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The Use Of Expert Opinion Evidence In Criminal Proceedings: An Updated Framework, Siyuan CHEN, Zhi Jia KOH, Jian Wei Joel SOON 2021 Singapore Management University

The Use Of Expert Opinion Evidence In Criminal Proceedings: An Updated Framework, Siyuan Chen, Zhi Jia Koh, Jian Wei Joel Soon

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The 2012 amendments to the Evidence Act2 “significantly broadened the admissibility criteria for expert evidence”;3 at the same time, the judicial discretion to deny admissibility of relevant expert opinion evidence was also introduced. This article considers the key developments pre- and post-amendments, and in doing so provides an updated framework for prosecutors and defence counsel alike to admit and challenge expert opinion evidence in criminal proceedings. Since it complements earlier articles in this series on similar fact4 and hearsay evidence,5 readers are assumed to be broadly familiar with the features of the Evidence Act, such as its admissibility paradigm, the …


Death By Police: When “Protecting And Serving” Goes Wrong, Hesper Mallis 2021 Kennesaw State University

Death By Police: When “Protecting And Serving” Goes Wrong, Hesper Mallis

Symposium of Student Scholars

The recent cases of law enforcement using lethal force in the United States have gained massive public attention. My dataset is from the Mapping Police Violence website. The website’s focus was to create a heat map to display where police killings occurred most frequently. The website has a dataset with information on 7,664 deaths of suspects. The variables in the dataset include age, sex and race of the suspect; geographic location; alleged threat level; alleged weapon; cause of death; and criminal charges against the officer. In addition, the variables include whether the individual had a mental illness, was armed or …


Marijuana Arrests In Toronto Canada: A Look Into The Canadian Criminal Justice System, Steven Tully 2021 Kennesaw State University

Marijuana Arrests In Toronto Canada: A Look Into The Canadian Criminal Justice System, Steven Tully

Symposium of Student Scholars

Marijuana related drug offenses made up fifty-eight percent of all Controlled Drugs and Substances Act offenses in Canada in 2016. On October 17, 2018, Canada legalized marijuana. As part of the efforts to legalize marijuana, descriptive statistics of single variables, like the age of the arrestees and the number of people arrested per year, were reported by the Toronto Star newspaper. The dataset analyzed in this research predates the legalization of marijuana and was collected from 1997 to 2002 on 5,226 individuals arrested in Toronto, Canada for simple possession of small quantities of marijuana. When an offender was arrested for …


Bias In Police Shootings: Is It Just An Opinion?, Phuong Ho 2021 Kennesaw State University

Bias In Police Shootings: Is It Just An Opinion?, Phuong Ho

Symposium of Student Scholars

The claims of racism have drawn public attention toward police brutality and its impact on minorities. Is this just an opinion or is there any statistical evidence? Recent studies from The Atlantic have investigated the average age and ethnicity of victims from police killings in 2015-2016. As an Asian-American, I am motivated to examine the issue of police killings among races and other demographics to find any bias that is present. Using the dataset of 2,204 victims of police killings (2015-2016) collected by The Guardian, I will examine the following variables for bias: age, cause of death, armed/unarmed, race/ethnicity, and …


Usaha Tanpa Izin Lingkungan: Menilai Pertanggungjawaban Pidana Korporasi, Hariman Satria 2021 Universitas Indonesia

Usaha Tanpa Izin Lingkungan: Menilai Pertanggungjawaban Pidana Korporasi, Hariman Satria

Indonesia Criminal Law Review

PT Agro Indomas as a corporation was convicted of having committed a criminal act of running a business without an environmental permit, explicitly in Decision Number 77/Pid.Sus/2018/PN Tgt. This study method uses normative legal research, through a case approach and a conceptual approach. There are several findings in this study, namely: the expressive verbis a quo decision has met the formal and material requirements of the indictment. If seen from the prosecution letter, the a quo decision has a weakness, namely that there are no additional criminal charges in the form of corrections due to criminal acts. In the ratio …


Memikirkan Kembali Unsur “Hukum Yang Hidup Dalam Masyarakat” Dalam Pasal 2 Rkuhp Ditinjau Perspektif Asas Legalitas., Nella Sumika Putri 2021 Universitas Indonesia

Memikirkan Kembali Unsur “Hukum Yang Hidup Dalam Masyarakat” Dalam Pasal 2 Rkuhp Ditinjau Perspektif Asas Legalitas., Nella Sumika Putri

Indonesia Criminal Law Review

Living law is an inseparable part of the Indonesian criminal law system. However, in perspective of legality principle, living law causing pros and cons. The idea of regulating the living law in Indonesian Penal Code Bill (Article 2 paragraph 1), as the basis for criminal prosecution, for unregulated act is still debated. The issue that will be analysed in this article is how to apply living law/adat law as a basis for prosecuting criminals related to the existence of legality principle and, how to measure the enforcement of living law in criminal process. Based on the analysis using the principle …


Pelanggaran Protokol Kesehatan Covid-19: Ultimum Remedium Atau Primum Remedium (Studi Kasus Mrhs), Salman Alfarisy, Nadrya Ning Tias, Johan Sahbudin 2021 Universitas Indonesia

Pelanggaran Protokol Kesehatan Covid-19: Ultimum Remedium Atau Primum Remedium (Studi Kasus Mrhs), Salman Alfarisy, Nadrya Ning Tias, Johan Sahbudin

Indonesia Criminal Law Review

Indonesia as one of the countries affected by the Covid-19 pandemic has implemented various policies to implement health protocol rules in an effort to minimize the spread of the virus. The policy starts at the socialization stage to the imposition of sanctions. There are administrative sanctions and criminal sanctions which have also begun to be applied, as a strong threat to those who try to underestimate the implementation of health protocols. In late 2020, Indonesia was shocked by the violation of health protocols which were directly threatened with criminal sanctions even though the suspect had carried out administrative sanctions from …


Tinjauan Atas Kriminalisasi Illicit Enrichment Dalam Tindak Pidana Korupsi Di Indonesia: Studi Perbandingan Dengan Australia, Diky Anandya Kharystya Putra, Vidya Prahassacitta 2021 Universitas Indonesia

Tinjauan Atas Kriminalisasi Illicit Enrichment Dalam Tindak Pidana Korupsi Di Indonesia: Studi Perbandingan Dengan Australia, Diky Anandya Kharystya Putra, Vidya Prahassacitta

Indonesia Criminal Law Review

The purpose of this article is to critic the urgency for Indonesia to apply the illicit enrichment. Indonesia has ratified the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. Even thought, it has been regulated in corruption and money laundering regime, Indonesia has not carried out comprehensive harmonization Article 20 concerning the illicit enrichment. This paper discuses two issues, how the concept of illicit enrichment in corruption crimes is based on the convention? Then, how Indonesian should regulate the illicit enrichment? To answer those questions, the researchers use comparative law approach, specific to regulation and application of unexplained wealth in Australia. The results …


Pro Kontra Sanksi Kebiri Kimia: Sanksi Yang Progresif Atau Primitif?, Hafrida Hafrida 2021 Universitas Indonesia

Pro Kontra Sanksi Kebiri Kimia: Sanksi Yang Progresif Atau Primitif?, Hafrida Hafrida

Indonesia Criminal Law Review

Chemical castration sanctions were applied in Indonesia through Law No. 17 of 2016 on the Second Amendment to Law No. 23 of 2002 on Child Protection. Since 2016 until now in 2021 there has only been 1 (one) Judge’s Decision on additional chemical castration sanctions imposed on perpetrators of child sexual abuse, namely the Verdict of PN Mojokerto No. 69/Pid.sus/2019/PN.Mjk, May 2, 2019. The verdict provoked a strong reaction from human rights observers. The Impelementation Regulation on Procedures for the Implementation of Chemical Castration, Installation of Electronic Detection Devices, Rehabilitation, and Announcement of the Identity of Perpetrators of Sexual Violence …


Limiting The Legality Of Determining Suspects In Indonesia Pre-Trial System, I Gede Widhiana Suarda, Moch. Marsa Taufiqurrohman, Zaki Priambudi 2021 University of Jember, Indonesia

Limiting The Legality Of Determining Suspects In Indonesia Pre-Trial System, I Gede Widhiana Suarda, Moch. Marsa Taufiqurrohman, Zaki Priambudi

Indonesia Law Review

This article aims to examine what the pre-trial judges consider in determining whether a suspect's determination is legal. The basis of the reason "not based on the provisions and legal procedures in force" is a pre-trial petition. Including examining whether the Notification Letter for the Commencement of Investigation has not been submitted to the Reported Party and the Reporting Party, it can be used as a basis for the judge's consideration to judge the legality of the determination of the suspect. This article uses a legal research method through a statutory, conceptual, and case approach. This article finds that after …


Principle Of Simple, Speedy, And Low-Cost Trial And The Problem Of Asset Recovery In Indonesia, Febby Mutiara Nelson, Topo Santoso 2021 Faculty of Law, Univeristas Indonesia

Principle Of Simple, Speedy, And Low-Cost Trial And The Problem Of Asset Recovery In Indonesia, Febby Mutiara Nelson, Topo Santoso

Indonesia Law Review

This article discusses whether simple, speedy and low-cost principles have been implemented in the criminal justice in Indonesia and the obstacles faced by the Indonesian criminal justice system, especially in terms of returning state losses due to corruption cases. The findings indicate that such principles are yet to be effectively implemented in the criminal justice system in Indonesia. Some obvious issues have emerged as an area for attention; first, that law enforcement in corruption cases takes a long time, remains complicated, and is also high-priced. Second, there are a number of obstacles confronted by the Indonesian criminal justice system, especially …


The State's Monopoly Of Force And The Right To Bear Arms, Robert Leider 2021 Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

The State's Monopoly Of Force And The Right To Bear Arms, Robert Leider

Northwestern University Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Second Amendment In A Carceral State, Alice Ristroph 2021 Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

The Second Amendment In A Carceral State, Alice Ristroph

Northwestern University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Parental Incarceration And The Costly Effects On Their Children, Briana Rae Zocher 2021 Concordia University, St. Paul

Parental Incarceration And The Costly Effects On Their Children, Briana Rae Zocher

Master of Arts in Criminal Justice Leadership

The purpose of this project is to bring awareness to the silent victims associated with parental incarceration – their children. Throughout this project, the focus will be aimed towards promoting the education of the effects of parental incarceration and the impact it has on their children in a variety of compacities and how those settings influence incarceration amongst children of incarcerated parents. In addition, this paper will discuss parental incarceration in three different lens views: administrative, ethical, and legal. First, the administrative lens pertaining to leadership and evolution to successful leadership, especially the critical component of crisis communication strategy. Second, …


Crisis Management Lessons From The Clinton Administration's Implementation Of Presidential Decision Directive 56, Leonard R. Hawley 2021 US Army War College

Crisis Management Lessons From The Clinton Administration's Implementation Of Presidential Decision Directive 56, Leonard R. Hawley

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

Drawing on personal experience, the author asks what the current administration can learn from the Clinton administration’s implementation of Presidential Decision Directive 56, examines the real-world application of the directive during the Clinton administration and the pitfalls of its agency-centric successor during the Bush administration, and identifies recurring problems and best practices for successfully responding to current global crises.


Legal Fictions And Moral Reasoning: Capital Punishment And The Mentally Retarded Defendant After Penry V. Johnson, Timothy S. Hall 2021 The University of Akron

Legal Fictions And Moral Reasoning: Capital Punishment And The Mentally Retarded Defendant After Penry V. Johnson, Timothy S. Hall

Akron Law Review

The relationship between mental health law and criminal law is disturbing in both its substance and its scope. If it is true that the task of lawyering is that of enabling the client to have his story told, it is certainly true that nowhere are clients' stories more complex than in the intersection between criminal law and mental health law. This Article involves one such intersection: the relationship between mental retardation and capital punishment. Johnny Paul Penry is a convicted rapist and murderer on death row in Texas. He is a survivor of long-term child abuse and organic brain damage …


Tribe V. Devereaux, 21-Ap-02 (Blkft. Tr. Ct. App., Aug. 8, 2021), Blackfeet Appellate Court 2021 University of Montana

Tribe V. Devereaux, 21-Ap-02 (Blkft. Tr. Ct. App., Aug. 8, 2021), Blackfeet Appellate Court

Court Decisions

In the Blackfeet Tribal Court of Appeals, the Court reversed a lower court judgement against a grandchild who was found guilty of stealing their grandmother's phone. The lower court record did not indicate that any witnesses appeared before the Court to provide testimony to the allegation. Defendant was denied due process of law because there was no sworn testimony or evidence that demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that Defendant knowingly, affirmatively committed theft. The Lower court ruling was not supported by the record. Reversed and dismissed.


Minding Accidents, Teneille R. Brown 2021 S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah

Minding Accidents, Teneille R. Brown

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

Tort doctrine states that breach is all about conduct. Unlike in the criminal law, where jurors must engage in an amateur form of mindreading to evaluate mens rea, jurors are told that they can assess civil negligence by looking only at how the defendant behaved. But this is false. Foreseeability is at the heart of negligence—appearing as the primary tests for duty, breach, and proximate cause. And yet, we cannot ask whether a defendant should have foreseen a risk without interrogating what he subjectively knew, remembered, perceived, or realized at the time. In fact, the focus on actions in negligence …


Mr. X And Mr. Y Source Material: Finding Aid, Bethany Latham 2021 Jacksonville State University

Mr. X And Mr. Y Source Material: Finding Aid, Bethany Latham

Finding Aids

This collection contains photographs, a clipping file, notes, and newspaper articles pertaining to the murder investigation of a double homicide (known as the “Torso Murders”) that occurred in Calhoun County, Alabama, in 1959. In June 1959, a torso was discovered near Attalla, Alabama, and a day later, a second torso was found near Ashville, Alabama. The two unidentified bodies were designated Mr. X and Mr. Y; they were later identified as Lee and Emmett Harper, who had been living in a trailer on a farm in White Plains, Alabama. Viola Hyatt, daughter of the farmer on whose land the brothers …


Judicial Application Of Strict Liability Local Ordinances, Guyora Binder, Brenner Fissell 2021 University at Buffalo School of Law

Judicial Application Of Strict Liability Local Ordinances, Guyora Binder, Brenner Fissell

Journal Articles

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