaptable Prosecution Approach To Piracy’S Shifting Problem, Jessica Piquet

National Security Law Program

Although piracy off the coast of Somalia has captured worldwide attention, attacks in this region are decreasing while other regions are experiencing increases in pirate activity. This Note expands upon prior research into prosecution models for combatting piracy off the coast of Somalia to determine the adaptability and sustainability of these methods as applied to piracy in other regions. In examining the three most common prosecution models currently used and proposed (prosecution by domestic courts in regional states, prosecution by the capturing state or by a state with a significant nexus to the attack, and prosecution by a specialized piracy …