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Implications Of The Unclos Definition Of Piracy On Seychelles Prosecutions Specifically Addressing The Incorporation Of The Definition Of Piracy In Article 101 Of Unclos And The Implications For Seychelles Piracy Prosecutions, Randall Christopher Bray

War Crimes Memoranda

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Understanding Jurors’ Judgments In Cases Involving Juvenile Defendants: Effects Of Confession Evidence And Intellectual Disability, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Bette L. Bottoms

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

Juveniles are at heightened risk for falsely confessing to crimes, particularly if they are intellectually disabled. We conducted a mock trial experiment to investigate the effects of a juvenile defendant’s confession and status as intellectually disabled on jurors’ decision making. As expected, jurors discounted a juvenile’s coerced confession: Jurors’ judgments were similar for a juvenile who was perceived to have confessed under coercion and a juvenile who did not confess. In general, these effects were explained by the fact that, compared to a juvenile who was perceived as having confessed voluntarily, a juvenile who was perceived as having confessed under …

Every High Has A Low: A Pragmatic Approach To The War On Drugs, Mark Garibyan

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Caveat

One of the lasting vestiges of Richard Nixon’s presidency is the infamous “War on Drugs,” a forty-year-old effort aimed at curtailing “illicit drug consumption and transactions in America.” Although the goal behind the policy—a reduction in the rate of substance abuse—may be altruistic, the War on Drugs has dismally failed to achieve its goals and has exacerbated existing problems. Specifically, laws dealing with crack cocaine result in a “heavily disproportionate impact on black defendants;” in 2008 “blacks comprised 79.8 percent of those convicted for crack cocaine-related offenses,” whereas “whites comprised only 10.4 percent.” More generally, these laws illustrate a fundamental …

The Death Penalty And The Mentally Ill: A Selected And Annotated Bibliography, Jean Mattimoe

Articles

The United States Supreme Court over the last decade has selectively whittled away at the scope and availability of the death penalty by exempting certain groups from execution under the Eighth Amendment. In 2002 the court ruled that executing mentally retarded criminals violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. In 2005 the court ruled that the Constitution forbids the execution of individuals who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes. Currently there is an active debate on whether to extend the categorical exemptions created by the Court to the mentally ill. At the forefront …

Criminal Child Neglect And The Free Range Kid: Is Overprotective Parenting The New Standard Of Care?, David Pimentel

Articles

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Confronting The Invisible Witness: The Use Of Narrative To Neutralize Capital Jurors’ Implicit Racial Biases, Pamela A. Wilkins

Articles

How can capital defense lawyers craft narratives that neutralize jurors’ unconscious racial and ethnic biases? A well-developed body of research in cognitive psychology indicates that despite even the best of intentions and the absence of conscious prejudice, most Americans harbor unconscious biases against African Americans. These biases influence what we actually perceive, how we interpret what we perceive, and how we act. For reasons related to the content and structure of capital sentencing trials, these unconscious biases are particularly likely to influence capital jurors. In effect, unconscious racial bias acts as an invisible witness against the African American defendant, buttressing …

Prosecutors And Bargaining In Weak Cases: A Comparative View, Jenia I. Turner

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

One of the most controversial uses of prosecutorial discretion in plea bargaining concerns cases involving weak evidence of guilt. When a prosecutor bargains about the charges or even the facts in a case with weak evidence, at least three problems may arise. First, if the charge bargain is generous, it may coerce an innocent defendant to plead guilty. Second, such a bargain may let a guilty defendant off too easily, thus disserving the public and victim’s interests. Third, if the parties bargain about the facts, the result may distort the truth of the case.

In this book chapter, I examine …

Africa And The International Criminal Court, Charles C. Jalloh

Articles

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Book Review, Samuel W. Buell

Faculty Scholarship

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Twenty-First Century Fingerprints: The Third Circuit's Approval Of Dna Collection Upon Arrest In United States V. Mitchell, Megan Pownall

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Legal Memorandum On Reintegration Of Former Pirates, Pilpg

War Crimes Memoranda

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Manson And Its Progeny: An Empirical Analysis Of American Eyewitness Law, Nicholas A. Kahn-Fogel

Faculty Scholarly Works

Since the Supreme Court established the current constitutional framework for determining the admissibility of eyewitness identification evidence in Manson v. Brathwaite in 1977, scientists and scholars who have evaluated the opinion have uniformly criticized it as insufficient to deter police from using flawed identification procedures and inconsistent with scientific evidence of the best ways to assess the reliability of evidence tainted by such procedures. Until now, however, the work of these scientists and scholars has been based primarily on simulation experiments and on a selective assortment of easily criticized judicial decisions applying Manson. This study provides the first systematic analysis …

Criminal Sentencing Under The Advisory Guidelines And The Ex Post Facto Clause, 45 J. Marshall L. Rev. 435 (2012), Megan Preusker

UIC Law Review

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Protecting Tax Payers And Crime Victims: The Case For Restricting Utah's Preliminary Hearings To Felony Offenses, Paul G. Cassell, Thomas E. Goodwin

Utah OnLaw: The Utah Law Review Online Supplement

Requiring preliminary hearings for Class A misdemeanors is undesirable for two simple reasons. First, the court’s decision will result in hundreds of additional preliminary hearings a year, thus imposing substantial costs on taxpayers and burdens on an already overwhelmed criminal justice system. Second, the decision will create substantial hardships for crime victims, who will now be twice subjected to cross-examination by defense attorneys—once at the preliminary hearing and again later at trial. And these costs will generate no significant benefit in return.

What Types Of Evidence Are Used To Prove A Joint Criminal Enterprise Under International Criminal Law?, Katlyn Kraus

War Crimes Memoranda

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Recruitment And Use Of Children As An Act Of Piracy, Aalia Maan

War Crimes Memoranda

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The Speedy Trial Rights Of Suspected Pirate Detainees, Aleksandar Sava Rakic

War Crimes Memoranda

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Provide A Comparative Analysis Of The Proposed United Nations Extraterritorial Piracy Court And The Lockerbie Tribunal, Baker & Mckenzie Llp

War Crimes Memoranda

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How May The Seychelles Penal Code Be Amended To Support The Prosecution Of Financiers Of Piracy Who Reside Outside The Seychelles, And What Issues Arise Concerning The Extradition Of Non-National Suspects Into The Seychelles For Prosecution?, Jones Day

War Crimes Memoranda

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Recruitment And Use Of Child Pirates As Crimes Against Humanity, Maura Finn

War Crimes Memoranda

advised/reviewed by Laurie Blank

The Applicability Of National Anti-Terrorism Laws To Piracy: A Comparative Analysis Of Japan, The Philippines, And Singapore, Nina Tantraphol, Frederick Michael Lorenz

War Crimes Memoranda

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Applying The Lockerbie Model To A Proposed Extraterritorial Somali Anti-Piracy Court, Pilpg

War Crimes Memoranda

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Analyzing Sources Of Extradition For Pirates To Seychelles, Ramnik Samrao

War Crimes Memoranda

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Ability Of Trial Chamber And Pre-Trial Chamber To Use Different Legal Characterizations, Ugochi Madubata

War Crimes Memoranda

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Can The Seychelles Criminalize Possession Of Piratical Equipment, And Apply It To Foreign Nationals Found Outside Of The Seychelles Under Either Universal Or Protective Jurisdiction?, Vijyalakshmi Patel

War Crimes Memoranda

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The Law And Economics Of Fluctuating Criminal Tendencies And Incapacitation, Murat C. Mungan

Scholarly Publications

Economic analyses of criminal law are frequently and heavily criticized for being unable to explain many criminal law rules and doctrines people find intuitively just. Existing economic models cannot properly explain, for instance, why criminal law distinguishes between (1) repeat offenders and first-time offenders, (2) murder and voluntary manslaughter, and (3) remorseful and non-remorseful offenders.

This Article proposes a richer economic theory of crime that captures the rationales behind these practices and potentially behind many other important criminal law principles and doctrines. Unlike an overwhelming majority of previous economic analyses, my theory accounts not only for the deterrent effect of …

The Quarles Public Safety Exception In Terrorism Cases. Reviving The Marshall Dissent, Elizabeth Nielsen

American University Criminal Law Brief

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Mass Murderers Discover Mass Murder: The Germans And Katyn, 1943, Kenneth F. Ledford

Faculty Publications

After the German army in 1943 discovered the graves of murdered Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest, Joseph Goebbels embarked upon a cynical publicity campaign to spread before the world the perils of Bolshevik success. But the Nazi discovery of Soviet crimes against leaders of Polish state and society elided the reality that from the very beginning of the German invasion of Poland, the SS had carried out identical mass murders of Polish intellectuals and other social leaders. Goebbels's campaign amounted to mass murderers ““uncovering” mass murders on the part of their adversaries and seeking cynically to use that …

My Internship At The Champaign State’S Attorney’S Office, Rebecca Davis

Independent Honors Projects

A summary of my experiences during my service honors project as an intern in the Champaign County State's Attorney's Office.

Perverted Justice: Why Courts Are Ruling Against Restitution In Child Pornography Possession Cases, And How A Victim Compensation Fund Can Fix The Broken Restitution Framework, Tyler Morris

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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