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Habeas Corpus and State Sentencing Reform: A Story of Unintended Consequences
(Duke Law Journal, 2008)
This Article tells the story of how fundamental shifts in state sentencing policy collided with fundamental shifts in federal habeas policy to produce a tangled and costly doctrinal wreck. The conventional assumption is ...
Rethinking Legally Relevant Mental Disorder
(Ohio Northern University Law Review, 2003)
The law insists on maintaining mental disorder as a predicate for a wide array of legal provisions, in both the criminal justice system and the civil law. Among adults, only a person with a "mental disease or defect" can ...
Using Criminal Punishment to Serve Both Victim and Social Needs
(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2009)
In this article we propose changing the manner in which control rights over criminal sanctions are distributed. This modest change has the potential to increase victim well-being without interfering with social needs. ...
The Structure of Expertise in Criminal Cases
(Seton Hall Law Review, 2003)
This essay, part of a two-issue symposium on the implications of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals and its progeny, is built around three propositions about expert testimony and criminal cases. First, the "Daubert ...
Sentencing and Prior Convictions: The Past, the Future, and the End of the Prior-Conviction Exception to Apprendi
(Marquette Law Review, 2014)
This article traces the fascinating history of early efforts to identify defendants and their prior convictions as well as the evolving use of prior convictions in aggravating punishment; examines how contemporary repeat ...
The Civilization of the Criminal Law
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2005)
This article explores the jurisprudential and practical feasibility of a "preventive" regime of criminal justice. More specifically, it examines an updated version of the type of government intervention espoused four decades ...
Treating Juveniles Like Juveniles: Getting Rid of Transfer and Expanded Adult Court Jurisdiction
(Texas Tech Law Review, 2013)
The number of juveniles transferred to adult court has skyrocketed in the past two decades and has only recently begun to level off. This symposium article argues that, because it wastes resources, damages juveniles, and ...
Felony Jury Sentencing in Practice: A Three-State Study
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2004)
Jury sentencing in non-capital cases is one of the least understood procedures in contemporary American criminal justice. This Article looks beyond idealized visions of jury sentencing to examine for the first time how ...
A Jurisprudence of Dangerousness
(Northwestern University Law Review, 2003)
This article addresses the state's police power authority to deprive people of liberty based on predictions of antisocial behavior. Most conspicuously exercised against so-called "sexual predators," this authority purportedly ...
Citizens United & Corporate & Human Crime
(Green Bag 2d, 2010)
Citizens United v. Election Commission held that, like human citizens, corporations can exercise their right to free speech by spending as much money as they like trying to influence elections. This article does not attack ...