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...But when they are, the comparative cases may lack external validity if those factors, indep... in the light of public disapproval, new evidence, or changing conditions. . Stanley Renshon views c... tradition, the values of equal opportunity, civil rights, fighting for working families, a foreign p...
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... categorically cannot be used to show character in order to prove "action in conformity therewith"...: Information about prior crimes is, in most cases, only marginally relevant to rational decisions ab..., in b all hearings, in trials for the civil commitment of the insane, or in sentencing hearing...
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...3d 651 (2009). Considering the new evidence adduced in the District Courthearing, the Co...(2003), clarified that AEDPA applies to cases likePinholster's, the court amended its order but...J.) (characterizing Pinholster's efforts as "habeas-bysandbagging")... See Brieffor American Civil Liberties Union as Amicus Curiae 9("The whole po...
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... Race-Conscious Concerns About the Form of Civil Rights Interventions D. Transporting the Logic of ... Paul Mishkin elucidated the complex character of Justice Powell's reasoning in Bakke, (57) there... an employer needed a strong basis in evidence that the statute was violated before it could thro...
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...: (1) improper admission of prejudicial evidence of the character of the insured; and (2) incorrect... policy are unusual for that genre of cases. The insured, Titus Crumpton (Crumpton), was shot ... of a criminal nature.[fn6] The focus of the civil suit on the insurance policy was the issue of rape...
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... of peace, outlining the main characteristics that would make this notion stand out from the lib...." (27) The peace Rousseau speaks of is the "civil peace," as he names it in the same passage; namely... as Costas Constantinou reminds us, using evidence conveniently ignored in modern thinking on the sta... of liberal peace have mostly treated cases of longstanding, well-established states; conseque...
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... discovered the undisclosed evidence from hisarmed robbery trial. The reviewing court...S. 397, 403 (1997) (collecting cases).Plaintiffs who seek to impose liability on local ... whoseinculpatory or exculpatory character is unknown, andgood-faith failures to turn such... or Office) cannot beheld liable, in a civil rights action under 42 U. S. C. §1983,for the gra...
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... risk of wrongful convictions, empirical evidence has irrefutably shown that wrongful convictions ha...In this Article, we deal not with civil remedies or the like but rather the moral--and con...proceeding in criminal cases in which a defendant seeks to prevent the introduc... English and early American courts characterized a confession as involuntary, what they were really...
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...The Prize Cases B. Wartime Decisions After the Prize Cases 1. Addi... "to proceed against them in either character, according to controlling considerations of policy... was often assumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary. The President's failure to exerci...
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...-security bureaucracies that undermine civil liberties and make it difficult to hold leaders ac... and al-Qaeda, they never produced evidence to back up their claim for the simple reason that ... in attacking the United States, and in some cases were willing to help us thwart al-Qaeda. Enlarging... States was going to change its basic character to solve its terrorism problem. Instead, the Bush ...