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Apres Apprendi
(Federal Sentencing Reporter, 2000)
The Court in Apprendi v. New Jersey, ___ U.S. ___ (2000), held as a matter of due process that any fact, other than a prior conviction, that increases the penalty for an offense beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must ...
The Right to Voice Reprised
(Seton Hall Law Review, 2010)
This article appears in a symposium issue of Seton Hall Law Review on courtroom epistemology. In Proving the Unprovable: The Role of Law, Science and Speculation in Adjudicating Culpability and Dangerousness, I argued that ...
Enforcing Effective Assistance After Martinez
(Yale Law Journal, 2013)
This Essay argues that the Court’s effort to expand habeas review of ineffective assistance of counsel claims in Martinez v. Ryan will make little difference in either the enforcement of the right to the effective assistance ...
"Apprendi" and Plea Bargaining
(Stanford Law Review, 2001)
Before "Apprendi", prosecutors using recidivism as a club could, and did, regularly insist that defendants admit aggravating facts as part of the plea or face additional time. When the prosecutor's threats of added time ...
Portioning Punishment: Constitutional Limits on Successive and Excessive Penalties
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1995)
There has been a remarkable increase during the last decade in the imposition of overlapping civil, administrative, and criminal sanctions for the same misconduct,' as well as a steady rise in the severity of those sanctions.2 ...
Constitutional Risks to Equal Protection in the Criminal Justice System
(Harvard Law Review, 2001)
This Note has examined the consequences of a shift in the equal protection context - a move from a traditional particularized harm perspective to a constitutional risk perspective focused on systemic harms. It has also ...
Priceless Process: NonNegotiable Features of Criminal Litigation
(UCLA Law Review, 1999)
In this Article, Professor Nancy King develops an approach for determining when judges should block the efforts of criminal litigants to bypass constitutional and statutory requirements other than those already traded ...
Dangerousness and Expertise
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1984)
The defendant-first approach advocated in this Article is more difficult to implement than either the current policy admitting any proffered expert testimony or the exclusionary reform advanced by many commentators. It ...
Victims and Prison Release: A Modest Proposal
(Federal Sentencing Reporter, 2006)
The political right pushes for the strengthening of our criminal justice system by expanding victims' rights at the expense of defendant protections. The political left advocates the gradual replacement of the criminal ...
Victim Participation in the Criminal Process
(Journal of Law and Policy, 2005)
This essay does not promote the Victims' Rights Amendment16 or advocate any other specific victims' rights proposal. 17 Rather, it suggests that, as a positive matter, victim involvement in the criminal process is becoming ...