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Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Bracy V. Schomig
Author: Captured by Evil
Author: Laura S. UnderkufflerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300195303
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
One of the most powerful words in the English language, corruption is also one of the most troubled concepts in law. According to Laura Underkuffler, it is a concept based on religiously revealed ideas of good and evil. But the notion of corruption defies the ordinary categories by which law defines crimes -- categories that punish acts, not character, and that eschew punishment on the basis of religion and emotion. Drawing on contemporary examples, including former assembly woman Diane Gordon and former governor Rod Blagojevich, this book explores the implications and dangers of maintaining such an archaic concept at the heart of criminal law.
Courtroom 302
Author: Steve BogiraPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030781419X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Steve Bogira’s riveting book takes us into the heart of America’s criminal justice system. Courtroom 302 is the story of one year in one courtroom in Chicago’s Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. We see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge’s chambers, the spectators’ gallery. When the judge and his staff go to the scene of the crime during a burglary trial, we go with them on the sheriff’s bus. We witness from behind the scenes the highest-profile case of the year: three young white men, one of them the son of a reputed mobster, charged with the racially motivated beating of a thirteen-year-old black boy. And we follow the cases that are the daily grind of the court, like that of the middle-aged man whose crack addiction brings him repeatedly back before the judge. Bogira shows us how the war on drugs is choking the system, and how in most instances justice is dispensed–as, under the circumstances, it must be–rapidly and mindlessly. The stories that unfold in the courtroom are often tragic, but they no longer seem so to the people who work there. Says a deputy in 302: “You hear this stuff every day, and you’re like, ‘Let’s go, let’s go, let’s get this over with and move on to the next thing.’” Steve Bogira is, as Robert Caro says, “a masterful reporter.” His special gift is his understanding of people–and his ability to make us see and understand them. Fast-paced, gripping, and bursting with character and incident, Courtroom 302 is a unique illumination of our criminal court system that raises fundamental issues of race, civil rights, and justice.
Spreitzer V. Schomig
Author: Tried and Convicted
Author: Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442217189
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Impartial Justice
Author: Eric T. KasperPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739177222
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book examines the right to a neutral and detached decisionmaker as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. This right resides in the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees to procedural due process and in the Sixth Amendment’s promise of an impartial jury. Supreme Court cases on these topics are the vehicles to understand how these constitutional rights have come alive. First, the book surveys the right to an impartial jury in criminal cases by telling the stories of defendants whose convictions were overturned after they were the victims of prejudicial pretrial publicity, mob justice, and discriminatory jury selection. Next, the book articulates how our modern notion of judicial impartiality was forged by the Court striking down cases where judges were bribed, where they had other direct financial stakes in the outcome of the case, and where a judge decided the case of a major campaign supporter. Finally, the book traces the development of the right to a neutral decisionmaker in quasi-judicial, non-court settings, including cases involving parole revocation, medical license review, mental health commitments, prison discipline, and enemy combatants. Each chapter begins with the typically shocking facts of these cases being retold, and each chapter ends with a critical examination of the Supreme Court’s ultimate decisions in these cases.
Official Reports of the Supreme Court
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
The Innocence Protection Act of 2002
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Senate Reports
Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1530
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