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Issue 14.1

Symposium: The Civil Side of Criminal Procedure

Donald A. Dripps, The Civil Side of Criminal Procedure: Back to the Future?, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 1 (2016)

Michael D. White, Henry F. Fradella, Weston J. Morrow & Doug Mellom, Federal Civil Litigation as an Instrument of Police Reform: A Natural Experiment Exploring the Effects of the Floyd Ruling on Stop-and-Frisk Activities in New York City, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 9 (2016).

Joshua Chanin, Evaluating Section 14141: An Empirical Review of Pattern or Practice Police Misconduct Reform, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 67 (2016).

Stephen Rushin, Competing Case Studies of Structural Reform Litigation in American Police Departments, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 113 (2016).

Bruce A. Green & Samuel J. Levine, Disciplinary Regulation of Prosecutors as a Remedy for Abuses of Prosecutorial Discretion: A Descriptive and Normative Analysis, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 143 (2016).

Commentary Symposium

Sam Kamin, Prosecutorial Discretion in the Context of Immigration and Marijuana Law Reform: The Search for a Limiting Principle, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 183 (2016).

Grace Wallack & John Hudak, Marijuana Rescheduling: A Partial Prescription for Policy Change, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 207 (2016).

Commentaries

Matthew C. Altman, Arbitrariness and the California Death Penalty, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim L. 217 (2016).

Jesse Cheng, “Mitigate From Day One”: Why Effective Defense Advocates Do Not Prioritize Liberty over Life in Death Penalty Cases, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 231 (2016).

Carrie Leonetti, Motive and Suspicion: Florida v. Jardines and the Constitutional Right to Protection from Suspicionless Dragnet Investigations, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 247 (2016).

David H. Bodiker Lecture on Criminal Justice

Stephen Bright, Rigged: When Race and Poverty Determine Outcomes in the Criminal Courts, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 263 (2016).

Walter C. Reckless-Simon Dinitz Memorial Lecture

Nancy Rodriguez, Strengthening Justice in the U.S.: The Impact of Scientific Research, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 289 (2016).

Review

Kevin Lapp, American Criminal Record Exceptionalism, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim L. 303 (2016).

Term Paper

Carissa Byrne Hessick, Betterman v. Montana and the Underenforcement of Constitutional Rights at Sentencing, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 323 (2016).

Amici Briefs

Doug Squires & Thomas Rovito, The Trend of Tawdry Tales: Public Corruption Prosecutions in the Wake of McDonnell , 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. Amici Briefs 5, 17 (2017).

Daniel P. Tokaji, Bribery and Campaign Finance: McDonnell’s Double-Edged Sword 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. Amici Briefs 15 25 (2017).

Rees Alexander, Criminal Prosecutions for Environmental, Safety and Health Violations: An Eventful Year Review 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. Amici Briefs 27, 29 (2017).