{"title":"Ten Years of Court-Supervised Reform: A Chronicle and Assessment","authors":"J. Jacobs, Kristin Stohner","doi":"10.15779/Z38Q327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38Q327","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114172425","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":"Watching Legislatures for Apprendi’s Effects on Plea Bargaining","authors":"Darryl K. Brown","doi":"10.15779/Z38GK76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38GK76","url":null,"abstract":"¶1 In Apprendi v. New Jersey, decided just two years ago, the United States Supreme Court held that any facts that work to increase a criminal defendant’s sentence above the statutory maximum must be treated as elements of the crime, and thus determined by juries, rather than as sentencing factors to be determined by the judge. With this decision, the Court purported to restrict legislatures’ ability to aid law enforcement in circumventing constitutional criminal procedure rules like the criminal burden of proof--thereby aiding criminal defendants. With a recent article in the Yale Law Journal, Stephanos Bibas joined other scholars in observing how easily legislatures can rewrite statutes to avoid Apprendi’s prosecutorial and legislative restrictions, if indeed they are substantive restrictions at all. Uniquely and provocatively, Bibas then argued that Apprendi, as a practical result of its interaction with the other rules and incentives of criminal litigation, will actually hurt criminal defendants, by shifting more power to prosecutors. Bibas argued that Apprendi acts to deprive defendants, who overwhelmingly plead guilty rather than face jury trials, of the only meaningful, real-world hearings they are likely to receive--judicial sentencing hearings.","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116516402","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":"Caleb Foote: A Personal and Loving Remembrance","authors":"R. J. Levy","doi":"10.15779/Z38HW54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38HW54","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128080048","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":"Zimring/Hawkins Citizen's Guide to Gun Control: A Retrospective","authors":"J. Jacobs","doi":"10.15779/Z38028PD4X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38028PD4X","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction ............................................................................... 75 The 1993-94 Brady Law, Assault and Large Capacity Magazine Bans and Violence Against Women Act ........... 104 National Handgun Registration .................................................. 80 Assault Weapon and Large Capacity Magazine Bans ................. 82 Disarming Domestic Abusers .................................................... 85 Policy Predictions...................................................................... 87 The Right to Carry Movement ................................................... 87 2004 Expiration of the Assault Weapon and Large Capacity Magazine Ban ..................................................................... 88 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act ................... 89 2008 Supreme Court’s Intervention ........................................... 90 Failure to Pass Federal Gun Control Legislation AFTER the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre.................. 91 Proliferation of Civilian Handgun Stock .................................... 92 Conclusion ................................................................................ 95","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131854195","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 Admission of Evidence in Domestic Violence Cases after Crawford v. Washington: A National Survey","authors":"J. Leventhal, L. Aldrich","doi":"10.15779/Z389C91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z389C91","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133126061","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":"In Re Lawrence and Hayward v. Marshall: Reexamining the Due Process Protections of California Lifers Seeking Parole","authors":"Blaire Russell","doi":"10.15779/Z38PD1W","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38PD1W","url":null,"abstract":"In California prisons today, approximately 30,000 inmates are serving potential life sentences but are eligible for release on parole after serving minimum terms of confinement. Most of these “lifers” are convicted murderers serving sentences of twenty-five or fifteen years to life. Approximately 4,000 lifers apply for parole each year. The Board of Parole Hearings, the agency within the executive branch responsible for making parole determinations, recommends parole two to five percent of the time. Of that two to five percent, even fewer lifers are actually released. The Governor has the power to approve or disapprove parole recommendations made by the Board of Parole Hearings. During his four years in office, former Governor Gray Davis reviewed 371 parole recommendations and approved parole nine times. Since taking office in late 2003, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been slightly less stringent than Governor Davis, but stringent nonetheless: as","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116087969","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 Ideal Pendulum Swing: From Rhetoric to Reality","authors":"D. Collier","doi":"10.15779/Z38ZW46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38ZW46","url":null,"abstract":"California has been dominated for decades by a criminal justice system that places a strong emphasis on retribution. In other words, the central goal of our criminal justice philosophy has been to punish the offender for his or her \"blameworthy\" behavior. This focus on retributive punishment has led, in turn, to widespread prison overcrowding and revolving-door recidivism. ' However, in recent years the looming threat of court-ordered population caps has caused even \"tough on crime\" policy-makers to think seriously about the implications of retributive policies and practices on public safety and budgetary constraints. 2 Governor Schwarzenegger responded to these pressures in July 2005 by reorganizing the Department of Corrections into the new California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).3","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123616685","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":"Risky Business: Criminal Specialty Courts and the Ethical Obligations of the Zealous Criminal Defender","authors":"T. M. Meekins","doi":"10.15779/Z38NK7X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38NK7X","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, while waiting in the local community courti with a student from the Howard University School of Law Criminal Justice Clinic, 2 1 witnessed a defendant requesting that a new lawyer be appointed to her case. The defendant complained to the judge that her court-appointed lawyer did not tell her what was going on in her case, and that he had been working against her. The judge asked us to take over the case, and we interviewed this new client. With tears streaming down her face, our new client explained that she felt that","PeriodicalId":386851,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113957600","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}