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Category Archives: Criminal Procedure
Caycee Hampton, Confirmation of a Catch-22: Glik V. Cunniffe and the Paradox of Citizen Recording
63 Fla. L. Rev. 1549 (2011)| | | | Child pornography offenders capitalize on the vulnerability of children and find pleasure in their victims’ humiliation. In United States v. Irey, the defendant sadistically raped, sodomized, and tortured more than fifty … Continue reading
Kathryn A. Kimball, Losing our Soul: Judicial Discretion in Sentencing Child Pornography Offenders
63 Fla. L. Rev. 1515 (2011)| | | | Child pornography offenders capitalize on the vulnerability of children and find pleasure in their victims’ humiliation. In United States v. Irey, the defendant sadistically raped, sodomized, and tortured more than fifty … Continue reading
Posted in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, Governments and Legislation, Judicial Systems, Jurisprudence
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Scott A. Moss, The Overhyped Path from Tinker to Morse: How the Student Speech Cases Show the Limits of Supreme Court Decisions-for The Law and for the Litigants
63 Fla. L. Rev. 1407 (2011)| | | | Each of the Supreme Court’s high school student speech cases reflected the social angst of its era. In 1965′s Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, three Iowa teens broke … Continue reading
Posted in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Education Law, Federal Courts, First Amendment, Uncategorized
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Jonathan Witmer-Rich, Interrogation and the Roberts Court
63 Fla. L. Rev. 1189 (2011)| | | ARTICLE :: Through 2010, the Roberts Court decided five cases involving the rules for police interrogation under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments: Kansas v. Ventris; Montejo v. Louisiana; Florida v. Powell; Maryland … Continue reading
Nathan A. Frazier, Amending for Justice’s Sake: Codified Disclosure Rule Needed to Provide Guidance to Prosecutor’s Duty to Disclose
63 Fla. L. Rev. 771 (2011)| | | | ABSTRACT :: “I wouldn’t wish what I am going through on anyone,” Senator Ted Stevens commented after losing his seat in the United States Senate on November 18, 2008. Senator Stevens … Continue reading
Posted in Attorney Practice, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Fourth Amendment, Governments and Legislation, Uncategorized
Tagged 4th amendment, 6th amendment, bias, blatant violations, Brady, confessions, confrontation clause, considerable authority, conviction, Criminal Defense, Criminal Procedure, criminal prosecution, Discovery, Federal Court, federal rules of civil procedure, Giglio, inconsistent statements, information, Jencks, material evidence, mental impairments, monetary rewards, paid informants, prior testimony, promises of immunity, Rule 26, suppression, vacate
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Russell D. Covey, Longitudinal Guilt: Repeat Offenders, Plea Bargaining, and the Variable Standard of Proof
63 Fla. L. Rev. 431 (2011)| | | | ABSTRACT :: This Article introduces a new concept-“longitudinal guilt”-which invites readers to reconsider basic presuppositions about the way our criminal justice system determines guilt in criminal cases. In short, the idea … Continue reading
Posted in Attorney Practice, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Uncategorized
Tagged Burden of Proof, Changes and Withrdawls, Covey, criminal justice system, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, danger ous offenders, deterrance, graduated sentencing systems, Guilty Pleas, longitudinal guilt, offenders, reasonable doubt, recidivism, repeat offenders, Sentencing, specific allegations of wrong doing
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