False confessions and the Constitution: safeguards against untrustworthy confessions
Article Abstract:
Additional procedural safeguards are needed to ensure that criminal confessions are trustworthy because standard police interrogation techniques do result in false confessions in a significant number of cases. The Supreme Court has stated that questions of trustworthiness are not constitutional issues. Empirical evidence of false confessions can be used to determine which interrogation techniques are most prone to yielding false confessions, these techniques can be curbed, and safeguards such as video-taping confessions and restricting access to vulnerable suspects can be enacted.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1997
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At what cost? An argument against mandatory AZT treatment of HIV-positive pregnant women
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Imposing mandatory AZT treatment on HIV-positive pregnant women would establish dangerous precedent favoring state and fetal interests over the privacy and autonomy of pregnant women. Such mandatory treatment would appear to violate substantive due process and equal protection, and laws instituting the practice should be struck down as unconstitutional. The state and fetal interest justifications for mandatory treatment are of marginal merit because most women would pursue treatment and, even without treatment, only 25% of such children become HIV-positive.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1997
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Adversarialism defended: Daubert and the judge's role in evaluating expert evidence
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The author analyzes the Supreme Court's Daubert decision and subsequent cases and refutes the argument that Daubert stands for the Court's approval of independent information-gathering by judges through the use of court-appointed experts. Parts of the adversarial system relevant to this analysis are covered.
Publication Name: Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0010-1923
Year: 2001
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