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… 59852 words Author: Paul G. Cassell* * Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law of the University of Utah, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, 2002-07. Thanks to Sara Sun Beale, Doug Beloof, Doug Berman, Russell Butler, Matt Cannon, Meg Garvin, Nancy King,...

…o, and was bound by Second Circuit law, not District of Columbia law, which was applied by the other district court. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1407; Fed.Rules Civ.Proc.Rule 12(b), 28 U.S.C.A. 2. International Law O10.38 Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), a foreign state and i...

…a note 3 and accompanying text. 2 Crime Victims' Rights Act, Pub. L. No. 108-405, 118 Stat. 2261 (2004) (codified at 18 U.S.C.A. 3771 (West 2004 & Supp. 2005)). The CVRA was part of a much larger piece of legislation that addressed a variety of subjects, known as the "Justice for...

…5 th Judicial Circuit- Palm Beach County Florida 401 North Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Dexter Lee Assistant U.S. Attorney Southern District of Florida 99 N.E. 4th Street Miami, FL 33132 Dated: New York, New York 4848-4442-5859v. l 3930033-000039 3 January 11, 2019 Swo...

…em that springs to mind for American criminal justice. But in fact, some of the prominent contemporary complaints about U.S. criminal justice, as well as some longstanding ones, object to underenforcement of criminal law. Two of the most notable categories are failures to prosecu...

…RNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINOLOGY Vol. 104, No. 1 Copyright © 2014 by Northwestern University School of Law Printed in U.S.A. CRIME VICTIMS’ RIGHTS DURING CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS? APPLYING THE CRIME VICTIMS’ RIGHTS ACT BEFORE CRIMINAL CHARGES ARE FILED PAUL G. CASSELL* NATHANAEL...

…and Nila Lynn Crime Victims' Rights Act, Pub. L. No. 108-405, 118 Stat. 2260, 2261-65 (2004) (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. § 3771 (2012) and 42 U.S.C. § 10603(d)-(e) (2006)). 2 The Availability of Crime Victims' Rights Under the Crime Victims' Rights Act of 2004, 35 Op. O.L.C...

…al role in protecting the men and women of our Armed Forces and our country's defense. Formerly a sailor himself in the U.S. Navy, he has served for the last 11 years as the general manager of Raytheon Missile Systems operations in Louisville. I was saddened to hear of his retire...

…n revealed his responsibility for what would turn out to be the largest theft of top-secret documents in the history of U.S. intelligence. In the video, Snowden was questioned by Glenn Greenwald, an American journalist living in Brazil who had broken the NSA story in the Guard...

…onouncements and should not be countenanced. That is all the more true under the circumstances where the duly appointed U.S. Attorney opined that, in effect, the "unitary" Executive Branch was driving this prosecution. We now know that is not so. What I respectfully request, and...

…ent Bill Clinton, Former Vice President Al Gore and/or Mary Elizabeth “Tipper” Gore on Little Saint James Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.” See Exhibit 6, Request no. 24. Whether or not Jane Doe No. 3 met any of these individuals has absolutely nothing to do with the action bef...

…actions when they refuse to testify in response to probative evidence offered against them." Baxter v. Paltnigiano, 425 U.S. 308, 318 (1976); accord Vasquez v. State, 777 So.2d 1200, 1203 (Fla. App. 2001). The reason for this rule "is both logical and utilitarian. A party may not...

…high-powered legal counsel brokered on his behalf. According the agreement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney's Office investigated Epstein for various federal crimes, including prostitution, some punishable by a minimum of 10 years up to life in prison Bu...

…05 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 835, *913 clearly apply to victims. Illustrative of these decisions is the thoughtful analysis by the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska in Bothwell v. Republic Tobacco Co. 3!? Bothwell presented four grounds for its holding that courts have inhere...

2014] CRIME VICTIMS’ RIGHTS 73 C. COURTS RECOGNIZE THAT CRIME VICTIMS HAVE CVRA RIGHTS BEFORE CHARGING Because crime victims lack a right to appointed counsel, many victims have difficulty litigating the scope of their rights. But in a few cases, victims have been able to secur...