{"title":"The Problem With Cynical Prosecutor's Syndrome: Rethinking A Prosecutor's Role in Post-Conviction Cases","authors":"Laurie L. Levenson","doi":"10.15779/Z38056D","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38056D","url":null,"abstract":"One of the biggest challenges facing the criminal justice system is dealing with the growing tide of post-conviction petitions claiming wrongful conviction. Each year, the number of exonerees grows. In 2014, the United States recorded an unprecedented 125 exonerations. In analyzing how post-conviction matters are handled, it becomes apparent that one of the key roadblocks to remedying these injustices is not, as some have suggested, the attitude of young prosecutors. Rather, senior prosecutors become cynical about innocence claims and form a cognitive bias that impairs their ability to play a constructive role in the exoneration process. This article discusses the role of prosecutors in the post-conviction process, analyzes current studies of prosecutorial","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126892526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Congressional Gamesmanship Leads To An Acquittal In Deepwater Horizon Case , United States v. David Rainey: A Case Study","authors":"Brian M. Heberlig","doi":"10.15779/Z383V98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z383V98","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126943535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redressing Transgression: In Defense of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Child Pornography Possession","authors":"M. Smolen","doi":"10.15779/Z38561F","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38561F","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116315885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hawai’i Girls Court: Juveniles, Gender, and Justice","authors":"Tamar Lerer","doi":"10.15779/Z381C98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z381C98","url":null,"abstract":"At the Hawai’i Girls Court, everyone is female. The presiding judge is female, the probation officers are female, the program coordinators are female and, of course, the clientele is female. The Court, a diversionary program for juvenile females in Hawai’i, is just one gender-responsive program in the juvenile justice system—interest in and availability of such programming is increasing. But even though gender-responsive programs are promoted and funded by federal and local governments and the private sector, legal scholars have yet to undertake any searching examination of the programs’","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"338 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124754455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Unusual Punishment: A Call for Congress to Abolish the Death Penalty Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for Unique Military, Non-Homicide Offenses","authors":"Richard E. Federico","doi":"10.15779/Z388W49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z388W49","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131639981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Kids Aren't Alright: An Argument to Use the Nation Building Model in the Development of Native Juvenile Justice Systems to Combat the Effects of Failed Assimilative Policies","authors":"R. Seelau","doi":"10.15779/Z38JC9F","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38JC9F","url":null,"abstract":"Digitized from a Special Collections copy at the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona.","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116848380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Punishment Without Conviction: Controlling The Use of Unconvicted Conduct in Federal Sentencing","authors":"G. Leonard, Christine Dieter","doi":"10.15779/Z382D08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z382D08","url":null,"abstract":"Federal sentencing law is widely applied to punish offenders not only for the offenses of which they have been convicted, but also, in the same proceeding, for offenses of which they have not been convicted. Unlike many scholars, we accept that federal courts can, in the right circumstances, legitimately enhance sentences for facts and conduct found at sentencing, even when those facts and conduct constitute uncharged offenses or even charges on which the defendant actually won an acquittal. But we argue that in identifiable cases, the use of such sentencing facts does cross the line from appropriate contextualization of the offense of conviction to punishment for a separate offense of which the defendant has never been convicted. We demonstrate that crossing this line contravenes the Sentencing Reform Act, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, and the Constitution. We then offer a principle and a mode of analysis for ensuring that courts punish only for offenses of conviction, even as they do substantial fact-finding at sentencing. We examine cases of federal sentencing for second-degree murder to explain how this principle works and then explain the benefits and challenges of applying the principle more generally.","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117244397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Out of the Principal's Office and Into the Courtroom: How Should California Approach Criminal Remedies for School Bullying","authors":"Tracy Tefertiller","doi":"10.15779/Z38C032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38C032","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION School bullying is a hot-button issue. A recent spate of highprofile teen \"bullycides\" '-suicides by students who are apparently driven to kill themselves in response to relentless bullying by their peers-has spawned a nationwide outpouring of outrage and 2 sympathy, accompanied by vocal demands for schools and law enforcement to \"get tough\" on bullies.3 Books and articles about the dangers of bullying have proliferated in the popular press, decrying","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131515622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where We are with Location Tracking: A Look at the Current Technology and the Implications on Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence","authors":"I. Herbert","doi":"10.15779/Z38Q913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38Q913","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126169190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hard Lessons: The Role of Law Schools in Addressing Prosecutorial Misconduct","authors":"L. Bazelon","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1803540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1803540","url":null,"abstract":"This Article approaches prosecutorial misconduct from a pedagogical perspective by exploring the ways in which law school clinicians can teach their students how to confront the problem proactively and in-the-moment, with an eye toward reducing its rate of occurrence and blunting its corrosive effect. Prosecutorial misconduct is a serious problem that strikes at the heart of a criminal defendant’s constitutional right to a fair trial. More broadly, it has the potential to impact the integrity of the criminal justice system as a whole. Educating law school students in criminal clinics about this issue before they become prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys serves three important goals. First, such instruction can act as preventative medicine by reducing the likelihood that future prosecutors will step over the line out of ignorance of the applicable case law and court rules or out of a misplaced desire to win at all costs. Second, it enables future defense counsel to develop litigation methods designed to prevent the problem from occurring in the first instance. Third, it can prepare defense counsel to recognize prosecutorial misconduct that proves unpreventable so that she is able to respond effectively in-the-moment rather than belatedly, after the harm has been done. The blended learning approach that is the signature pedagogy of the clinical classroom is well-suited to addressing prosecutorial misconduct because it provides an opportunity for students to engage in a frank and thoughtful dissection of the legal and ethical issues that are inextricably bound up with it. The model I propose combines instruction in black letter law, ethics, and skills acquisition. It also seeks to have clinicians model the process of analyzing and responding to prosecutorial misconduct using examples from their real world experiences. With this approach, students will learn to think critically about their roles and responsibilities as future prosecutors and defense attorneys and to develop sound professional judgment before they enter the whirlwind of practice.","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129038972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}