Criminal Law: Cases And Materials

by Lee, Cynthia; Harris, Angela

• ISBN13: 9780314151285
• ISBN10: 0314151281
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-20
• Publisher: West Academic

Summary

Criminal Law: Cases and Materials 1st Edition by Cynthia Lee and Angela Harris provides a fresh perspective on criminal law, while keeping a fairly traditional organizational focus. A special feature of this book is the introductory text that appears at the outset of each chapter, providing a doctrinal roadmap for the student reader.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Acknowledgments	vii
Table of Cases	ix
Table of Authorities	xv
Copyright Acknowledgments	xxi
Summary of Contents	xxvii
Basic Principles of the Criminal Law	1	(72)
Introduction	1	(2)
The Aims of the Criminal Law	3	(2)
Henry M. Hart, Jr.
Sources of Criminal Law	5	(1)
Note	5	(1)
Justifications for Punishment	6	(29)
Note	6	(1)
Regina v. Dudley and Stephens	7	(5)
Note	12	(1)
People v. Suitte	12	(9)
Haven or Hell? Inside Lorton Central Prison: Experiences of Punishment Justified	21	(14)
Robert Blecker
The Presumption of Innocence and Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt	35	(5)
Note	35	(3)
District of Columbia Criminal Jury Instruction 2.09	38	(1)
Virginia Model Jury Instructions: Criminal Instruction No. 2.100	39	(1)
California Jury Instructions - Criminal 2.90	39	(1)
Standards of Review	40	(4)
Note	40	(1)
Curley v. United States	40	(4)
The Role of the Jury	44	(19)
Note	44	(2)
People v. Williams	46	(8)
Race-Based Jury Nullification: Case-in-Chief	54	(6)
Paul D. Butler
Race-Based Jury Nullification: Rebuttal	60	(2)
Andrew D. Leipold
Note	62	(1)
Statutory Interpretation	63	(10)
Note	63	(1)
United States v. Dauray	64	(9)
Constitutional Limitations on the Power to Punish	73	(85)
Introduction	73	(1)
Fourteenth Amendment Due Process: Void for Vagueness Doctrine	74	(25)
Note	74	(1)
Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville	74	(5)
Can a Person Be Free to Wander Without Worry of Arrest?	79	(2)
Leon Lindsay
Kolender v. Lawson	81	(4)
Note	85	(1)
Walking While Black: Encounters with the Police on My Street	86	(5)
Paul Butler
City of Chicago v. Morales	91	(7)
Note	98	(1)
The Eighth Amendment: Cruel and Unusual Punishment and the Principle of Proportionality	99	(28)
Note	99	(1)
Coker v. Georgia	99	(6)
Note	105	(1)
Ewing v. California	106	(10)
Ramirez v. Castro	116	(11)
Note	127	(1)
Equal Protection	127	(22)
Note	127	(1)
McCleskey v. Kemp	128	(12)
Justice Isn't Blind	140	(2)
Richard Morin
State v. Russell	142	(7)
Federalism and the Supremacy Clause	149	(9)
Note	149	(1)
Oregon v. Ashcroft	150	(4)
The Battle Over Medical Marijuana	154	(4)
Rich Ehisen
The Act Requirement	158	(49)
Introduction	158	(1)
Acting Versus Thinking: The Proscription Against Thought Crimes	159	(6)
Note	159	(1)
Jailed ``On The Precipice'' of Crime	159	(2)
Sandy Theis
Note	161	(1)
Wisconsin v. Mitchell	162	(3)
Acting On One's Own Versus Acting Under State Compulsion: ``Situational Offenses''	165	(1)
Martin v. State	165	(1)
Note	166	(1)
Acting Voluntarily Versus Acting Involuntarily: The Unconsciousness Defense	166	(10)
Note	166	(2)
State v. Decina	168	(5)
Interpretive Construction in the Substantive Criminal Law	173	(2)
Mark Kelman
Associated Press, Epileptic Convicted of Assault Cleared	175	(1)
Acting Versus Failing to Act: Liability for Omissions	176	(19)
Note	176	(1)
Establishing the Duty to Act	177	(1)
People v. Beardsley	177	(6)
Commonwealth v. Howard	183	(2)
Motherhood and Crime	185	(1)
Dorothy E. Roberts
Commonwealth v. Pestinikas	186	(5)
The ``No Duty to Rescue'' Rule and the Debate Over ``Good Samaritan'' Statutes	191	(1)
The Right to be Apathetic: Iverson Case Raises Questions About Good Samaritan Laws	191	(2)
Charles Ashby
Two Forms of Justice: Iverson Case - Nevada and California Authorities Ought to Reexamine David Cash's Actions	193	(1)
Isabelle R. Gunning
Sample Good Samaritan Statutes	194	(1)
Hawaii's Good Samaritan Statute	194	(1)
Vermont's Good Samaritan Statute	195	(1)
Acting Versus Having a Status: ``Status Crimes''	195	(12)
Note	195	(1)
Robinson v. California	196	(4)
Powell v. Texas	200	(7)
The Mens Rea Requirement	207	(66)
Introduction	207	(1)
The Historical Development of Mens Rea	208	(2)
Regina v. Cunningham	208	(2)
Problems of Statutory Interpretation	210	(14)
Note	210	(1)
United States v. Yermian	210	(5)
Holloway v. United States	215	(9)
Intent	224	(23)
Note	224	(1)
Inferring Intent from Circumstantial Evidence	224	(1)
State v. Fugate	225	(1)
Virginia v. Black	226	(10)
The Doctrine of ``Transferred Intent''	236	(1)
Note	236	(1)
People v. Scott	237	(5)
Note	242	(1)
The Specific Intent/ General Intent Distinction	242	(1)
Note	242	(1)
People v. Atkins	243	(4)
Note	247	(1)
Knowledge	247	(6)
Note	247	(1)
United States v. Jewell	248	(5)
Strict Liability Crimes	253	(20)
Note	253	(1)
Morissette v. United States	253	(6)
Commonwealth v. Barone	259	(14)
Mistake and Ignorance	273	(50)
Introduction	273	(1)
Mistakes of Fact	273	(9)
Note	273	(1)
People v. Navarro	274	(3)
Bell v. State	277	(5)
Note	282	(1)
Mistake of Law	282	(41)
Note	282	(1)
Official Interpretation of the Law (a.k.a. ``Entrapment by Estoppel'')	283	(1)
Note	283	(1)
People v. Marrero	283	(7)
Note	290	(1)
United States v. Clegg	291	(3)
State v. Fridley	294	(4)
Ignorance or Mistake That Negates the Mens Rea	298	(1)
Note	298	(1)
Cheek v. United States	298	(7)
Bryan v. United States	305	(9)
Fair Notice and Due Process (the Lambert Exception)	314	(1)
Lambert v. California	314	(3)
State v. Bryant	317	(6)
Causation and Concurrence	323	(22)
Causation	323	(17)
Note	323	(1)
Actual (or ``But For'') Causation	324	(1)
Note	324	(1)
Proximate Causation	324	(1)
Note	324	(1)
Commonwealth v. Rementer	325	(8)
State v. Govan	333	(2)
Henderson v. Kibbe	335	(5)
Concurrence	340	(5)
Note	340	(1)
Thabo Meli v. Reginam	340	(2)
State v. Rose	342	(3)
Criminal Homicide	345	(133)
Introduction	346	(1)
Definitional Issues	346	(2)
Note	346	(2)
Categorizing Homicides	348	(2)
Note	348	(2)
Degrees of Murder (First Degree vs. Second Degree Murder)	350	(21)
Note	350	(1)
State v. Brown	351	(7)
State v. Bingham	358	(5)
Note	363	(1)
Gilbert v. State	363	(5)
Note	368	(3)
The Doctrine of Provocation (Voluntary Manslaughter)	371	(37)
Note	371	(1)
The Early Common Law's Approach to Provocation	372	(1)
Note	372	(1)
People v. Ambro	373	(4)
Note	377	(1)
The Modern ``Reasonable Person'' Test	378	(1)
Note	378	(1)
People v. Berry	379	(4)
Heat of Passion and Wife Killing: Men Who Batter/Men Who Kill	383	(5)
Donna K. Coker
Provoked Reason in Men and Women: Heat-of-Passion Manslaughter and Imperfect Self-Defense	388	(2)
Laurie J. Taylor
Note	390	(1)
Who Is ``The Reasonable Person''?	391	(1)
Note	391	(2)
Homophobia in Manslaughter: The Homosexual Advance as Insufficient Provocation	393	(1)
Robert B. Mison
When ``Heterosexual'' Men Kill ``Homosexual'' Men: Reflections on Provocation Law, Sexual Advances, and the ``Reasonable Man'' Standard	394	(3)
Joshua Dressler
Commonwealth v. Carr	397	(2)
The Model Penal Code's Extreme Emotional Disturbance Test	399	(1)
Note	399	(1)
State v. Dumlao	400	(6)
Note	406	(2)
Maryland Criminal Law Code §2-207	408	(1)
Depraved Heart Murder	408	(12)
Note	408	(1)
Commonwealth v. Malone	409	(2)
State v. Davidson	411	(7)
Note	418	(2)
Involuntary Manslaughter	420	(11)
Note	420	(1)
Commonwealth v. Welansky	420	(4)
Note	424	(1)
State v. Williams	425	(4)
Note	429	(1)
Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978	429	(2)
The Felony Murder Rule	431	(44)
Note	431	(1)
People v. Stamp	432	(3)
Note	435	(1)
Inherently Dangerous Felony Limitation	436	(1)
People v. Patterson	436	(5)
Hines v. State	441	(3)
The Res Gestae Requirement	444	(1)
Note	444	(1)
People v. Bodely	445	(2)
King v. Commonwealth	447	(4)
The Merger Doctrine	451	(1)
People v. Smith	451	(7)
Third Party Killings: The Agency Rule	458	(1)
State v. Canola	458	(6)
Note	464	(1)
Should the Common Law Felony Murder Rule Be Abolished?	464	(1)
Note	464	(1)
People v. Aaron	465	(10)
The Misdemeanor Manslaughter Doctrine	475	(3)
Note	475	(1)
Todd v. State	475	(3)
Sexual Offenses	478	(146)
Introduction	478	(1)
Forcible Rape	479	(78)
Note	479	(2)
The Element of Force or Threat of Force	481	(1)
Note	481	(1)
Rusk v. State	481	(10)
Note	491	(1)
State v. Alston	492	(5)
Commonwealth v. Berkowitz	497	(10)
Note	507	(2)
State of New Jersey in the Interest of M.T.S	509	(8)
What Counts (or should count) as Consent?	517	(1)
Note	517	(2)
In re John Z	519	(9)
The Antioch College Sexual Offense Prevention Policy	528	(2)
Toward a Right of Sexual Autonomy?	530	(1)
The Feminist Challenge in Criminal Law	530	(3)
Stephen J. Schulhofer
Note	533	(1)
State v. Scherzer	534	(8)
Boro v. Superior Court	542	(4)
Note	546	(1)
Rape and Race	547	(1)
The Social Construction of a Rape Victim: Stories of African-American Males About the Rape of Desiree Washington	547	(6)
Kevin Brown
Patriarchal Stories I: Cultural Rape Narratives in the Courtroom	553	(4)
Andrew E. Taslitz
Statutory Rape	557	(21)
Garnett v. State	557	(7)
State v. Yanez	564	(10)
Statutory Rape Laws: Does it Make Sense to Enforce Them in an Increasingly Permissive Society? (essays by Michelle Oberman and Richard Delgado)	574	(4)
Sodomy	578	(29)
Bowers v. Hardwick	578	(9)
Note	587	(1)
Beyond the Privacy Principle	587	(2)
Kendall Thomas
Lawrence v. Texas	589	(13)
People v. Samuels	602	(5)
Prostitution	607	(17)
Note	607	(2)
In re P	609	(14)
Note	623	(1)
Theft Offenses	624	(94)
Introduction	624	(1)
Theft	625	(16)
Note	625	(1)
Larceny	625	(1)
Note	625	(2)
Larceny by Trick	627	(1)
Note	627	(1)
Embezzlement	628	(1)
Note	628	(3)
False Pretenses	631	(1)
Note	631	(2)
Consolidated Theft Statues	633	(1)
Note	633	(1)
Commonwealth v. Mills	633	(8)
Aggravated Theft	641	(19)
Burglary	641	(1)
United States v. Eichman	641	(4)
State v. Thibeault	645	(5)
Note	650	(1)
Robbery	651	(1)
Crocker v. State	651	(2)
Miller v. Superior Court	653	(7)
Note	660	(1)
Beyond Theft	660	(41)
Note	660	(2)
Mail Fraud and Intangible Rights	662	(1)
Note	662	(1)
United States v. Margiotta	663	(15)
Note	678	(3)
Federal Criminal Fraud and the Development of Intangible Property Rights in Information	681	(8)
Geraldine Szott Moohr
Computer Crimes	689	(1)
Note	689	(1)
State v. Schwartz	689	(8)
Cybercrime's Scope: Interpreting ``Access'' and ``Authorization'' in Computer Misuse Statutes	697	(4)
Orin S. Kerr
Crimes of Propertylessness	701	(17)
The Right of Property and the Law of Theft	701	(2)
Michael E. Tigar
Pottinger v. City of Miami	703	(14)
Note	717	(1)
Criminal Law Defenses	718	(196)
Introduction	718	(2)
Justification Defenses	720	(87)
Note	720	(1)
Self-Defense	720	(1)
Note	720	(1)
Culverson v. State	721	(5)
Note	726	(1)
People v. Goetz	727	(6)
Note	733	(1)
State v. Simon	733	(3)
Murder and the Reasonable Man: Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom	736	(4)
Cynthia Lee
State v. Stewart	740	(11)
Note	751	(3)
Juries and Expert Evidence: Social Framework Testimony	754	(3)
Neil Vidmar
Regina A. Schuller
Note	757	(1)
State v. Wanrow	757	(4)
Imperfect Self-Defense	761	(1)
Note	761	(1)
Defense of Others	762	(1)
Note	762	(1)
People v. Young	762	(4)
Defense of Habitation	766	(1)
Note	766	(1)
People v. Brown	767	(6)
Defense of Property	773	(1)
Note	773	(1)
People v. Ceballos	773	(5)
Killer of Thief Wins Wide Support	778	(1)
Jeffrey Bair
Note	779	(1)
People v. Quesada	780	(3)
Note	783	(1)
Necessity	784	(1)
Note	784	(2)
United States v. Schoon	786	(5)
Commonwealth v. Hutchins	791	(6)
United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative	797	(5)
In re Eichorn	802	(5)
Note	807	(1)
Excuse Defenses	807	(71)
Note	807	(1)
Duress	808	(1)
Note	808	(1)
United States v. Contento-Pachon	809	(6)
State v. Hunter	815	(4)
Note	819	(1)
Insanity	820	(1)
Note	820	(2)
United States v. Freeman	822	(13)
State v. Crenshaw	835	(11)
Diminished Capacity	846	(1)
Note	846	(2)
Infancy	848	(1)
In re Devon T	848	(6)
Intoxication	854	(1)
Note	854	(1)
People v. Register	855	(8)
Montana v. Egelhoff	863	(11)
Commonwealth v. Smith	874	(4)
Other Defense Theories	878	(36)
Black Rage	878	(1)
Black Rage Confronts the Law	878	(5)
Paul Harris
Note	883	(1)
The ``Cultural Defense''	884	(1)
People v. Aphaylath	884	(1)
Cultural Evidence and Male Violence: Are Feminist and Multiculturalist Reformers on a Collision Course in Criminal Courts?	885	(4)
Holly Maguigan
(Mis)identifying Culture: Asian Women and the ``Cultural Defense''	889	(6)
Leti Volpp
Individualizing Justice Through Multiculturalism: The Liberals' Dilemma	895	(4)
Doriane Lambelet Coleman
Brainwashing	899	(1)
Ascription of Criminal States of Mind: Toward a Defense Theory for the Coercively Persuaded (``Brainwashed'') Defendant	899	(4)
Richard Delgado
Professor Delgado's ``Brainwashing'' Defense: Courting a Determinist Legal System	903	(4)
Joshua Dressler
Rotten Social Background	907	(1)
``Rotten Social Background'': Should the Criminal Law Recognize a Defense of Severe Environmental Deprivation?	907	(7)
Richard Delgado
Attempts	914	(31)
Introduction	914	(1)
The Actus Reus Requirement	915	(13)
People v. Rizzo	915	(2)
People v. Staples	917	(3)
State v. LaTraverse	920	(8)
The Mens Rea Requirement	928	(7)
People v. Harris	928	(3)
State v. Hinkhouse	931	(4)
The Defense of Impossibility	935	(10)
United States v. Thomas	935	(10)
Accomplice Liability (Complicity)	945	(16)
Introduction	945	(1)
Pace v. State	946	(3)
State v. Parker	949	(4)
Wilson v. People	953	(5)
Brewer v. State	958	(3)
Conspiracy	961	(84)
Introduction	961	(2)
The Agreement	963	(7)
State v. Pacheco	963	(7)
The Pinkerton Rule	970	(6)
Note	970	(1)
United States v. Mothershill	971	(5)
The Mens Rea of Conspiracy	976	(20)
Note	976	(1)
People v. Swain	976	(5)
People v. Lauria	981	(8)
United States v. Lanza	989	(5)
Note	994	(2)
The Shape and Boundaries of Conspiracies	996	(7)
Kotteakos v. United States	996	(6)
United States v. Bruno	1002	(1)
Special Defenses to Conspiracy: Withdrawal and Impossibility	1003	(11)
United States v. Read	1003	(8)
United States v. Recio	1011	(3)
Conspiracy and the Dangers of Collective Action	1014	(10)
Note	1014	(1)
Conspiracy Theory	1015	(8)
Neal Katyal
Note	1023	(1)
Conspiracy and Constitutional Values	1024	(21)
Dennis v. United States	1024	(11)
United States v. Rahman	1035	(5)
Note	1040	(5)
Corporate Criminal Liability	1045	(25)
Introduction	1045	(1)
Conceptual Issues in Corporate Criminal Responsibility	1045	(20)
State v. Chapman Dodge Center, Inc	1045	(9)
Corporate Ethos: A Standard for Imposing Corporate Criminal Liability	1054	(11)
Pamela H. Bucy
Practical Issues in Corporate Criminal Responsibility	1065	(5)
To Let the Punishment Fit the Organization: Sanctioning Corporate Offenders Through Corporate Probation	1065	(5)
Richard Gruner
Culture and Crime	1070	(98)
Introduction	1070	(2)
Crime as a Cultural Practice	1072	(11)
Criminal Law, Criminology, and the Small World of Legal Scholars	1072	(3)
Robert Weisberg
``The Black Community,'' Its Lawbreakers, and a Politics of Identification	1075	(4)
Regina Austin
Gender Violence, Race, and Criminal Justice	1079	(4)
Angela P. Harris
Punishment as a Cultural Practice	1083	(26)
Crime, Punishment, and Culture: A Humanities Perspective	1083	(1)
Making Sense of What We Do: The Criminal Law as a System of Meaning	1083	(3)
James Boyd White
Crime, Punishment, and Culture: A Social Science Perspective	1086	(1)
Updating the Study of Punishment	1086	(9)
Tracey L. Meares
Neal Katyal
Dan M. Kahan
Note	1095	(1)
Reflecting on the Subject: A Critique of the Social Influence Conception of Deterrence, The Broken Windows Theory, and Order-Maintenance Policing New York Style	1096	(5)
Bernard E. Harcourt
The State, Criminal Law, and Racial Discrimination: A Comment	1101	(3)
Randall Kennedy
Drugs: It's a Question of Connections	1104	(5)
Tracey L. Meares
Legal Culture and the Administration of Criminal Justice	1109	(30)
Note	1109	(1)
Notes From the Front: A Dissident Law-Enforcement Perspective on Drug Prohibition	1110	(12)
John T. Schuler
Arthur McBride
The Agony of Ecstasy: Reconsidering the Punitive Approach to United States Drug Policy	1122	(5)
Amanda Kay
Policing Possession: The War on Crime and the End of Criminal Law	1127	(3)
Markus Dirk Dubbber
Principled Enforcement of Penal Codes	1130	(9)
Erik Luna
Culture in the Courtroom	1139	(13)
A Justification of the Cultural Defense as Partial Excuse	1139	(8)
Alison Dundes Renteln
On Culture, Difference, and Domestic Violence	1147	(5)
Leti Volpp
Changing the Culture of Criminal Punishment	1152	(16)
A Future Where Punishment Is Marginalized: Realistic or Utopian?	1152	(3)
John Braithwaite
Note	1155	(2)
Book Review Essay: Judging in a Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts	1157	(8)
Charity Scott
Note	1165	(3)
Appendix: Model Penal Code	1168	(62)
Index	1230