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353. Unbalanced

By Joel Jacobsen

While recently clearing a layer of wood-pulp debris from my office ("Don't toss that!  It might come in handy some day."), I came across a law review article by Richard D. Friedman, Framer of the current sixth amendment.  Friedman has written a few gazillion articles about the confrontation clause -- in fact, it's difficult to find a recent article about the confrontation clause that he didn't write -- but this one was published before the March, 2004 constitutional convention that amended the amendment.  (Surprisingly few delegates showed up.  Only nine, in fact.)It's about the forfeiture principle, the subject of a forthcoming Supreme Court opinion, Giles v. California, which is featured prominently in Professor Friedman's blog...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on April 06, 2008 (boomark / email).