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Legislative Push Towards Supersession in Missouri: Why the State Attorney General Should Not Be Statutorily Granted Concurrent Jurisdiction with Locally Elected Prosecutors
Get PDFThere is a current trend of electing progressive or “reform-minded” prosecutors over “tough-on-crime” prosecutors in local elections across the country. Traditionally, prosecutors have possessed wide discretion over which cases to prosecute or not, and the law presumes that “prosecutors make discretionary decisions disinterestedly, unaffected by their own self-interest or the interest of others.” However, recently in Missouri, state officials have pushed for providing the state attorney general with concurrent jurisdiction over certain cases. In particular, the Missouri Senate passed a provision through an amendment to House Bill 2 (“HB2”) that would allow the State Attorney General to take over homicide cases in St. Louis City after ninety days if the Circuit Attorney has not filed charges or by request from “the chief law enforcement officer of the investigative agency for the alleged criminal offense or offenses.” Proponents of the measure say understaffed and inexperienced prosecutors require this kind of assistance to fight the “crime epidemic” in St. Louis City.
The proposed HB2 would drastically change Missouri’s historical practice of allowing the local prosecutor to exercise wide discretion in their roles. The election of progressive prosecutors in various cities and counties across the country is not something that has happened by chance. These communities are making the active choice to elect someone as prosecutor who feels the same way they do about the justice system. Voters who elect progressive prosecutors expect them to take many of the actions discussed throughout this Note, such as reduced prosecution of drug crimes or infrequent attempts to pursue the death penalty. While this issue is somewhat new in Missouri, similar proposals and discussions concerning a local prosecutor’s level of discretion have arisen across the country. This author suggests that the best resolution is for local legislatures to reject bills like HB2, which intentionally transfer local power away to the state level
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Legislative Push Towards Supersession in Missouri: Why the State Attorney General Should Not Be Statutorily Granted Concurrent Jurisdiction with Locally Elected Prosecutors
No full textThere is a current trend of electing progressive or “reform-minded” prosecutors over “tough-on-crime” prosecutors in local elections across the country. Traditionally, prosecutors have possessed wide discretion over which cases to prosecute or not, and the law presumes that “prosecutors make discretionary decisions disinterestedly, unaffected by their own self-interest or the interest of others.” However, recently in Missouri, state officials have pushed for providing the state attorney general with concurrent jurisdiction over certain cases. In particular, the Missouri Senate passed a provision through an amendment to House Bill 2 (“HB2”) that would allow the State Attorney General to take over homicide cases in St. Louis City after ninety days if the Circuit Attorney has not filed charges or by request from “the chief law enforcement officer of the investigative agency for the alleged criminal offense or offenses.” Proponents of the measure say understaffed and inexperienced prosecutors require this kind of assistance to fight the “crime epidemic” in St. Louis City.
The proposed HB2 would drastically change Missouri’s historical practice of allowing the local prosecutor to exercise wide discretion in their roles. The election of progressive prosecutors in various cities and counties across the country is not something that has happened by chance. These communities are making the active choice to elect someone as prosecutor who feels the same way they do about the justice system. Voters who elect progressive prosecutors expect them to take many of the actions discussed throughout this Note, such as reduced prosecution of drug crimes or infrequent attempts to pursue the death penalty. While this issue is somewhat new in Missouri, similar proposals and discussions concerning a local prosecutor’s level of discretion have arisen across the country. This author suggests that the best resolution is for local legislatures to reject bills like HB2, which intentionally transfer local power away to the state level
The Fight for Pay: How the Supreme Court Ultimately May Use Antitrust Law to Allow Student-Athletes to be Paid
Get PDFThe NCAA has long avoided the idea of compensating players. Josef Nilhas discusses how now, after years of inaction, this decision may ultimately lay in the hands of the Supreme Court from the perspective of federal Antitrust law.https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lawjournalonline/1065/thumbnail.jp
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The Fight for Pay: How the Supreme Court Ultimately May Use Antitrust Law to Allow Student-Athletes to be Paid
No full textThe NCAA has long avoided the idea of compensating players. Josef Nilhas discusses how now, after years of inaction, this decision may ultimately lay in the hands of the Supreme Court from the perspective of federal Antitrust law.https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lawjournalonline/1065/thumbnail.jp
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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