American Criminal Law Review articles from January 2007

American Criminal Law Review archives from January 2007

A picture's worth a thousand words: conversational versus eyewitness testimony in criminal convictions.
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Scholars and practitioners alike share a widespread belief that the single greatest cause of wrongful conviction is erroneous eyewitness testimony. This conventional wisdom is almost certainly wrong. Conversational...

Corporations cry uncle and their employees cry foul: rethinking prosecutorial pressure on corporate defendants.
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Judge Kaplan's sharp criticism of the government's tactics in the July 2006 KPMG decision, United States v. Stein, highlighted the federal prosecutorial policy, embodied in the so-called Thompson Memorandum, of pressuring...

Crime and (with a lag) punishment: the implications of discounting for equitable sentencing.
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: Because criminals discount the future, the deterrence and retributive value of a given criminal sanction steadily decreases as the lag between crime and punishment lengthens. Discounting thus implies that the same nominal...

Satisfy the demands of justice: embrace electronic recording of custodial investigative interviews through legislation, agency policy, or court mandate.
January 1, 2007... Three young black men are picked up at a fast food restaurant in connection with the shooting of a white couple in a nearby park. Under pressure to resolve a highly charged situation, the police inadvertently provide information about the crime...

Children as adults: the transfer of juveniles to adult courts and the potential impact of Roper v. Simmons.
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's groundbreaking decision in Roper v. Simmons, (1) the American system of juvenile jurisprudence is now at an important crossroad. Previously, a misguided public sentiment and an...