Category Archives: Thomas C. Brandstrader Chicago Criminal Defense Attorney

Larry Cunningham (St. John’s University School of Law) has posted Appellate Review of Unpreserved Questions in the Criminal Cases: An Attempt to Define the ‘Interest of Justice’ (Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 285, Fall 2010) on SSRN. … Continue reading →

Benjamin L. Berger (Osgoode Hall Law School) has posted Mental Disorder and the Instability of Blame in Criminal Law (RETHINKING CRIMINAL LAW THEORY: NEW CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF DOMESTIC, TRANSNATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW, pp. 117-139, Hart Publishing, 2011) on SSRN. … Continue reading →

Andrew E. Taslitz (Howard University – School of Law) has posted Destroying the Village to Save It: The Warfare Analogy (or Dis-Analogy?) and the Moral Imperative to Address Collateral Consequences (Howard Law Journal, Vol. 54, p. 501, 2011) on SSRN. Here is the … Continue reading →

Gregory J. DeAngelo , Shawn D. Bushway and Benjamin Hansen (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) – Department of Economics , University at Albany and University of Oregon) have posted Deterability by Age on SSRN. Here is the abstract: There is a growing cost-benefit conversation about the best policy … Continue reading →

Russell D. Covey (Georgia State University College of Law) has posted Mass Exoneration Data and the Causes of Wrongful Convictions on SSRN. Here is the abstract: What we currently know about the persons who have been wrongfully convicted is based largely on exonerations … Continue reading →

Michael Mannheimer (Northern Kentucky University – Salmon P. Chase College of Law) has posted Cruel and Unusual Federal Punishments on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In recent years, federal prison sentences have often far outstripped state sentences for the same criminal conduct. This … Continue reading →

MacCoun on the Dutch Cannabis Experience Ro MacCoun (University of California, Berkeley – Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program) has posted What Can We Learn from the Dutch Cannabis Coffeeshop System? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Aims: To examine the empirical consequences of … Continue reading →

Sklansky on Criminal Justice Work and “The Wire” David Alan Sklansky (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) has posted Confined, Crammed, and Inextricable: What The Wire Gets Right (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 473, 2011) … Continue reading →

No. 1-09-1107 THE PEOPLE v. RONNIE GRANT,   Judge Presiding. PRESIDING JUSTICE GARCIA delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justice McBride specially concurred, with opinion. Justice R.E. Gordon dissented, with opinion. Defendant Ronnie Grant was arrested by Chicago … Continue reading →

Subjective Experience and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (Kolber) riginally posted to Prawfsblawg. Incidentally, the bleg at the end of this post is still a live one: In The Subjective Experience of Punishment, I argued that we ought to take better account of … Continue reading →