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Elected Judges and the Death Penalty in Texas, Bright, 2000

Publication • August 3, 2016

Filed under: Judiciary, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

regarding ineffective representation, including the lawyer’s failure to object to the state’s use of peremptory challenges to exclude black venire mem-bers, to obtain critical portions of transcripts ...

Preface - Criminal Law 2.0, Kozinski, 2015

Publication • February 11, 2016

Filed under: Legal Materials

could get a petit jury to convict a eunuch of rape. The “ten guilty men” aphorism is just one of many tropes we assimilate long before we become lawyers. How many of us, the author included, were inspired ...

Journal 6

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Filed under: Magazines, ACLU National Prison Project Journal

a sense of how corrections departments are responding to this medical crisis, and to share this information with the many people and agencies who are concerned about this serious problem ...

Nacdl Report Racial Disparities in Criminal -Court Processing

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Filed under: Discrimination, Racial Discrimination

plead guilty without ever going to trial;11 as a result, the charging decision - 2 “Note: Judging the Prosecution: Why Abolishing Peremptory Challenges Limits the Dangers of Prosecutorial Discretion ...

Tesmer v. Granholm-333 F.3d 683 (6th Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

disavowed in Singleton. [58] Federal courts have permitted third-party standing frequently in the context of racially suspect peremptory challenges during jury selection, identifying as obstacles ...

Beard v. Banks-126 S.Ct. 2572 (2006)

Case • 2006

the least perilous approach for resolving challenges to prison regulations and is the approach most faithful to the Constitution. "Sentencing a criminal to a term of imprisonment may ... carry ...

University of Utah Sj Quinney College of Law Research Paper Sexual Punishments Ristroph a 2006

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Filed under: Sexual Assault

and the noun. The challenge to the choice of noun is this: any sex, including sexual assaults, that may occur in prison is “not part of the penalty.”1 Only officially sanctioned deprivations of rights ...

Penal Reform International, Thailand Institute of Justice: Global Prison Trends, 2018

Publication • April 1, 2018

Filed under: Discrimination, Strip Searches, Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Statistics/Trends, War on Terror, War on Drugs, Food, Overcrowding, Lockdowns, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Terrorism, Death Penalty/Death Row, Mental Health, Drug Treatment/Rehab, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Juveniles, Juvenile Prisons, Guards/Staff, Assaults on Staff, Transgender, Discrimination (Transgender)

efforts to reduce their prison populations, many have resorted to unsustainable ‘quick fixes’ such as amnesties or building new prisons. Criminal justice policies affect nearly every aspect of the 2030 ...

The Trump Memos - ACLU’s Constitutional Analysis of the Public Statements and Policy Proposals of Donald Trump, ACLU, 2016

Publication • August 12, 2016

Filed under: Advocacy, Prison Reform

argued that Trump’s religious ban might survive a legal challenge, just as those historical race discrimination measures did. But Chae Chan Ping v. United States7 and the other cases upholding and applying ...

Race and Wrongful Convictions, National Registry of Exonerations, March 2017

Publication • March 7, 2017

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic Bias/Profiling, Racial Bias

before the landmark case of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), in which the Supreme Court for the first time created a procedure for challenging the use of peremptory challenges to create all white ...

Medwed Arizona Law Review Innocent Prisoners and Newly Discovered Non-dna Evidence in State Courts 2005

Publication • February 9, 2016

Filed under: Sentencing, Wrongful Conviction

treatment of newly discovered evidence claims and advocating a series of reforms). 28. See Mulroy, supra note 7, at 4 (commenting how, in many cases, exonerations “came as the result of the ‘sheer accident ...

Disabled by Solitude Disabilities and Supermax, UM Law Review (Demarco), 2011

Publication • February 10, 2016

Filed under: Discrimination, Disabled Prisoners

that about 190 million individuals suffer from a “severe” disability such as severe depression or blindness. Id. at 44. See also Arlene S. Kanter, The Promise and Challenge of the United Nations Convention ...

Julie K Brown Less Is More Decluttering the State Action Doctrine Notes on Wickersham v City of Columbia

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Filed under: Court Access

category. In fact, only the administration of elections,36 operation of a company town,37 eminent domain,38 peremptory challenges in jury selection,39 and, in very limited situations, the operation ...

Smart on Crime - Recommendations for the Administration and Congress, Smart on Crime Coalition, 2011

Publication • July 29, 2016

Filed under: Organizing, Prison Reform

, and public defenders. To effectively tackle these challenges, we must abandon heated rhetoric and explore policies based not on ideology, but on evidence. We must come together to forge a system that works ...

Committee on the Rights of the Child Rights of Children in International Migration 2012

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Filed under: International, Immigration

instruments b. Role and jurisprudence of treaty bodies and regional human rights systems c. International cooperation IV. Human Rights Challenges Affecting Children in the Context of International Migration ...

Un Report on Guantanamo Bay, 2006

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Filed under: Crime/Demographics, War on Terror, Military, Military Prisons

to challenge the legality of detention before a judicial body E. The right to be tried by a competent and independent tribunal F. The right to a fair trial III. TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING ...

Meaningful Access to Legal Representation, Human Rights Policy Seminar, 2015

Publication • February 11, 2016

Filed under: Appointment of Counsel, Prisoner Legal Assistance

................................................................................................................................ 150 Glossary of Acronyms .............................................................................................................. 152 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY For many years, the United States has ...

Szuchon v. Lehman-273 F.3d 299 (3rd Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

in which they lived together in California and in Philadelphia. Toward the end of 1980, Ms. Snyder left [Szuchon] in Philadelphia and returned to her parents' home in Erie. Refusing to accept ...

Targeted and Entrapped - Manufacturing the "Homegrown Threat" in the U.S., CHR GJ, 2011

Publication • August 4, 2016

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, War on Terror

, look around you, see how this world has changed… At least take 5 minutes to look into these cases, and research, and look for real proof. Lejla Duka, age 13, daughter of Dritan Duka, defendant ...

Human Rights Watch - Every 25 Seconds The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States, HRW ACLU, 2016

Publication • 2016

Filed under: Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Statistics/Trends, War on Drugs, Release and Reentry, Drug Treatment/Rehab

. Finally, through many stories, we recount how harmful the long-term consequences of incarceration and a criminal record that follow a conviction for drug possession can be—separating parents from young ...