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How TO CONDUCT A CRIMINAL CASE (3d ed.). By William Harman Black. Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York, 1935. Pp. lxxvi, 483. Price: $6.50. This work describes in chronological form the various legal stages through which a criminal case may pass under New York criminal procedure from the commission of the crime to the execution of the sentence or the acquittal of the defendant. The author is Honorable...

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from mistakes and learn from experience, to engage in logical reasoning, to control impulses, and to understand the reactions of others . . . . Their deficiencies do not warrant an exemption from criminal sanctions, but they do diminish their personal culpability . . . . With respect to retribution—the interest in seeing that the offender gets his “just deserts”—the severity of the appropriate ...

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