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Category Archives: Court Proceedings
Reliability of Assault Victim’s Accounts
The Reliability of Assault Victims’ Immediate Accounts: Evidence from Trauma Studies by Melissa Hamilton (Stanford Law & Policy Review, forthcoming) discusses the excited utterance, present sense exception, and statements about mental and medical conditions exceptions to the hearsay rule when the … Continue reading
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Parents Helping Parents in the System
So often, once a child is put into the juvenile system — whether as a CHINS or a juvenile delinquent — the parents are swept to the side as others make decisions about what is best for the child and … Continue reading
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NACDL Report on Discovery Violations
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) released a report based on a study of discovery violations, “Material Indifference: How Courts are Impeding Fair Disclosure in Criminal Cases,” which was “produced jointly with the VERITAS Initiative at Santa Clara Law School.”
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Procedural Justice — Building a Better Experience in Court
Rather than focusing only on the outcome of a juvenile delinquency case, what if the focus was also on the perceived fairness of the process? The theory of procedural fairness or procedural justice relies on the premise that a person … Continue reading
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