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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite growing public knowledge of false confession cases, research with students and community members continues to find that people assume confessions indicate guilt. The present research explored the implications of belief perseverance: the tendency to maintain a belief even when confronted with compelling contradictory evidence.
Taya D. Henry +2 more
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THE INADMISSIBILITY OF THE COMPLAINT AGAINST THE ORDER ISSUED BY THE SUPERIOR PROSECUTOR IN THE PROCEDURE ESTABLISHED BY ART. 340 OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2022 The national legislation gives the right to the litigant to appeal in case of dissatisfaction with the classification solution that the case prosecutor can issue in the first cycle of the criminal trial.
Alexandru Vladimir OLĂNESCU
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Mental Culpability and Prosecutorial Misconduct [PDF]
, 1998 This Article argues that a prosecutor\u27s intent is always relevant to the courts\u27 analysis of misconduct, and that the courts should always consider a prosecutor\u27s intent in determining whether a rule was violated and whether the verdict was ...
Gershman, Bennett L.
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article considers how victim‐blaming and stereotypical attitudes about appropriate victim behaviour can impact upon the operation of rape trials, particularly by prejudicing a complainant's testimony where s/he can be portrayed as having departed from the stereotypical norm of a ‘real victim’.
Susan Leahy
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The ‘Equality Of Arms’ In Macedonian Criminal Procedure
SEEU Review, 2015 The right to a fair trial is implemented in our criminal procedure and is one of the core values of our criminal justice system. This right is absolute and can’t be limited on any legal base.
Kosevaliska Olga
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Appointment And Legal Career Of A Public Prosecutor In Nigeria: Obstacles And Legal Criteria
KAS African Law Study Library, 2018 One of the greatest challenges to an efficient criminal justice administration in Nigeria is the limitations experienced by the office of the Public Prosecutor.
Ofekeze Okiemute Darlynton
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The Conscience of a Prosecutor [PDF]
, 2010 This essay, a version of the 2010 Tabor Lecture at Valparaiso Law School, examines issues about the role of a prosecutor in the adversary system through the lens of the following question: Should a prosecutor throw a case to avoid keeping men who he ...
Luban, David
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Five Decades of Research on Rape Myths and Victim Interpretation
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past 5 decades of social science research, scholars have examined false narratives and beliefs associated with rape and sexual assault (often called “rape myths”). This scoping review employs an innovative technique to sample and describe a large cohort of scholarly articles that investigate sexual assault victim interpretation and ...
Elizabeth Trudeau, Ruth Carmi
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Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is ...
Christopher Slobogin
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THE BULGARIAN MODEL OF THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE AND PROSECUTOR GENERAL
International scientific journal "Internauka", 2017 The independence of the Prosecutor General of any Member State of the European Union is extremely important with a view to comply with the legal framework and the rule of law. It lays the foundations of trust in the judiciary and the fundaments of statehood, creates a sense of law and legal order.
Venelin Krastev Terziev +2 more
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