The article focuses on concerns related to scientific and predictive profiling of criminals under the Rule 405 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. It reflects on the Rule 405 in which scientists, doctors and criminologists explain the characteristics of a convicted murderer profile and discusses how this profiling can be used by lawyers as evidence against defendants. It mentions that people, who are aggressive, use weapons and living with abusive parents, are more likely to turn murderers
The accused in a criminal case has the right to offer evidence of a pertinent character trait in ord...
This Article proposes that the final provisions of Rule 407 and 411, which provide a list of example...
It is a fundamental principle of the American justice system that a defendant should be judged on th...
The article focuses on concerns related to scientific and predictive profiling of criminals under th...
The admission of a criminal defendant’s prior bad acts can be a powerful tool for attaining a convic...
Federal Rule of Evidence 404 severely limits the government’s ability to offer evidence of a defenda...
This article calls for a new character evidence rule allowing the admission of prior acts of abuse w...
abstract: Since the inception of what is now known as the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) at the Fede...
The use of criminal profiling as an investigative tool has been increasing over the past 50 years wo...
In virtually every jurisdiction in the United States, the law of evidence prohibits parties from off...
Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), which governs the admissibility of other-acts evidence, is a mess, ...
This article centers on the case of United States v. Martinez, the only recent case in which an accu...
An examination of People v. Molineux a 1901 New York landmark case in evidence which gave rise to wh...
Criminal profiling has received considerable attention from media sources; sufficiently so to allow ...
Many oppose the use of profile evidence against defendants at trial, even when the statistical corre...
The accused in a criminal case has the right to offer evidence of a pertinent character trait in ord...
This Article proposes that the final provisions of Rule 407 and 411, which provide a list of example...
It is a fundamental principle of the American justice system that a defendant should be judged on th...
The article focuses on concerns related to scientific and predictive profiling of criminals under th...
The admission of a criminal defendant’s prior bad acts can be a powerful tool for attaining a convic...
Federal Rule of Evidence 404 severely limits the government’s ability to offer evidence of a defenda...
This article calls for a new character evidence rule allowing the admission of prior acts of abuse w...
abstract: Since the inception of what is now known as the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) at the Fede...
The use of criminal profiling as an investigative tool has been increasing over the past 50 years wo...
In virtually every jurisdiction in the United States, the law of evidence prohibits parties from off...
Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), which governs the admissibility of other-acts evidence, is a mess, ...
This article centers on the case of United States v. Martinez, the only recent case in which an accu...
An examination of People v. Molineux a 1901 New York landmark case in evidence which gave rise to wh...
Criminal profiling has received considerable attention from media sources; sufficiently so to allow ...
Many oppose the use of profile evidence against defendants at trial, even when the statistical corre...
The accused in a criminal case has the right to offer evidence of a pertinent character trait in ord...
This Article proposes that the final provisions of Rule 407 and 411, which provide a list of example...
It is a fundamental principle of the American justice system that a defendant should be judged on th...