Forensic psychiatrists have long been interested in the topic of incompetence to stand trial (ICST), but research in this area did not really begin until the early 1970s, when McGarry operationalized the Dusky decision, and the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Jackson v. Indiana. Since then, the difficulties associated with identifying ICST defendants and restoring them to compete...

This article assesses the extent to which current guilty plea procedure is consistent with legitimations of criminal convictions, a focus on decision making in child defendants. I argue that context decisions children, justice system must ensure defendants make result accurate convictions are reached fair way respects rights. The does not do this due an almost exclusive autonomy. likely be lead...

Prior research has established that crime victims’ and defendants’ demographic traits affect the sentence criminal defendants receive. In addition, previous studies have found judges’ juries’ biases outcomes in cases. Yet, despite significant scholarly attention to effect of race gender on sentencing, no study explored whether prosecutors’ influence outcome This is surprising, given prosecutors...

Courts and jurors sometimes refuse to assign liability defendants on the basis of statistics alone, despite their apparent reliability. I argue that this refusal is best understood as a recognition defendants’ right security. Understood robust good in Philip Pettit’s sense, security requires someone risking harm others’ protected interests adopt disposition concern controls against wrongfully h...

speedy trail is one of the important subjects of civil procedure. the concept of consequences of speedy trail, because of their direct and speedy effects on claimants and defendants and even some times on third parties, is very important. the judge’s unsuitable treatment can also have some consequences in respect of his responsibility. in this paper it has been tried to analyze the consequences...

This paper examines how the spaces through which legal trials take place shape attitudes towards justice. There has been a growing academic interest in role of courts configuring relationships between trial participants and consequently reproducing pre-established hierarchies power. builds on this work to consider spatiality from perspective particular group court users: defendants. Drawing qua...

Justice Collaborators are suspects, defendants, convicts who cooperate with law enforcement to reveal a certain criminal offense. In narcotics crime used as tool in uncovering, fighting, organized cases. Collaborator is an extraordinary (Extra Ordinary Crime), where the perpetrator needs protection. The formulation of problem this study how protection, rights and obligations analysis applicatio...

it ness intimidation — that is, threats made by defendants to discourage victims or eyewitnesses of crime from reporting or testifying—has only recently been recognized as a prevalent problem. Cases of witness intimidation brought to the public eye by the media typically are sensational and highly unusual, involving witnesses who testified against members of organized crime. Recent studies, how...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Laryngotracheal stenosis usually occurs as a result of injury from endotracheal intubation or tracheostomy placement. With an estimated incidence of 1% to 22% after these procedures, chronic sequelae ranging from discomfort to devastating effects on quality of life, and even death, make this complication a potential litigation target. We examined federal and state court re...

In their article “Explaining Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases”, (JEP, Winter 1997), Babcock and Loewenstein (hereafter BL) invoke the notion of selfserving biases to account for behavior in a rich variety of settings, for instance, the failure to reach an agreement in laboratory bargaining games, the behavior of job searchers, and the discrepancy between plaintiffs’ and defen...