Criminal Justice Spring 2024

Features

Criminal

Let the Sunshine in: Open the Doors to Closed Juvenile Sessions

Jay Blitzman

It is possible to have transparency while also protecting confidentiality and advancing due process and fairness by opening up the closed doors of juvenile sessions. More harm than good has been done behind closed doors.

Children's Rights

A Canary in the Coal Mine: Juvenile Records and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

Andrew R. Keats

This article scrutinizes the juvenile legal system’s historical commitment to rehabilitating young people and addresses the harms caused by juvenile records to highlight concerns with opening up records to combat gun violence.

Criminal

Charles J. Ogletree Jr.: A Humble Civil Rights Defender and Public Theologian

Willie J. Epps Jr., Angela J. Davis, and Roger A. Fairfax Jr.

Reflections on the life of Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a civil rights scholar, public theologian, author, and trial lawyer, are provided by three of his colleagues and friends.

Criminal

Conviction Review Today: The Role of Prosecutors

Kristine Hamann

The article provides an overview of the various ways that prosecutors, from all sized offices, are addressing conviction review.

Technology

Security as a Superstition: The Constitution as a Potential Ritual

Nina-Simone Edwards

This article, using the example of a woman who is potentially violating her state’s abortion ban, analyzes the constitutional protections one has over communicative evidence.

Civil Rights & Constitution

Steps to Uncovering Bias: Talking with Prospective Jurors about Racism

Heather Pruss and Marla Sandys

How justice-driven officers of the court can address issues of racial bias at jury selection to reduce the likelihood of its impact during deliberations is discussed.

From the Chair

Criminal

Task Force of Strategic Visioning

Tina Luongo

CJS Chair Tina Luongo discusses critical takeaways from the Task Force on Strategic Visioning’s recent full membership survey.

Book Review

Criminal

Recent Reads

Jolie Zangari

Several books, including Model Witness Examinations, 5th Edition and The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence, are reviewed.

Cert Alert

Criminal

Supreme Court Cases of Interest

Joel S. Johnson

A summary of the Supreme Court’s recent criminal law opinions and cert grants to date is provided for our readers.

Guest Column

Criminal

A Husband-and-Wife Espionage Case: The Prosecutor’s Perspective

Jarod J. Douglas

A husband and wife have been convicted of trying to sell submarine secrets in a case that highlights challenges to achieving particularized punishment. The prosecutor offers advice.

Guest Column

Human Rights

Reckoning with the Past Is the Only Way to Achieve a Just Society

Jim Hingeley and Miriam Aroni Krinsky

Legal systems worldwide can be complicit in perpetuating injustice. Elected leaders must learn from and rectify past wrongs and combat new attempts to foster hate.

Guest Column

Criminal

Protecting the Plea Bargaining Process against Judicial Breaches

Andrew Beshai

Given the outsized role that plea agreements play in the criminal justice system, protecting the integrity of the plea bargaining process is of utmost importance.

Mental Health

Criminal

Observing the Forensic Mental Health Examination: When Is Three a Crowd?

Eric Y. Drogin

The author describes how a prosecutor might consult with a mental health professional when the time comes to decide who should or should not observe an examination.

Public Defense

Congress Must Act to Protect Federal Public Defense

Mark Pickett

Congress is considering a spending bill that would drastically cut the federal public defense budget, causing a potential for disaster.

Trial Tactics

Criminal

Alternate Suspects and the Privilege against Self-Incrimination

Stephen A. Saltzburg

When the defendant suggests that someone else committed the charged crime, how should counsel proceed when the alternate suspect indicates an intent to rely upon the privilege against self-incrimination?

Section News

Criminal

Fall Institute Highlights

Kyo Suh

Updates on recent CJS events, podcasts, publications, and member news are provided for member review.

Renew Your ABA Membership

Criminal Justice Spring 2024

Representing People Charged with Crimes Associated with Being Pregnant

Features

Let the Sunshine in: Open the Doors to Closed Juvenile Sessions

A Canary in the Coal Mine: Juvenile Records and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

Charles J. Ogletree Jr.: A Humble Civil Rights Defender and Public Theologian

Conviction Review Today: The Role of Prosecutors

Security as a Superstition: The Constitution as a Potential Ritual

Steps to Uncovering Bias: Talking with Prospective Jurors about Racism

From the Chair

Task Force of Strategic Visioning

Book Review

Recent Reads

Cert Alert

Supreme Court Cases of Interest

Guest Column

A Husband-and-Wife Espionage Case: The Prosecutor’s Perspective

Guest Column

Reckoning with the Past Is the Only Way to Achieve a Just Society

Guest Column

Protecting the Plea Bargaining Process against Judicial Breaches

Mental Health

Observing the Forensic Mental Health Examination: When Is Three a Crowd?

Public Defense

Congress Must Act to Protect Federal Public Defense

Trial Tactics

Alternate Suspects and the Privilege against Self-Incrimination

Section News

Fall Institute Highlights

Autism and the Prison Experience

White Collar Crime Symposium

ABA Resources

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Criminal Justice Spring 2024

Representing People Charged with Crimes Associated with Being Pregnant

Features

Let the Sunshine in: Open the Doors to Closed Juvenile Sessions

A Canary in the Coal Mine: Juvenile Records and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

Charles J. Ogletree Jr.: A Humble Civil Rights Defender and Public Theologian

Conviction Review Today: The Role of Prosecutors

Security as a Superstition: The Constitution as a Potential Ritual

Steps to Uncovering Bias: Talking with Prospective Jurors about Racism

From the Chair

Task Force of Strategic Visioning

Book Review

Recent Reads

Cert Alert

Supreme Court Cases of Interest

Guest Column

A Husband-and-Wife Espionage Case: The Prosecutor’s Perspective

Guest Column

Reckoning with the Past Is the Only Way to Achieve a Just Society

Guest Column

Protecting the Plea Bargaining Process against Judicial Breaches

Mental Health

Observing the Forensic Mental Health Examination: When Is Three a Crowd?

Public Defense

Congress Must Act to Protect Federal Public Defense

Trial Tactics

Alternate Suspects and the Privilege against Self-Incrimination

Section News

Fall Institute Highlights

Autism and the Prison Experience

White Collar Crime Symposium

ABA Resources

The ABA

Connect