Criminal Law
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Burdens of Production as Unproductive
Burdens of Production As Unproductive R. George Wright[1]* Introduction The placement of a legal burden of proof can be decisive… Read More
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Posthumous Pardons
12 Wake Forest L. Rev. Online 66 Craig S. Lerner[1] Executive clemency for the dead is not unknown in American… Read More
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Miranda Warnings: A Constitutional Right or Supreme Court “Prophylactic”?
By Cameron Bray On April 20, 2022, attorneys and Justices of the United States Supreme Court sparred over whether Miranda… Read More
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Limiting the Rule of Lenity
12 Wake Forest L. Rev. Online 45 Joshua S. Ha* “The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly,… Read More
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Michelle Carter and Inyoung You: Massachusetts Paving the Way for Criminal Liability in Encouraging Suicide
By Morgan Kleinhandler There is no doubt that the advance of modern technology has allowed for an increase in the… Read More
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Community Caretaking Function: A Doctrinal Overview
By: Nick Christopherson On August 30, 2019, twenty-three year old Elijah McClain died[1] from injuries sustained during a police welfare… Read More
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Raising the Age and Raising the Budget: Why North Carolina’s Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Act Requires Full Funding
Since 1919, North Carolina had treated its sixteen- and seventeen-year-old offenders as adults. On December 1, 2019, after one-hundred years… Read More
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U.S. Jails & Prisons Poorly Positioned to Prevent COVID-19 Spread
By Amanda Manzano The rapid spread of COVID-19 has disrupted business as usual across the globe and created a “new… Read More
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Leap Day’s Lengthy, and Litigious, History
By Nicole Tronolone While for many February 29 is a normal day—simply a quirk of our system of leap-years—for lawyers… Read More
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Death by Distribution in North Carolina
By Paul Fangrow According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (“NIDA”), more than 130 people in the United States… Read More
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Adnan Syed and the Right to Counsel
By Amanda Manzano “That a person who happens to be a lawyer is present at trial alongside the accused, however,… Read More
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As Free as a Bird: The Middle Finger and the First Amendment
By Michael Johnston When Shawn Ellis extended his middle finger while riding in the passenger seat of a vehicle on… Read More