Articles in this Issue

1. Behind Closed Doors: The Fifth Amendment Is Alive and Well

   Behind Closed Doors Thomas K. Maher, Christopher Fialko August/September 2000 53 The Fifth Amendment Is Alive and Well In United States v. Dickerson, 166 F.3d 667 (4th Cir. 1999), a divided panel of the Fourth Circuit held that 18 U.S.C. § 3501 effectively overruled the Supreme Court's decision i

   Thomas K. Maher and Christopher Fialko

2. Death Watch

   Death Watch NACDL Staff August/September 2000 12 First Annual Clarence Darrow Death Penalty College NACDL helped co-sponsor the first annual Clarence Darrow Death Penalty College at the University of Michigan in May. Skillfully organized by Professor Andrea Lyon, the six-day college included inte

   NACDL Staff

3. Enhance You Case Through Forensic Audio

   Enhance You Case Through Forensic Audio Anthony J. Pellicano August/September 2000 18 During World War II, Hitler's voice was broadcast over the radio. The station announced that he was speaking from Bremen, Germany at 11:00 AM. At 11:15 AM, hundreds of kilometers to the south, there was another bro

   Anthony J. Pellicano

4. Fourth Amendment Forum: Hop on the Bus, Gus

   Fourth Amendment Forum Milton Hirsch, David O. Markus August/September 2000 39 Hop on the Bus, Gus Defense attorneys who view all forward progress in the Supreme Court's Fourth Amendment jurisprudence with skepticism, have been left wide-eyed and gasping by the 1999-2000 October term. In its two

   Milton Hirsch and David O. Markus

5. Landmark Study: Death Penalty System Found Irrational, Costly & Ineffective

   Landmark Study: Death Penalty System Found Irrational, Costly & Ineffective NACDL Staff August/September 2000 14 In June, Columbia University Law School released a landmark report, A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases which portrays the death penalty system as one rife with errors and c

   NACDL Staff

6. NACDL News

   NACDL News NACDL Staff August/September 2000 10   Party Platforms Must Call for Reform NACDL Decries Police Misconduct “The beating of a suspect by the Philadelphia police is another example of what appears to be a systematic problem with police forces across the nation. This time the bea

   NACDL Staff

7. Northern Lights: The Problem of Career Offenders

   Northern Lights Leslie Pringle, Steven Skurka, Rachel Young August/September 2000 34 The Problem of Career Offenders Call them what you will - habitual criminals, dangerous or professional criminals, certain offenders pose difficult problems for justice systems worldwide. At what point is society

   Leslie Pringle, Steven Skurka and Rachel Young

8. President's Column: Death Row Defense

   Death Row Defense Edward A. Mallett President's Column August/September 2000 7 sara

   Edward A. Mallett

9. Reviews in Review: Judicial Independence — Capital Cases; Economic Espionage; Computer Privacy

   Reviews in Review Ellen S. Podgor August/September 2000 33   Judicial Independence — Capital Cases Stephen B. Bright, Charles F. Baird, Penny J. White, George H. Kendall, Stephen F. Hanlon, & Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Breaking the Most Vulnerable Branch: Do Rising Threats to Judicial Indepen

   Ellen S. Podgor

10. The End of a Confidence Game: A Possible Defense to the Impossible Drug Prosecution

    The End of a Confidence Game: A Possible Defense to the Impossible Drug Prosecution James M. Shellow August/September 2000 22 Counsel faced with defending a substantive drug prosecution is confronted with a two witness paradigm: the agent and the chemist. It is virtually impossible to shake the test

    James M. Shellow

11. White Collar Crime: Supreme Court Upholds Derivative Use Immunity for the Act of Production

    White Collar Crime Kathryn Keneally August/September 2000 49 Supreme Court Upholds Derivative Use Immunity for the Act of Production In United States v. Hubbell, 1 the Supreme Court succinctly set out two central issues concerning a witness's Fifth Amendment rights in a criminal investigation, a

    Kathryn Keneally