"Mock" mock juries: a field experiment on the ecological validity of jury simulations.
I. INTRODUCTION In an effort to provide insight for legal and public policy decisionmaking, jury researchers conduct jury simulation experiments because they can be performed in a repeatable and scientific manner, whereas systematic studies of juror behavior are difficult to conduct in situ. (1) Researchers who conduct...

Resolution on EVAT.
THE EVAT law (RA 9337) having been declared constitutional in vesting the President with standby authority to raise the present 10 percent tax rate to 12 percent under certain conditions, the government financial advisers should not be worried by the fact that the government loses R130 million a day...

Admitting mental health evidence to impeach the credibility of a sexual assault complainant.
INTRODUCTION The 1970 edition of Wigmore on Evidence offers the proposition that every female complainant in a rape prosecution should be subject to a psychiatric examination and echoes turn-of-the century psychoanalysts in its explanation: "The unchaste (let us call it) mentality finds incidental but direct expression in...

The lawfulness of the trial.
Much of the recent criticism of the American trial focuses on its perceived "lawlessness."(1) Commentators have accused juries of making decisions based on emotion and prejudice, all the way up to explicit nullification.(2) Reformers have noted the low level of jury comprehension of jury instructions and propose strategies to...

Add students and stir: recipe for a mock trial.
The mock trial has been a mainstay of law and civics classes from fairy tale mock trials for Grade One through trials based on landmark cases to the complex moot trials of law school. And no wonder: the mock trial provides students and teacher an opportunity not only to...

English criminal procedure under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights: implications for custodial interrogation practices.
I. INTRODUCTION In the English legal system, the criminally accused has a general right to a fair trial by a jury of peers. The trial is a rigorous exercise in the regulation of the flow of information from and between the parties, information on which the jury...

Poaching case: Hearing on Salman's bail plea.
(##include msid=2162032,type=11 ##) Salman Khan's bail plea will be heard today (Reuters Photo) JODHPUR: The Bench of Justice H R Pawar will take up on Thursday Bollywood star Salman Khan's bail plea in the chinkara poaching case. The Bench was approached by the...

Salman lawyers race against time for bail.
Byline: Avijit Ghosh JODHPUR: No bail and another night in jail. In a nutshell, that was Salman Khan's disappointing plight on Wednesday. The Bollywood actor's bail application was listed for hearing before Justice Gopal Krishna Vyas who recused himself from the case. This meant there was no...

Making champerty work: an invitation to state action.
INTRODUCTION Genetically, the doctrine of champerty prohibits the sale of the fruit of legal judgement or settlement, in advance of such judgment or settlement, to an otherwise disinterested party. (1) Contemporary scholarship tends to assert that the doctrine is vestigial and on the wane. (2) In pursuit...

Train wreck? Or can the federal sentencing system be saved? A plea for rapid reversal of Blakely v. Washington.
I. BLAKELY V. WASHINGTON AND THE FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES II. "CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS?" III. BLAKELY IN THE FEDERAL COURTS, SO FAR A. Blakely Does Not Apply to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines B. The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Survive, But Must be "Blakely-ized" 1. "Blakely-izing" the Guidelines and the Treatment of...