October 2008

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Articles in this Issue

  1. Beyond Guantánamo: Confronting the New Paradigm of Prevention in Domestic Terrorism Cases

    Beyond Guantánamo: Confronting the New Paradigm of Prevention in Domestic Terrorism Cases

    Michael Price

  2. Challenging Firearms and Toolmark Identification Part One

    Challenging Firearms and Toolmark Identification Part One

    Adina Schwartz

  3. Confronting a Constitutional Crisis: Miami-Dade Chief Public Defender Stands His Ground

    Confronting a Constitutional Crisis: Miami-Dade Chief Public Defender Stands His Ground

    Maureen Dimino

  4. Forced Medication After United States v. Sell: Fighting a Client's 'War on Drugs'

    Forced Medication After United States v. Sell: Fighting a Client's 'War on Drugs'

    Donna Lee Elm, Douglas Passon

  5. Friend of the Court

    Friend of the Court

    Jack King

  6. From the President: Death Penalty Funding Bureaucracy and the Fountain of Justice

    Death Penalty Funing Bureaucracy and the Fountain

    John Wesley Hall

  7. Heartbreak Hotel and the Fourth Amendment: A Motel Graphic

    Heartbreak Hotel and the Fourth Amendment: A Motel Graphic

    Jon M. Sands, Shawdy Banihashemi

  8. Informal Opinion: The Post-Booker World: Does the Ex Post Facto Clause Still Apply at Sentencing?

    The Post-Booker World: Does the Ex Post Facto Cla

    Mark P. Rankin and Mark H. Allenbaugh

  9. Inside NACDL: NACDL’s Defense of Liberty Program

    NACDL’s Defense of Liberty Program There is some

    Norman L. Reimer

  10. NACDL News

    NACDL Hails Legislative Protection for Inadverten

    Jack King

  11. Securities Fraud

    Securities Fraud

    Kenneth M. Breen, Keith W. Miller

  12. Top 10 Dos and Don'ts To Tell Your Clients Before They Take the Witness Stand

    Top 10 Dos and Don'ts To Tell Your Clients Before They Take the Witness Stand Dr. Noelle Nelson 40 As important as the evidence and facts are to a case, so is credible witness testimony. Without clear and confident witnesses, a trial’s outcome may be less than what an attorney has worked so h

    Dr. Noelle Nelson

  13. TV Review

    TV Review Rachel R. May 55 Raising the Bar Mondays, 10/9c TNT Raising the Bar provides a generous helping of sensationalism and a disturbing dose of realism as it tells the tale of a lurid web of relationships among New York City public defenders, state attorneys, judicial clerks, and

    Rachel R. May