As a result of the October 3, 1995 not guilty verdicts in People v. Simpson, numerous proposals to reform the criminal justice system have been put forward. [2] The suggestions have primarily targeted on the structure and role of the jury, quickening the pace of trials, changing evidence rule to focus on "the law" rather than tangential or emotional issues, and retaining the dignity of the cour...

This study explored the characteristics and consequences of criminogenic problem gambling in Sweden. All verdicts (N = 283,884) delivered by Swedish general courts between 2014 2018 were subjected to a key word search for term ‘problem gambling’ its synonyms. Verdicts that met criterion (n 1,232) inspected manually cases which clearly was main cause committing crime 282) analyzed quantitatively...

Conformance testing in network engineering is a crucial phase in the development of complex communicating systems. Model-based testing allows to automatize the testing process by generating test suites from a formal specification and to execute them on a real IUT. While many techniques have been developed, their application to test wireless routing ad-hoc protocols still raises many issues. The...

Thirty of the first 45 individuals to receive guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) verdicts in South Carolina were interviewed using a structured interview schedule for diagnosis. The relationship of diagnosis to pretrial evaluation and posttrial conviction treatment are discussed. No person received GBMI in a jury trial. Suggestions to improve the operation of the GBMI verdict are made, as well as a...

The decision in Clean Sweep Prof'l Parking Lot Maint., Inc., v. Talley1 reveals the Supreme Court of Virginia's challenging task of applying the Commonwealth's workers' compensation scheme to industrial accident cases. Fraught with fine-line distinctions, which in many instances nullify a plaintiff s common law negligence claim, case law in this area deserves close attention. Verdicts in such s...

Many philosophical theories make comparisons between objects, events, states of affairs, worlds, or systems, and many such theories deliver plausible verdicts only if some of the elements they compare are ranked as ‘best.’ When the relevant ordering does not have such ‘best’ or ‘tied for best’ elements the theory wrongly falls silent or gives badly counterintuitive results. I call these limit a...