Albany Law Review articles from March 2000

Albany Law Review archives from March 2000

Opening remarks.
March 22, 2000... Thank you for the invitation to join you here today. I am quite impressed by the program that Jim Peluso and the Albany Law Review has assembled, and I am very pleased to be a part of it. The invitation to make some opening remarks came...

Victims: the forgotten ingredient.
March 22, 2000... First of all, I want to thank Dean Moore for the invitation to speak at today's event. I think the administration and faculty of Albany Law School should know the role that Jim Peluso played in putting this together. He literally tracked me...

American drug laws: the new Jim Crow.
March 22, 2000... THE 1999 EDWARD C. SOBOTA LECTURE In 1942, over 120,000 Americans were stripped of their businesses and their homes and incarcerated for the duration of World War II.(1) They committed no offense. They were convicted of no crime. They were...

Pretext stops and racial profiling after Whren v. United States: the New York and New Jersey responses.
March 22, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION In the last two years of the twentieth century, the practice of racial profiling--targeting individuals for police investigation based on their race alone--came to the forefront of public consciousness in New York and New...

When bad things happen to good intentions: the development and demise of a task force examining the drugs-violence interrelationship.
March 22, 2000... Between 1994-1996, I was one of twenty-eight members of a Drugs [right arrow] Violence Task Force ("Task Force") created to report to the United States Sentencing Commission specific findings, conclusions, and recommendations concerning the...

Measuring culpability by measuring drugs? Three reasons to reevaluate the Rockefeller drug laws.(New York)
March 22, 2000... The so-called Rockefeller drug laws,(1) enacted in 1973, have been New York's principal weapon in the war against drugs for the past three decades. The statutory design, like the reasoning upon which it rests, is simple and...

Employer drug testing: disparate judicial and legislative responses.
March 22, 2000... In recent years, concerns about the increasing use of drugs has led many employers, both private and public, to use drug testing programs in an attempt to eliminate drug use in the workplace.(1) These testing programs raise numerous...

The challenges of integrating drug treatment into the criminal justice process.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION The enforcement of anti-drug laws and the consequences of drug abuse and addiction have impacted the nation's criminal justice system in profound ways over the past twenty-five years.(1) Police departments and other law...

Criminal justice contacts of users and sellers of hard drugs in Harlem.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2000... I. BACKGROUND Current American social policy and laws prescribe specific jail and prison time for those arrested for the sale and use of hard drugs (heroin, crack, and cocaine powder).(1) This policy is supported in part by the fact that...

The drug court response: issues and implications for justice change.
March 22, 2000... Whenever any new type of cause arises, the primitive device is to set up a new court.... [I]n a time in which unification is sorely needed, the tendency to make new courts is still strong with us.(1) I. INTRODUCTION: THE EMERGENCE OF A...