ABSTRACT A large portion of the jail population consists of criminal defendants whose guilt
has yet to be established. A growing number of states have attempted to reduce jail …

Prosecutors are the most powerful actors in the American criminal justice
system.'Unfortunately, in exercising that power, prosecutors occasionally 2 cross the line …

Voters were meant to check prosecutors' decisions, but that check has eroded because
voters lack the information necessary to cast meaningful votes in prosecutor elections …

CONSOLIDATING LOCAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE: SHOULD PROSECUTORS CONTROL
THE JAILS? Page 1 CONSOLIDATING LOCAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE: SHOULD …

This Article argues that the line of Supreme Court Sixth Amendment jury right cases that
began with McMillan v Pennsylvania in 1986, crescendoed in Blakely v Washington and …

INTRODUCTION In the early 1960s, a teenager named Frank Johnson appeared in a
municipal court in Texas, where he was found guilty of theft of less than five dollars.'He was …

American and British feminists are torn on how to use expert testimony on Rape Trauma
Syndrome (RTS) in criminal and civil trials to support claims of sexual violation. Introduced …

ABSTRACT A recent Ninth Circuit decision, prohibiting peremptory challenges on the basis
of sexual orientation, reveals the continuing evolution of the Batson doctrine. Meanwhile …

In 1971, President Richard Nixon named drug abuse" public enemy number one" in the
United States. 3 Since that time, an explicit" War on Drugs" has dominated the political …

The distinct flavor of each local prosecutor's office persists in North Carolina despite
unusually strong efforts to centralize and unify the prosecution function across the entire …