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From:Trial (Vol. 31, Issue 4)Abuse by the parents is increasingly being used by children imprisoned for parricide in their efforts to seek clemency. In Dec 1994 one woman was released after serving 20 years for murdering her adoptive parents and a...
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 38, Issue 3)People who commit a crime and are brought before a court to be sentenced expect to face a prison term or at least probation, and perhaps a fine. If this is their first brush with the justice system, they have a general...
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From:American Journal of International Law (Vol. 113, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed
Inter-American Court of Human Rights - presidential pardon - anti-impunity - conventionality control
CASE OF BARRIOS ALTOS AND LA CANTUTA V. PERU, Monitoring Compliance with Judgment. At http://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/supervisiones/barriosaltos_lacantuta_30_05_18.pdf. Inter-American Court of Human Rights, May 30,... -
From:Counseling and Values (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis study was completed for 2 purposes: to explore how people use and conceptualize interpersonal forgiveness and to introduce the Forgiveness Attitudes Questionnaire (FAQ), an instrument designed to explore...
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From:American Criminal Law Review (Vol. 39, Issue 3)I. INTRODUCTION "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."--John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton (1) Executive clemency exists to serve the public...
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From:Washington University Law Review (Vol. 96, Issue 4)INTRODUCTION Special Counsel Robert Mueller is conducting an investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election and the possible coordination and cooperation with the Donald Trump presidential...
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From:TD Magazine (Vol. 73, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe United States has a large and bureaucratic military that is facing an ever-evolving battlefield. That is not an ideal environment to foster creativity innovation. But U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Robert Neller is...
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From:Corrections Caselaw QuarterlyGarner v. Jones 120 S.Ct. 1362 (2000). An inmate challenged the constitutionality of the scheduling of his parole hearings. The district court dismissed the case as frivolous but the appeals court reversed in part and...
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From:American Criminal Law Review (Vol. 46, Issue 4)INTRODUCTION What do a Secretary of Defense, a paramilitary organization, and a commodities trader have in common? No, this is not a riddle, there's really an answer. If you guessed that they were all pardoned,...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 18, Issue 2)NORFOLK, VA. Kemba Smith, who spent six years in prison and was pardoned by President Clinton in December, told college students at Norfolk State University last month that drug life kills. "What sparkles on the...
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From:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedExecutive clemency includes granting of pardons, reprieves, and other manifestation of clemency power. The Constitution vests the US President with the discretionary power to exercise executive clemency for offenses...
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From:Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGood afternoon. Let me join my colleagues in thanking the Journal for putting on such a timely and exciting conference. I also want to express my gratitude to the Journal and to Professor Medina for inviting me....
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From:Washington University Law Review (Vol. 98, Issue 5)INTRODUCTION In 2018, Steve Cheatham was serving his prison sentence for three bank robberies. (1) That fall, Steve was diagnosed with advanced-stage cancer. (2) Steve petitioned the Bureau of Prisons ("BOP") for...
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From:Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT James Madison once reflected that the great difficulty of government is to first enable it to "control the governed" and next "oblige it to control itself" (1) His most famous phrase "ambition must be made to...
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From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 100, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFor most of our nation's history, the president's constitutional pardon power has been used with generosity and regularity to correct systemic injustices and to advance the executive's policy goals. Since 1980, however,...
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From:Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (Vol. 31, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThe clemency power of the U.S. President is limited to pardoning federal offences and expressly excludes federal impeachment from the pardon power. There is no explicit prohibition upon who might be the recipient of a...
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From:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBefore Watergate, presidents were generally reluctant to pardon executive branch officials after their administrations had been investigated by an outside prosecutor. Since Watergate, however, presidents are less...
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From:Monash University Law Review (Vol. 46, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe prerogative of mercy is an ancient power to forgive, or temper the punishment of, a legal wrong. In the Middle Ages in England, and later in colonial Australia, it was regularly used to spare the lives of persons...
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From:Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI. THE CURIOUS CASE OF PRESIDENTIAL SELF-PARDONS November and December bring the onset of winter, the promise of Thanksgiving turkeys and hams, the anticipation of gifts at Christmas or Hanukkah, and the issuance of...
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From:American Journalism Review (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA member of former President Bill Clinton's staff called Washington Post reporter John F. Harris the afternoon of Saturday, February 17 to give him a tip. Clinton, under fire for suspect last-minute pardons of...