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Content from the following sources has been used in the creation of this casebook:
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Criminal Law
(First published Jun 2020)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 1: Part I: The Principles and Limits of Punishment
- 2: Class 2 - What, when & how do we punish? Are there alternatives to prevent and redress harm?
- 6.6: Sample Problem based on Cogdon case.
- 8.3: Knowledge & Willful Blindness: United States v. Jewell
- 8.5: Recklessness: People v. Hall
- 9.4: People v. Marrero
- 9.5: Lambert v. California
- 11.1: Some Review First: Example Based on US v. X-Citement Video
- 11.5: Note: People v. Anderson
- 11.6: Official Comment to Section 210.6
- 12.4: Comment to MPC Section 210.3
- 18.1: People v. Acosta
- 18.3: People v. Warner-Lambert
- 19.1: Smallwood v. State
- 19.2: People v. Rizzo
- 19.4: McQuirter v. State
- 19.5: MPC Section 5.01
- 19.6: O'Shaughnessy v. People
- 20.1.1: State v. Gladstone
- 20.1.3: Rory Little, Opinion analysis: Justice Kagan writes a primer on aiding and abetting law
- 20.2.1: People v. Russell
- 21.1.1: Wilcox v. Jeffery
- 21.1.2: Note on Wilcox v. Jeffery
- 21.1.3: Hypothetical Based on ex rel. Attorney General v. Tally, Judge
- 21.2.1.1: People v. Lauria
- 28.1: The Death Penalty in 2021: Year End Report | Death Penalty Information Center
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Criminal Law - Godsoe
(First published Aug 2022)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 1.1.1: Introduction to this Casebook and to Criminal Law
- 1.1.2: Mass Incarceration, Bruce Western video
- 1.1.4: Criminal Legal System Flowcharts & Cartoon
- 1.1.5: Excerpt of Before the Law: Three Years on Rikers Without Trial | The New Yorker
- 1.1.6: Misdemeanorland
- 1.1.7: The New Jim Crow
- 2.3: The end of Roe v. Wade raises fear of more prosecutions for pregnancy loss : NPR
- 2.4: Excerpt of Lawrence v. Texas [June 26, 2003] & The Backstory (from Godsoe, Perfect Plaintiffs, 125 Yale L. J. F. 136 (2015))
- 2.5: Sered excerpt
- 2.6: Davis/McLeod excerpt
- 26: Supplementary, Optional Resources
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Tanaka Criminal Law Casebook
(First published Apr 2021)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 4.3: Ewing v. California
- 6.2: Notes & Questions (Martin v State)
- 6.3: Blackstone's Commentaries (Book 4, Chapter 2; 1765-1769)
- 6.5: People v. Decina
- 7.1: Jones v. United States
- 26.3.1: Optional Reading Class 4 - 27: The Most Perfect Album
- 26.5.1: Optional Reading Class 7 - Requiring Battered Women Die: Murder Liability for Mothers Under Failure to Protect Statutes
Tanaka Criminal Law Casebook incorporates additional material from:
- Ball/Oberman Crim Law Casebook (first published Jun 2020) with contributions from:
- Criminal Law Spring 2017 (first published Jan 2017) with contributions from:
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Criminal Law Spring 2017
(First published Jan 2017)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 6.1: Martin v. State
- 7.3: People v. Beardsley
- 7.7: Vermont Duty to Aid the Endangered Act
- 7.8: Regina v. Cunningham
- 8.2: Statutory Interpretation: Elonis v. United States
- 10.3: Bordenkircher v. Hayes
- 11.2: Commonwealth v. Carroll
- 13.2: State v. Williams
- 16.2: State v. Rusk
- 16.4: Commonwealth v. Appleby
- 17.1: State of New Jersey in the Interest of M.T.S.
- 17.3: State v. Bolsinger
- 29.1: Calvin Trillin, "The Color of Blood," The New Yorker, March 3, 2008
Criminal Law Spring 2017 incorporates additional material from:
- Criminal Law Fall 2020 (first published Aug 2020) with contributions from:
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Ball/Oberman Crim Law Casebook
(First published Jun 2020)Authors:
- Michelle Oberman
- Christina Iriart
- Jenai Howard
- Phillip Yin
- Zachary Nemirovsky
- Michael Pons
- Angela Madrigal
- Miriam Contreras
- Nicholas Newman
- Leah Mesfin
- Michael Flynn
- Cydney Chilimidos
- W. David Ball
Including material from the following sections:
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Criminal Law Fall 2020
(First published Aug 2020)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
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Ball/Oberman Current Challenges in Criminal Law
(First published Aug 2020)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 26.4.1: If we acknowledge that drug addiction is a brain problem and not a criminal act, is it fair to incarcerate people who relapse?
- 26.4.2: If Addiction is a Disease, Why is It Criminal? Maia Szalavitz Envisions a Compassionate Drug Policy (podcast, 20 minutes)
- 26.4.3: The Untold Story of Purdue Pharma’s Cozy Relationship With the American Medical Association – Mother Jones
- 26.5.3: Should the Police who Failed to Intervene to Save George Floyd be Criminally Liable?
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