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Duquesne Criminal Law Journal

Introduction

From the Introduction to Volume 1 Issue 1:
"This publication is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in the field of law in which the contours of "justice" are most profoundly defined. -- Bruce A. Antkowiak"

Contents

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Table of Contents Issue 1
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Articles

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If an Incompetent Criminal Defendant Shows That Counsel was Ineffective and Did Not Follow Reasonable Professional Standards, the Conviction Will Be Reversed and Remanded in Order to Provide Further Proceedings on His Competency: Hummel v. Rosemeyer
Gillian Pavlek

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75 Pa. Cons. Stat. Sec. 3802 (a)(1) is a While Driving Offense: Commonwealth v. Segida
Allison Lachat

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Defendant Must Prove That Mental Retardation Existed before the Age of Eighteen in Order to Be Protected from the Death Penalty: Commonwealth v. Vandivner, A
William Grant

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Criminal RICO Enterprise via Salerno, Milken, and Cianci, The
Benjamin Zev Koblentz

Decisions

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Under the Independent Source Doctrine, Evidence Uncovered in a Search Will Not Be Suppressed When the Search Warrant, Excised of Any Previously Illegally Obtained Evidence, Contains Probable Cause: United States v. Price
Kristine Malmgren Yeater

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Commonwealth May Involuntarily Administer Antipsychotic Medication to Inmates to Render Them Competent to Participate in Post Conviction Relief Act Proceedings: Commonwealth v. Sam
Joseph M. Stichler

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Warrantless Arrests Based on Probable Cause and Subsequent Searches Incident to Those Arrests Do Not Violate the Fourth Amendment: Virginia v. Moore
Brian Walsh

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Capital Punishment for the Rape of a Child is Cruel and Unusual Punishment under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution: Kennedy v. Louisiana
Brian Lucot

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Habeas Corpus Relief Will Not Be Granted to American Citizens Seeking to Avoid Prosecution in Foreign Sovereign Nations: Munaf v. Geren
Ryan Duty

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Courts are Permitted to Reject and Vary Categorically from the Crack Cocaine U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Based on Policy Disagreements with Those Guidelines: Spears v. United States
Michael C. Kilmer