The Nebraska Criminal Law Practitioner's Guide to Representing Non-Citizens in State Court Proceedings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Ruser
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
State Court ◽  
Court Proceedings

scholarly journals The Implementation of the Strict-Liability Principle to the Perpetrators of Forest and Land Burning

2020 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 314-333
Author(s):  
Hafrida Hafrida ◽  
Helmi Helmi ◽  
Bunga Permatasari
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
Deterrent Effect ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
Main Principle ◽  
Health Quality ◽  
Court Proceedings

The massive forest and land fires in Indonesia have been raging and caused haze disaster. The haze disaster is not suffered only in Indonesian territory, but it has become a transnational disaster resulting in extensive economic and health quality losses. In addition, the disaster has led damage to agricultural land and disruption of diplomatic relations among affected states. The number of perpetrators of forest and land fires that increase annually shows that the enforcement of criminal law is relatively ineffective. This article covers the problem whether the principle of strict liability can be applied to the perpetrators of forest burning. In 2019, forest fires in the Jambi Province had took placed in estimated 165.86.58 hectares. The forest fire is the main source of transnational haze disaster. Law enforcement on forest fires in Jambi has not provided a deterrent effect yet. There are forty-six companies acquiring fires in their concession land areas. Unfortunately, only four of them reached court proceedings and only two companies were declared guilty by the court. Therefore, as a deterrent effort, the principle of strict liability can be applied as the main principle to handle perpetrators of forest burning.

The 2004 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice

2005 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 450-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Crook
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
State Court ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
Advisory Opinion ◽  
International Court Of Justice ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
International Court ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Crown Prince ◽  
Palestinian Territory

During 2004 the International Court of Justice decided three important matters. In March the Court found that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations with respect to a number of Mexican nationals sentenced to death in U.S. state court proceedings. In a much-noted advisory opinion, the Court concluded in July that Israel's construction of a security wall or fence in occupied Palestinian territory violated international law. And in December it found that it did not have jurisdiction over Serbia and Montenegro's claims against eight NATO countries regarding NATO's 1999 bombing campaign aimed at halting the conflict in Kosovo. In other developments, the Court heard and had under deliberation Germany's preliminary objections to Liechtenstein's suit regarding certain property of Crown Prince Adam. Finally, Judge Gilbert Guillaume, a member of the Court since 1987 and its former president, announced that he would resign in February 2005.

scholarly journals The Problematics of Simple Lawsuit Implementation To Reduce Civil Cases In Supreme Court

AL-HUKAMA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-194
Author(s):  
Bambang Sugeng ◽  
Zahry Vandawati Ch.
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Simple System ◽  
State Court ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Civil Cases ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Court Process

This research has purpose to analyze the implementation of a simple lawsuit settlement to reduce the accumulation of civil cases in the Supreme Court. Also to analyze the constraints and obstacles in the application of simple claim resolution to reduce the buildup of civil cases and investigate the constraints and obstacles in the application of simple claim resolution to reduce the buildup of civil cases. This research is normative legal research that used the approach of statute approach and conceptual approach. The result of this research indicated that the implementation of simple lawsuit mechanismin court process could be quite helpful for citizen to settle the civil cases on state court with a quick process, simple system and low cost. In the context of implementing a simple lawsuit mechanism in court proceedings, there are several obstacles and have not maximally utilized in society, such as the minimum limit for the value of material claims is at most Rp. 200,000,000.00 (two hundred million rupiahs).

scholarly journals Criminal legal basis for an expedited trial procedure provided by the chapter 40 of the Russian Criminal Procedure Code

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-208
Author(s):  
A. V. Boyarskaya
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Court Ruling ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Procedure Code ◽  
Court Proceedings

The subject of study is the criminal-legal basis for an expedited procedure for adopting a court ruling when the accused person agrees with the charge. These issues are relevant, since in July 2020 the substantive legal basis of the expedited procedure in Russia was changed and now this procedure can only be applied in criminal cases of small and medium gravity.The aim of this work is to study the substantive legal basis of an expedited procedure of litigation from the point of view of the changes were made to it. The author expresses the thesis that the legislators did not quite reasonably link criminal-legal grounds of the expedited procedure with the system of categories of crimes.The methodology. The author used general scientific methods (dialectical, historical, methods of formal logic, system analysis) as well as method of formal legal interpretation of Russian Criminal Code and judicial decisions of Russian courts.The main results, scope of application. The criminal and legal basis of certain criminal procedure is a package of criminal law standards, for the implementation of which a certain criminal and procedural form is intended. The parameters of the substantive basis of criminal proceedings are set with the signs that shall be indicated in the Code of Criminal Procedure and may change. It directly refers to the expedited procedure for adopting a court ruling, by Chapter 40 of the Russian Criminal Procedure Code. Initially, it was assumed that the application of this procedure is permissible in criminal cases concerning crimes the punishment for which does not exceed 5 years imprisonment in accordance with the Russian Criminal Code. The expedited court proceedings began to be applied in criminal cases concerning crimes, the punishment for which does not exceed 10 years imprisonment in accordance with the Russian Criminal Code, since 2003. The Russian Supreme Court made an attempt to reduce the application of court proceedings provided by Chapter 40 of the Russian Criminal Procedure Code in 2019. It turned out to be successful. Legislators have changed the basic criterion that determines the substantive basis for an expedited procedure for adopting a court ruling. Now the system of categories of crimes is this basis. The system of categories of crimes presented in Article 15 of the Russian Criminal Code is not stable enough and is based on a set of provisions of this Code, but the sanctions for many crimes are not scientifically and practically grounded in this Code. In addition, the classification of crimes enshrined in Article 15 of the Russian Criminal Code is based on such a criterion as the nature and degree of public danger of the crime. These categories are among the most complex in the science of criminal law.Conclusions. The use of categories of crimes as a criterion for determining the criminal legal basis of the expedited procedure for making a court decision significantly complicates the application of the expedited procedure.

Bail, Probation and Parole in Belgian Law

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 100-110
Author(s):  
George E. Glos
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Personal Liberty ◽  
The Third ◽  
Probation And Parole ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
A Minor

Bail, probation and parole have one thing in common, namely, they are devices that enable a person proceeded against criminally to obtain personal liberty from detention. It is significant that each of them falls within one of the three basic phases of criminal proceedings. Bail may be obtained in the first phase extending from the beginning of the proceedings until trial or the final decision on appeal. In the second phase dealing with the final decision, a person may be admitted to probation rather than commited to jail. In the third phase covering the incarceration, a convicted person may be released on parole with respect to the final portion of his imprisonment rather than being kept in prison for the whole term imposed. This seemingly favorable treatment of offenders is based on sound reasoning, namely, since a person must be considered innocent until found guilty in court proceedings, an unnecessary detention prior to trial must be avoided. In the second phase, a minor offense may be punished by a probated sentence, i.e., the term of imprisonment will have to be served only if the person does not comply with the conditions of probation. The favor granted to the offender is designed to guide him out of trouble in the future and encourage him to abide by the law. In the third phase, parole is envisaged as a reward for good conduct and as an incentive to behave well after release. Belgian criminal law has been applying all these principles with success.

Der Sachverständige im Straf- und Vollstreckungsverfahren. Auftrag, Qualifikation, Kompetenzabgrenzung

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen L. Müller ◽  
Peer Briken ◽  
Harald Dreßing ◽  
Jutta Muysers ◽  
Andreas Hill
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Interdisciplinary Cooperation ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Specialist Knowledge ◽  
The Law ◽  
Court Proceedings

AbstractThe amendment to the law of forced detention in psychiatric hospitals has strengthened the role of experts in criminal law proceedings. Experts have specific specialist knowledge and exert a guarantor function in relation to the court. These interdisciplinary processes hold risks that have to be encountered by critical interaction preserving boundaries between different disciplines and competencies. Transgressing competencies and violating boundaries can result in intrusions upon fundamental rights of those affected that may also raise liability questions. This article discusses the framework of this interdisciplinary cooperation, in particular the relevance of competence boundaries in criminal court proceedings

Have you considered the opposite? A debiasing strategy for judgment in criminal investigation

2021 ◽  
pp. 0032258X2110388
Author(s):  
Ivar Fahsing ◽  
Asbjørn Rachlew ◽  
Lennart May
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Presumption Of Innocence ◽  
Positive Guidance ◽  
Evidence Evaluation ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
Human Decision ◽  
Alternative Hypotheses ◽  
Court Proceedings

Fundamental challenges in human decision-making pose a serious threat to fair evidence evaluation, verdicts in court proceedings, and the administration of justice. Drawing on cognitive psychology, we examined whether a consider-the-opposite approach can assist police officers with positive guidance on how to implement crucial legal thresholds such as the presumption of innocence. In an experiment with sworn police officers ( N = 100), we compared a consider-the-opposite condition and a control condition (with no further instructions) and measured the formulated alternative hypotheses. The results show a promising debiasing effect of the consider-the-opposite approach which may strengthen fundamental principles of criminal law.

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