Validity of the admission-confession distinction for purposes of admissibility.

False confessions, expert testimony, and admissibility.

The confession of a criminal defendant serves as a prosecutor's most compelling piece of evidence during trial. Courts must preserve a defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial while upholding the judicial interests of presenting competent and reliable evidence to the jury. When a defendant seeks to challenge the validity of that confession through expert testimony, the prosecution often...

Recent Developments Criminal Law: Second Circuit Holds Cautionary Instructions Insufficient to Cure Potential Prejudice Resulting from Admission of Co-conspirator's Confession

United States v. Bozza' has seemingly departed from the heretofore existing rule that a proper cautionary instruction in a multi-defendant trial can cure the prejudicial effect of one defendant's out-ofcourt confession on co-defendants. The appellants were convicted of various crimes related to the burglary of several post offices and the subsequent receipt and transportation of stolen stamps. ...

Admissibility of false-confession testimony: know thy standard.

The reliability of confessions is subject to a variety of factors, some of which give rise to expert testimony. To the degree that prosecutors construe the determination of reliability as an objective standard, they may attempt to bar testimony. Moreover, when the testimony is theoretical rather than clinical, there are additional challenges. Depending on jurisdiction, the admissibility of expe...

The (In)Admissibility of False Confession Expert Testimony

A SINGLE SERVER BERNOULLI VACATION QUEUE WITH TWO TYPE OF SERVICES AND WITH RESTRICTED ADMISSIBILITY

A single server queue with Bernoulli vacation has been considered. In addition the admission to queue is based on a Bernoulli process and the server gives two type of services. For this model the probability generating function for the number of customers in the queue at different server's state are obtained using supplementary variable technique. Some performance measures are calculated. Some ...