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Postconviction Review of Jury Discrimination: Measuring the Effects of Juror Race on Jury Decisions
(Michigan Law Review, 1993)
As the Court has expanded its definition of jury selection techniques that violate constitutional standards, it has narrowed the circumstances that entitle defendants to postconviction relief. These two developments are ...
Appeal Waivers and the Future of Sentencing Policy
(Duke Law Journal, 2005)
This paper is the first empirical analysis of appeal waivers clauses in plea agreements by which defendants waive their rights to appellate and postconviction review. Based on interviews and an analysis of data coded from ...
Rethinking the Federal Role in State Criminal Justice
(New York University Law Review, 2009)
This Essay argues that federal habeas review of state criminal cases squanders resources the federal government should be using to help states reform their systems of defense representation. A 2007 empirical study reveals ...
Juries and Prior Convictions: Managing the Demise of the Prior Conviction Exception to "Apprendi"
(SMU Law Review, 2014)
This essay offers a menu of procedural alternatives for coping with the potential, some would say inevitable, abandonment of the prior conviction exception to the rule in Apprendi v. New Jersey. It compiles options states ...