American Criminal Law Review articles from March 1995

American Criminal Law Review archives from March 1995

The trial as text: allegory, myth and symbol in the adversarial criminal process - a critique of the role of the public defender and a proposal for reform.
March 22, 1995... Introduction It is a recurring image on our television screens: a young man - frequently Black(1) and poor - is hustled from police car to courthouse door. As two burly police officers grip him tightly by the arms, he tries to hide his face...

The Money Laundering Control Act of 1986: creating a new federal offense or merely affording federal prosecutors an alternative means of punishing specified unlawful activity?
March 22, 1995... [TABULAR DATA OMITTED] I. INTRODUCTION A. Legislative History Money laundering has been characterized as the "lifeblood" of international narcotics trafficking and traditional organized crime.(1) The Money Laundering Control Act ("MLCA")...

Two critical evidentiary issues in child sexual abuse cases: closed-circuit testimony by child victims and exceptions to the hearsay rule.
March 22, 1995... [TABULAR DATA OMITTED] I. Introduction The American public is often outraged by its perception that our criminal justice system offers greater protection to the accused than to the child victim involved in a child sexual abuse prosecution....

The public defender as private offender: a retreat from evolving malpractice liability standards for public defenders.
March 22, 1995... [TABULAR DATA OMITTED] INTRODUCTION Suppose a public defender(1) omitted interviewing an alibi witness, failed to call a relevant expert to the stand, or neglected to move for the exclusion of illegally seized evidence. Suppose further that,...