Author: William Adam HultonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Convictions
Author: William Adam HultonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction
Author: Margaret Colgate LovePublisher:
ISBN: 9781539292913
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"No longer can any person involved in the criminal justice system ignore the vast array of restrictions and disqualifications that are triggered by a criminal conviction. Judges, defense lawyers, prosecutors, probation officials and, of course, accused persons themselves must recognize that much more is at stake in a criminal prosecution than the court-imposed sentence. Even minor offenses trigger serious and potentially life-altering statutory and regulatory penalties. These so-called 'collateral consequences' are scattered throughout statutes, regulations, and municipal ordinances. They are difficult to find, and are too frequently ignored during plea negotiations and at sentencing. When it becomes apparent how many opportunities and privileges have been lost as a result of a conviction there may be little the convicted person can do about it. For this reason, collateral consequences have become an increasingly important part of civil practice areas as diverse as employment, government contracts, civil rights, immigration, housing, and family law. This volume seeks to ensure that the parties involved in a criminal case can identify and understand the full range of disabilities and disqualifications that accompany conviction. It also seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for civil practitioners whose clients are seeking to mitigate the effects of collateral consequences, as well as policy advocates and public officials seeking to reform the way the legal system treats those with a conviction record."--Page ix.
A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws
Author: Joseph Henry BealePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conflict of laws
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law
Author: Joseph ChittyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
A Treatise of the Laws of Nature
Author: Richard CumberlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States
Author: Francis WhartonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Mortgage
Author: Richard Holmes CootePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mortgages
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Evidence
Author: Simon GreenleafPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown
Author: Joseph ChittyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prerogative, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Wrongful Convictions Reader
Author: Russell D. CoveyPublisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
ISBN: 9781531023874
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fueled by more than 2,000 exonerations of wrongfully convicted men and women, the "innocence revolution" has shaken the criminal justice system to its core. By gathering the leading research, law, and policy analysis into one volume, The Wrongful Convictions Reader explores the core contributing factors to wrongful convictions: false confessions, witness misidentifications, cognitive bias, junk science, police and prosecutorial misconduct, racial bias, and ineffective assistance of counsel. The second edition provides an expanded treatment of certain critical topics. The reader now includes an entire chapter devoted to race and wrongful convictions and provides expanded treatment of the intersections between gender, sexual orientation, and disability and wrongful conviction. The addition of these topics in expanded form creates new options for instructors to explore timely topics in the field of compelling concern to many contemporary students. As before, the book remains more than a mere 'reader' of literature in the field, but rather a book that can serve as the principal text in doctrinal as well as experiential courses. Each chapter is divided into three sections that include: readings, current law overview--which summarizes the key cases in the area; and legal materials, exercises, and media--which provides relevant experiential activities. Examples from the legal materials, exercises, and media sections includes: Recommended listening and viewing: timed excerpts from podcast episodes, films, and television clips; Oral advocacy exercises: mock bail arguments, parole hearings, testimony before the state legislature, presentations to the state rules committee, appellate oral arguments; Written advocacy exercises: practice motions and comparing state statutes; Issue spotting exercises: transcripts from interrogations and in-court testimony; Review: reflective essays, short answer questions, and true/false questions; Team exercises: plea negotiations; Discussion prompts; and Actual wrongful conviction case documents.