As a part of criminal justice system, the prosecutor's office has authority to implement court decisions against convicted convicts whose case been terminated and there are no further legal remedies so that decision permanent force, which in verdict contains punishment. The duties as executor borne by prosecutors regulated article 1 point Law No. 16 2004 concerning Prosecution that, "Prosecutor...

Forensic psychiatrists have always experienced problems when testifying before the bar of justice-some burdensome, some answered relatively easily. Indeed their position in court was ill defined until Benjamin Rush ( 18 12) and Isaac Ray (1 838) placed psychiatry on a more credible basis. After Ray solidified the field testifying was largely in the hands of Superintendents of Insane Asylums fro...

Many violent relationships are characterized by a high degree of cyclicality: women who are the victims of domestic violence often leave and return multiple times. To explain this we develop a model of time inconsistent preferences in the context of domestic violence. This time inconsistency generates a demand for commitment. We present supporting evidence that women in violent relationships di...

This note examines the constitutional and policy implications of criminal prosecutions for prenatal maternal substance abuse under statutes criminalizing drug delivery, child abuse, and manslaughter. Although only one of these convictions has been upheld in the thirty years since a prosecutor first brought such charges, prosecutors continue to propose new and increasingly inventive theories of ...

But for Byron Mitchell, a quiet, husky, bespectacled bear of a man in his mid-fifties, the proceedings were anything but academic. Mitchell was on trial for allegedly driving the getaway car in the 1991 robbery of an armored vehicle. No one had been hurt, but Mitchell, facing a conviction for armed robbery, was looking at spending most of the rest of his life in prison. The forensic evidence th...

Ever since individual locus standi before the Cartel Court was introduced in 1993, private enforcement of competition rules has played an important role in Austria. To a considerable extent, actions by private parties, or by public institutions such as the Chamber of Labour, have compensated for the lack of a public prosecutor in competition matters. However, in most cases these private enforce...