VOIR DIRE EFFICACY IN HIGHLY PUBLICIZED CRIMINAL CASES by DAVID M.ZIMMERMAN Adviser: Margaret Bull Kovera Whether judges and attorneys are able to detect bias among potential jurors (venirepersons) is a pivotal concern in highly publicized cases in which most of the jury pool has been exposed to pretrial publicity (PTP). The current dissertation research addressed 1) whether attorneys and judge...

This article analyzes infanticide based on the Coroners' Records for Providence County, Rhode Island, from the 1870s to 1938 to determine doctors' and coroners' attitudes toward mothers who killed. The nineteenth century witnessed a medical discourse on the possibility of postpartum insanity as a cause of infanticide. While some women claimed temporary insanity, and some doctors and coroners le...

Formal description techniques (FDT's) are useful in the protocol development cycle, particulary in the conformance testing area. In this paper, we present TETRA, a test and trace analysis tool based on the LOTOS FDT which can be used to automatically compare the specified verdicts of a conformance test case with a protocol specification, or to analyse results of a test run with the reference sp...

homicide is one of the most important crimes in all countries statutory laws. such an importance is out of both of severity of the committed crime and difficulties in trial. these difficulties may cause to different and even paradoxical verdicts in the same case. this article is involved in one of these cases, i.e. homicide which has encountered to different judgments and is still open. brief r...

Purpose Our study fills the vacancy of litigation research related to trigeminal neuralgia management, giving health care providers information needed understand potential litigious outcomes that follow treatment methods. Methods We queried Westlaw database identify cases management. Key variables extracted included medical complaints, trial outcomes, and demographics. Continuous were compared ...

The development of communications systems demands testing. This paper presents a framework for testing on-the-fly, which relies on the identification of 3 types of tests and on their sequential execution. The ioco conformance relation was adopted in order to assign verdicts. A prototype tool is also presented that supports the proposed framework. This tool, named PROFYT, was developed based on ...