Criminal Justice Ethics articles from January 1996

Criminal Justice Ethics archives from January 1996

Tales of a criminal justice reformer.
January 1, 1996... A few months ago, I was asked to give a talk about my work to my son's Sunday school class. The children in the school come primarily from liberal households in the Washington, D.C., area. Many of their parents work for public interest...

Life story fee contracts: when may a criminal defendant demand ineffective counsel?
January 1, 1996... One glance through the more recent bestseller lists and television schedules reveals the American public's obsessive interest in stories involving bizarre criminal acts, such as the Amy Fisher case, the prosecution of the Menendez brothers, the...

Three conceptions of provocation.
January 1, 1996... Provocation is an extenuating ground. In the law of homicide, it reduces murder to manslaughter. In nonhomicide cases, it sometimes is explicitly recognized as grounds for sentence reduction. The Swedish sentencing law, for example, treats as...

Helping, doing, and the grammar of complicity.
January 1, 1996... In the law a constant stream of actual cases, more novel and more tortuous than the mere imagination could contrive, are brought up for decision-that is, formulae for docketing them must somehow be found. Hence it is necessary first to be careful...

What's wrong with complaint investigations? Dealing with difference differently in complaints against police.
January 1, 1996... The use of storytelling in the judgment process is based on the necessary assumption that experience and meaning are universal. In place of recognizing legitimate differences in the interpretation of social experience, jurors more often are...

Megan's law: constitutionality and policy.
January 1, 1996... In July, 1994, a seven-year-old girl, Megan Kanka, was sexually molested, then killed, by Jesse Timmendequas, a twice-convicted sex offender who lived with two other sex offenders in a house across from her in Hamilton Township, a small...

Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies.
January 1, 1996... Powerful new technologies are changing the way we reproduce, and the way we think about procreation, parenthood, family, and children. Certain practices, such as surrogate motherhood, and techniques, such as cloning, genetic screening, or...

Oedipus at Fenway Park: What Rights There Are and Why There Are Any.
January 1, 1996... The content of the leading academic law reviews has changed dramatically in the last quarter century. Before then virtually all their offerings were intended to be useful to lawyers in specialized practices; now they are heavily laden with...