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The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Author : John J. Hare
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271081996
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania written by John J. Hare and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1684, over a century before the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is the oldest appellate court in North America. This balanced, comprehensive history of the Court examines over three centuries of legal proceedings and cases before the body, the controversies and conflicts with which it dealt, and the impact of its decisions and of the case law its justices created Introduced by constitutional scholar Ken Gormley, this volume describes the Supreme Court’s structure and powers and focuses at length on the Court’s work in deciding notable cases of constitutional law, civil rights, torts, criminal law, labor law, and administrative law. Through three sections, “The Structure and Powers of the Supreme Court,” “Decisional Law of the Supreme Court,” and “Reporting Supreme Court Decisions,” the contributors address the many ways in which the Court and its justices have shaped life and law in Pennsylvania and beyond. They consider how it has adjudicated new and complex issues arising from some of the most notable events and tragedies in American history, including the struggle for religious liberty in colonial Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War, slavery, the Johnstown Flood, the Homestead Steel Strike and other labor conflicts, both World Wars, and, more recently, the dramatic rise of criminal procedural rights and the expansion of tort law. Featuring an afterword by Chief Justice Saylor and essays by leading jurists, deans, law and history professors, and practicing attorneys, this fair-minded assessment of the Court is destined to become a criterion volume for lawmakers, scholars, and anyone interested in legal history in the Keystone State and the United States.

Pennsylvania's Criminal Justice System

Author : Mary P. Brewster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611634600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Pennsylvania's Criminal Justice System written by Mary P. Brewster and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pennsylvania's Criminal Justice System provides a comprehensive overview of the crime trends, criminal law, and the criminal and juvenile justice processes within the Commonwealth. The text describes the structure and role of the state's federal, state, and local level police, courts, and corrections agencies. Also addressed in the book are crime victim services within Pennsylvania, as well as the important rights afforded to victims through the Crime Victim's Act and other legislation. This text affords the undergraduate student reader a deep understanding of the structure and processes of Pennsylvania's criminal justice system - far beyond that which can be provided by a generic, non- state-specific text. The book is also an excellent resource for law students who anticipate practicing within the Commonwealth.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590318737
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

The Deviant Prison

Author : Ashley T. Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108484948
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Deviant Prison written by Ashley T. Rubin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling examination of the highly criticized use of long-term solitary confinement in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary during the nineteenth century.

Troublesome Women

Author : Erica Rhodes Hayden
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271084243
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Troublesome Women written by Erica Rhodes Hayden and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the lived experiences of women lawbreakers in the state of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1860 through the records of more than six thousand criminal court cases. By following these women from the perpetration of their crimes through the state’s efforts to punish and reform them, Erica Rhodes Hayden places them at the center of their own stories. Women constituted a small percentage of those tried in courtrooms and sentenced to prison terms during the nineteenth century, yet their experiences offer valuable insight into the era’s criminal justice system. Hayden illuminates how criminal punishment and reform intersected with larger social issues of the time, including questions of race, class, and gender, and reveals how women prisoners actively influenced their situation despite class disparities. Hayden’s focus on recovering the individual experiences of women in the criminal justice system across the state of Pennsylvania marks a significant shift from studies that focus on the structure and leadership of penal institutions and reform organizations in urban centers. Troublesome Women advances our understanding of female crime and punishment in the antebellum period and challenges preconceived notions of nineteenth-century womanhood. Scholars of women’s history and the history of crime and punishment, as well as those interested in Pennsylvania history, will benefit greatly from Hayden’s thorough and fascinating research.

The Machinery of Criminal Justice

Author : Stephanos Bibas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190236760
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Machinery of Criminal Justice written by Stephanos Bibas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries ago, American criminal justice was run primarily by laymen. Jury trials passed moral judgment on crimes, vindicated victims and innocent defendants, and denounced the guilty. But since then, lawyers have gradually taken over the process, silencing victims and defendants and, in many cases, substituting plea bargaining for the voice of the jury. The public sees little of how this assembly-line justice works, and victims and defendants have largely lost their day in court. As a result, victims rarely hear defendants express remorse and apologize, and defendants rarely receive forgiveness. This lawyerized machinery has purchased efficient, speedy processing of many cases at the price of sacrificing softer values, such as reforming defendants and healing wounded victims and relationships. In other words, the U.S. legal system has bought quantity at the price of quality, without recognizing either the trade-off or the great gulf separating lawyers' and laymen's incentives, values, and powers. In The Machinery of Criminal Justice, author Stephanos Bibas surveys the developments over the last two centuries, considers what we have lost in our quest for efficient punishment, and suggests ways to include victims, defendants, and the public once again. Ideas range from requiring convicts to work or serve in the military, to moving power from prosecutors to restorative sentencing juries. Bibas argues that doing so might cost more, but it would better serve criminal procedure's interests in denouncing crime, vindicating victims, reforming wrongdoers, and healing the relationships torn by crime.

Model Code of Judicial Conduct

Author : American Bar Association
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590318393
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Model Code of Judicial Conduct written by American Bar Association and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pennsylvania State Manual

Author : Pennsylvania
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Pennsylvania State Manual written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rebooting Justice

Author : Benjamin H. Barton
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594039348
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Rebooting Justice written by Benjamin H. Barton and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is a nation founded on justice and the rule of law. But our laws are too complex, and legal advice too expensive, for poor and even middle-class Americans to get help and vindicate their rights. Criminal defendants facing jail time may receive an appointed lawyer who is juggling hundreds of cases and immediately urges them to plead guilty. Civil litigants are even worse off; usually, they get no help at all navigating the maze of technical procedures and rules. The same is true of those seeking legal advice, like planning a will or negotiating an employment contract. Rebooting Justice presents a novel response to longstanding problems. The answer is to use technology and procedural innovation to simplify and change the process itself. In the civil and criminal courts where ordinary Americans appear the most, we should streamline complex procedures and assume that parties will not have a lawyer, rather than the other way around. We need a cheaper, simpler, faster justice system to control costs. We cannot untie the Gordian knot by adding more strands of rope; we need to cut it, to simplify it.

Ohlbaum on the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence

Author : Edward D. Ohlbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781522166887
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Ohlbaum on the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence written by Edward D. Ohlbaum and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Autopsy of a Crime Lab

Author : Brandon L. Garrett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520976630
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Autopsy of a Crime Lab written by Brandon L. Garrett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions. "That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification." The FBI was wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms. In this devastating forensic takedown, noted legal expert Brandon L. Garrett poses the questions that should be asked in courtrooms every day: Where are the studies that validate the basic premises of widely accepted techniques such as fingerprinting? How can experts testify with 100-percent certainty about a fingerprint, when there is no such thing as a 100 percent match? Where is the quality control at the crime scenes and in the laboratories? Should we so readily adopt powerful new technologies like facial recognition software and rapid DNA machines? And why have judges been so reluctant to consider the weaknesses of so many long-accepted methods? Taking us into the lives of the wrongfully convicted or nearly convicted, into crime labs rocked by scandal, and onto the front lines of promising reform efforts driven by professionals and researchers alike, Autopsy of a Crime Lab illustrates the persistence and perniciousness of shaky science and its well-meaning practitioners.

Pocket Guide to Pennsylvania Criminal Laws

Author : Pocket Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781884493560
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Pocket Guide to Pennsylvania Criminal Laws written by Pocket Press and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pocket Guide to Pennsylvania Traffic Laws

Author : Pocket Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781884493614
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Pocket Guide to Pennsylvania Traffic Laws written by Pocket Press and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Criminal Justice in Pennsylvania

Author : Ellen G. Cohn
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780131701663
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Justice in Pennsylvania written by Ellen G. Cohn and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-specific guide to criminal justice includes comprehensive coverage of criminal law and the courts, the police, corrections and the juvenile justice system. Also included are state-specific crime statistics as well as coverage of sentencing, drugs and crime and capital punishment.

SOU-CCJ230 Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System

Author : Alison Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781636350684
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book SOU-CCJ230 Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System written by Alison Burke and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Directory of Automated Criminal Justice Information Systems

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Directory of Automated Criminal Justice Information Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Criminal Law Digest of Pennsylvania

Author : Pennsylvania
Publisher : Gould Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780875262376
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Law Digest of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and published by Gould Publications. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains sections of various Pennsylvania laws which are used by personnel in the Criminal Justice System. Includes pertinent sections from the Child Protective Services Law; Cigarette Tax; Dog Law; Domestic Violence & Rape Victims Services; Explosives; Fire Police; Game; Juvenile Act; Lethal Weapons Training Act; Liquor Code; Mental Health Procedures Act; Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, etc.