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- 1From:American Criminal Law Review (Vol. 60, Issue 1)The Supreme Court's 2020 landmark decision in Ramos v. Louisiana finally confirmed that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of unanimous verdicts in criminal jury trials against States,...
- 2From:Criminal Justice (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCharles Plymail was convicted of sexual assault in West Virginia in 1993. It took 20 years for his direct appeal to be decided. When you read this, you probably will think it is a typographical error because who ever...
- 3From:Ave Maria Law Review (Vol. 20) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION In 1958, an Army lieutenant (1) was charged with murdering a saloon owner (2) in small-town Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula. His defense attorney (3)--the longtime former county prosecutor and frustrated...
- 4From:University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review (Vol. 80, Issue 1)This article examines the complex relationships between the Canadian jury composition, common law jury secrecy doctrines, and the accuracy of verdicts. Using wrongful convictions research, it advances two arguments: that...
- 5From:Criminal Justice (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the wake of the death of George Floyd in 2020, it is estimated that protests occurred in over 2,000 cities in 60 countries worldwide and that between 15 and 26 million people protested in the United States alone. Two...
- 6From:Notre Dame Law Review (Vol. 96, Issue 3)INTRODUCTION The United States protects its citizens' right to bear arms, but clean water costs extra. Americans enjoy freedoms of religion and speech, vast economic opportunities, and a political voice, yet millions...
- 7From:Criminal Justice (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Issue Many jurors take their responsibilities so seriously that they pray that the verdicts they return in criminal cases are accurate. There does not seem anything wrong with jurors desperately wanting to be...
- 8From:ABA Journal (Vol. 106, Issue 5)In any state outside Oregon or Louisiana, the criminal case against Olan Williams would have ended in a mistrial. In 2016, Williams was found guilty of first-degree oral sodomy in Multnomah County Circuit Court in...
- 9From:Florida Bar Journal (Vol. 93, Issue 6)Most verdicts are logical. The jury either believed the plaintiff's case or didn't and returned a decision reflecting its viewpoint. But sometimes the jury's verdict just doesn't make sense. Like a jilted lover, even the...
- 10From:Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (Vol. 59)"The general verdict is as inscrutable and essentially as mysterious as the judgment which issued from the ancient oracle at Delphi. Both stand on the same foundation--a presumption of wisdom." --Edson R. Sunderland (1)...
- 11From:Strategic Finance (Vol. 100, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe number of confession-of-judgment verdicts in New York State since 2012, enabling merchant cash advance companies to seize an estimated $1.5 billion from small businesses. Source: Bloomberg, December 6, 2018,...
- 12From:Trial (Vol. 55, Issue 2)A verdict for your client may not be the end of your case--sometimes, it is a ticket to a court of appeals. Following these seven steps can safeguard that verdict. 1. Start at the beginning. Chart your course from...
- 13From:Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies (Vol. 9, Issue 26) Peer-ReviewedThe paper discusses the context, substance and likely implications of the European Court of Human Rights' very recent but, in our view, historic decision in the case of Lautsi v. Italy. The article offers an outline of...
- 14From:Internal Medicine News (Vol. 39, Issue 18)Despite the fact that his client had already confessed to the murder in question, a lawyer in the unfortunately named Licking County, Ohio, has filed an appeal on the basis that a lack of cigarette breaks for the jurors...
- 15From:Duke Law Journal (Vol. 64, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The finality of jury verdicts reflects an implicit societal acceptance of the soundness of the jury's decision. Regardless, jurors are not infallible, and the questions they are often tasked with deciding...
- 16From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 97, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTwelve jurors retire into a closed room to deliberate on the verdict in a felony trial. After they elect a foreman and discuss the evidence, their individual positions begin to emerge. Nine jurors feel strongly that the...
- 17From:The Regan Report on Hospital Law (Vol. 39, Issue 8)CASE ON POINT: Altman v. Alpha Obstetrics and Gynecology, 679 N.Y.S.2d 642 - NY (1998) ISSUE: It is not unusual for a defendant against whom a verdict or judgment is entered to appeal on the grounds that the verdict...
- 18From:Defense Counsel Journal (Vol. 73, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPRODUCTS LIABILITY, which has its origins in both tort and contract law, typically covers any liability of a manufacturer or a seller of a product where that product's defect results in personal injury or property...
- 19From:Clinician Reviews (Vol. 21, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedA Massachusetts woman, age 43, presented to her physician's office complaining of a throbbing headache that had worsened progressively over the previous 48 hours. She was seen by a covering physician to whom she...
- 20From:Criminal Justice and Behavior (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA mock insanity defense trial was presented to 327 college students who were then asked to render a verdict under two conditions: with and without the "guilty but mentally ill" (GBMI) verdict option being available....