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It\u27s Not Just for Death Cases Anymore: How Capital Mitigation Investigation Can Enhance Experiential Learning and Improve Advocacy in Law School Non-Capital Criminal Defense Clinics
Unconstitutionality of Government-Funded Foreign Humanitarian Aid from the Originalist Perspective
Forcing the Tribe to Bet on the House: The Limited Options and Risks to the Tribe when Indian Gaming Operations Seek Bankruptcy Relief
The Enduring Quality of an Alluring Mistake: Why One Person’s Intentions Cannot—And Never Could—Be Evidence of Another Person’s Conduct
For over a century, some courts—relying upon the landmark Supreme Court opinion in Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hillmon— have admitted one person’s intentions as evidence of what another person did. But Hillmon is wrong. The Supreme Court made an analytical error in its analysis. This Article seeks to expose and explain the error and therefore demonstrate that the state of mind exception to the general rule of exclusion of hearsay evidence should never support admission of one person’s stated intentions as evidence of what another person later did
Luddite levity and summertime musing
The author ponders the ubiquity of electronic screens and how attached (or detached) society has become