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Witness Coaching By Prosecutors, Bennett L. Gershman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Given its controversial nature, one would expect the practice and ethics of witness coaching to have attracted close scrutiny by courts and commentators. Interestingly, however, the subject has received relatively modest attention. A handful of judicial and ethics opinions have discussed superficially the subject of witness preparation and coaching. Practitioner manuals typically offer general guidance on how to prepare witnesses, and occasionally address tactical and ethical issues involved in coaching. Scholarly commentary has examined the ethical limits of witness preparation, particularly by differentiating acceptable techniques from improper techniques, which promote false or misleading testimony. In addition, popular culture occasionally has …

Rape By Drugs: A Statutory Overview And Proposals For Reform, Patricia J. Falk

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

The methods by which human beings accomplish nonconsensual sexual activity with fellow humans are almost limitless. They use physical force; they beat, choke, and knock their victims unconscious. They kidnap and restrain them. They use weapons and threats of immediate force to subdue their quarry. They come in groups with the superior strength of their number. They exploit the element of surprise. They coerce, extort, and blackmail others into sexual submission. They lie, pretend, impersonate, and defraud, trapping the unwary in webs of deceit. They victimize mentally ill, mentally disabled, physically weak, and physically incapacitated persons. They abuse their positions …

The Principle Of Complementarity: A New Machinery To Implement International Criminal Law, Mohamed M. El Zeidy

Michigan Journal of International Law

According to the doctrine of State sovereignty each State has the right to exercise its jurisdiction over crimes committed in its territory-known as the territoriality principle. Even if the crimes committed are of a type that affects the international community as a whole, States are often hesitant to have their own nationals tried by an international judicial organ. History demonstrates that States rarely waived this right, which is inherent to their sovereignties, and did not rely exclusively on international justice. Rather they always preferred to exercise their jurisdiction exclusively, and only occasionally, when coerced by special circumstances, have they accepted …

Where Do We Go From Here? New And Emerging Issues In The Prosecution Of War Crimes And Acts Of Terrorism: A Panel Discussion, Kenneth Anderson

Presentations

Panel discussion.

Protecting Student Privacy: Reporting Campus Crimes As An Alternative To Disclosing Student Disciplinary Records, Tamu K. Walton

Indiana Law Journal

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Racial Profiling Under Attack, Samuel R. Gross, D. Livingston

Articles

The events of September 11, 2001, have sparked a fierce debate over racial profiling. Many who readily condemned the practice a year ago have had second thoughts. In the wake of September 11, the Department ofJustice initiated a program of interviewing thousands of men who arrived in this country in the past two years from countries with an al Qaeda presence-a program that some attack as racial profiling, and others defend as proper law enforcement. In this Essay, Professors Gross and Livingston use that program as the focus of a discussion of the meaning of racial profiling, its use in …

So Young And So Untender: Remorseless Children And The Expectations Of The Law, Martha Grace Duncan

Faculty Articles

A nine-year-old speaks with apparent callousness as he walks by the body of the girl he has killed. A fourteen-year-old jokes about "body parts in her pocket" after bashing in her mother's head with a candlestick holder. And a fifteen-year-old laughingly names his accomplice ''Homicide" after participating in a robbery that culminated in the victim's death. Seemingly remorseless acts such as these can have a crucial impact on the way a child or adolescent fares in the juvenile justice or criminal system. Yet, when one looks closely at what the courts interpret as indicators of remorselessness -- ­taking into account …

Cook County Criminal Law Practice In 1929: A Community's Response To Crime And A Notorious Trial, Thomas F. Geraghty

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Learning From The Past, Living In The Present: Understanding Homicide In Chicago, 1870-1930, Leigh B. Bienen, Brandon Rottinghaus

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Owing To The Extreme Youth Of The Accused: The Changing Legal Response To Juvenile Homicide, David S. Tanenhaus, Steven A. Drizin

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Understanding Infanticide In Context: Mothers Who Kill, 1870-1930 And Today, Michelle Oberman

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Wife Murder In Chicago: 1910-1930, Cynthia Grant Bowman, Ben Altman

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Lunatics And Anarchists: Political Homicide In Chicago, Edward M. Burke

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Afterword To Lunatics And Anarchists: Political Homicide In Chicago, Leigh B. Bienen, Thomas J. O'Gorman

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Homicide In New York, Los Angeles And Chicago, Eric H. Monkkonen

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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I Loved Joe, But I Had To Shoot Him: Homicide By Women In Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago, Jeffrey S. Adler

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Homicides Among Chicago Families: 1870-1930, Roland Chilton

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Capital Punishment For The Crime Of Homicide In Chicago: 1870-1930, Derral Cheatwood

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Life Terms Or Death Sentences: The Uneasy Relationship Between Judicial Elections And Capital Punishment, Richard R. W. Brooks, Steven Raphael

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Firearm Deaths, Gun Availability, And Legal Regulatory Changes: Suggestions From The Data, Greg S. Weaver

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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What Were They Smoking: The Supreme Court's Latest Step In A Long, Strange Trip Through The Fourth Amendment, Daniel Mckenzie

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Quiet Rebellion Ii: An Empirical Analysis Of Declining Federal Drug Sentences Including Data From The District Level, Frank O. Bowman, Michael Heise

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This is the second of two articles in which we seek an explanation for the hitherto unexamined fact that the average length of prison sentences imposed in federal court for narcotics violations declined by more than 15% between 1991-92 and 2000.

Our first article, Quiet Rebellion? Explaining Nearly a Decade of Declining Federal Drug Sentences, 86 Iowa Law Review 1043 (May 2001) ( "Rebellion I" ), examined national sentencing data in an effort to determine whether the decline in federal drug sentences is real (rather than a statistical anomaly), and to identify and analyze possible causes of the decline. We …

The Scottsboro Trials: A Legal Lynching, Faust Rossi

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Twenty-Five Years Of Death: A Report Of The Cornell Death Penalty Project On The "Modern" Era Of Capital Punishment In South Carolina, John H. Blume

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

In 1972, the United States Supreme Court determined that the death penalty, as then administered in this country, violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Many states, including South Carolina, scurried to enact new, "improved" capital punishment statutes which would satisfy the Supreme Court's rather vague mandate. In 1976, the High Court approved some of the new laws, and the American death penalty was back in business. After a wrong turn or two, including a statutory scheme which did not pass constitutional muster, the South Carolina General Assembly passed the current death penalty statute in 1977. The …

Book Review

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Recent Books

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Questions Unanswered: The Fifth Amendment And Innocent Witnesses, Angela Roxas

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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City Of Indianapolis V. Edmond: The Constitutionality Of Drug Interdiction Checkpoints, Ann Mulligan

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Federal Habeas Review: The Supreme Court's Failure To Apply Williams Consistently, Marry Connell Grubb

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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United States V. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative: Whatever Happened To Federalism, Caroline Herman

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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