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Forum: Reconstituting the Future: An Equality Amendment

functioning democracy as the inheritance of future generations. This proposal reenvisions constitutional equality from the ground up: it centers on rectifying

Vindicating Vindictiveness: Prosecutorial Discretion and Plea Bargaining, Past and Future

two instances in which a judge had imposed a heavier sentence on a defendant who was retried for the same crime after successfully appealing his

From False Evidence Ploy to False Guilty Plea: An Unjustified Path To Securing Convictions

from a Caucasian man. But after a series of interrogations in which he was repeatedly confronted with the fabricated evidence against him, Mr. Gray pled

Forum: Lessons from Lawrence: How “History” Gave Us Dobbs—And How History Can Help Overrule It

question at hand. The next Part explores why the same should be true in a future case advancing the right to abortion. II. lessons from lawrence: how

Legitimacy and Federal Criminal Enforcement Power

under which offenders could secure a significantly earlier release date from a parole board. Beginning in the 1980s, and hastened in the mid-1990s

Federal Sentencing Error as Loss of Chance

decisions, judges stress that the Guidelines are the basis from which sentencing begins. In its since-overturned panel opinion holding the career offender

The De Facto Reporter’s Privilege

chilling effect on newsgathering: sources—and reporters—may find little comfort in knowing that a source’s anonymity is preserved only at a judge’s

Forum: Justice Sotomayor and Criminal Justice in the Real World

defendant’s sentence. . . . To the extent that they create a risk that a defendant might receive a harsher punishment, that risk results from the

Dodd-Frank Is a Pigouvian Regulation

possess an unchecked power to compel newsmen to disclose information received in confidence, sources will clearly be deterred from giving information

Forum: A Humble Justice

mitigate the angry attacks from the press, though no doubt he was pained by them. In a lecture years later, in which he addressed the vitriolic reaction to