Revisiting the Public Safety Exception to Miranda for Suspected Terrorists: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the Bombing of the 2013 Boston Marathon
Revisiting the Public Safety Exception to Miranda for Suspected Terrorists: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the Bombing of the 2013 Boston Marathon This Comment examines the application of the public safety exception…
Let Them Frye: Frye Hearings for Determination of “Mental Disorders” in the Sexually Violent Persons Act
Let Them Frye: Frye Hearings for Determination of "Mental Disorders" in the Sexually Violent Persons Act Specific laws aimed at the confinement of mentally disabled sexually violent persons have existed…
What Happens if Autopsy Reports are Found Testimonial?: The Next Steps to Ensure the Admissibility of These Critical Documents in Criminal Trials
What Happens if Autopsy Reports are Found Testimonial?: The Next Steps to Ensure the Admissibility of These Critical Documents in Criminal Trials The Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant the…
Organizational Conformity and Punishment: Federal Court Communities and Judge-Initiated Guidelines Departures
Organizational Conformity and Punishment: Federal Court Communities and Judge-Initiated Guidelines Departures The Sentencing Guidelines represent a uniform set of formal rules that are implemented across a broad range of diverse…
From Grace to Grids: Rethinking Due Process Protection for Parole
From Grace to Grids: Rethinking Due Process Protection for Parole Current due process law gives little protection to prisoners at the point of parole, even though the parole decision, like…
Profit-Driven Prosecution and the Competitive Bidding Process
Profit-Driven Prosecution and the Competitive Bidding Process Prosecutors are the most powerful organs of the criminal justice system, enjoying discretion in decision-making far beyond that of law enforcement officials, defense…
Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago: Looking Back a Decade Later
Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago: Looking Back a Decade Later Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) is a federally funded initiative that brings together federal, state, and local law enforcement to reduce…
Purpose, Policing, and the Fourth Amendment
Purpose, Policing, and the Fourth Amendment Fourth Amendment cases are replete with references to “purpose.” Typically, these references pertain to the motivations of individual officers and occasionally to those of…
Structuring Pre-Plea Criminal Discovery
Structuring Pre-Plea Criminal Discovery Ninety-seven percent of federal defendants plead guilty, and they rely on prosecutors for much of the information about the government’s case on which the decision to…
Criminalizing Terrorism in Canada: Investigating the Sentencing Outcomes of Terrorist Offenders From 1963 to 2010
Criminalizing Terrorism in Canada: Investigating the Sentencing Outcomes of Terrorist Offenders From 1963 to 2010 Despite having endured significant terrorist incidents over the past 50 years, terrorism-specific offenses were not…
Police Body Cameras in Large Police Departments
Police Body Cameras in Large Police Departments Body Worn Cameras are spreading worldwide, under the assumption that police performance, conduct, accountability, and legitimacy, in the eyes of the public, are…
The Long Goodbye: After the Innocence Movement, Does the Attorney-Client Relationship Ever End?
The Long Goodbye: After the Innocence Movement, Does the Attorney-Client Relationship Ever End? Inspired by the Innocence Movement, the American Bar Association has placed an unprecedented new obligation on defense…