Perfect Justice: The Continuing Riptides and Crosscurrents in American Criminal Law

by Fleming, MacKlin

• ISBN13: 9780936285276
• ISBN10: 0936285273
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Haven Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
I Perfect Justice
The Ideal of Perfectibility	3	(12)
II The Mechanics of Perfect Justice
Perfectibility-The Courts Rewrite the Past	15	(10)
Perfectibility and Parallel Systems of Courts Operating on the Same Subject Matter	25	(14)
Preconviction Shuttles between Parallel Court Systems	39	(8)
Multiple Trials of the Same Cause	47	(6)
Multiple Reviews of the Same Issue	53	(8)
The Law's Delay-Sidetracking and Mainlining of Causes	61	(14)
The Law's Delay-Procrastination Through Rescheduling	75	(8)
Error-Incompetency of Counsel and Self-Representation	83	(12)
Error-Open Switches that Derail the Cause	95	(8)
The Vision of the Perfect Jury	103	(16)
III Perfect Justice in Operation
Due Process, Shocked Conscience, and Emanations from the Penumbra	119	(8)
Equal Protection of the Laws and Equality	127	(12)
The Retreat from Written Law and the Decline of Legislative Authority	139	(10)
The Irrelevance of Guilt	149	(10)
Trivialization of the Constitution and Judicial Avant-Gardism	159	(10)
Trial Judges as Children of Israel-Make Brick without Straw	169	(18)
IV Potential Remedies
The Workable Jury	187	(10)
One System of Review	197	(10)
Limited Use of Capital Punishment	207	(10)
L'envoi	217	(6)
Appendix A	223	(2)
Appendix B	225	(2)
Notes	227	(64)
Index	291