Plea Bargaining and Prosecutorial Motives

This Article argues that the structure of the plea-bargaining system—which the Supreme Court recently recognized “is the criminal justice system”—hinges on something previously unappreciated by scholars and unaddressed in criminal procedure doctrine: prosecutors’ motives. This Article addresses that problem by studying the prosecutor’s disclosure obligations when defendants plead guilty. Courts and commentators have been divided for years over whether Brady v. Maryland applies when defendants plead guilty. But the current split blinds us to more important, and more vexing, aspects of the problem. The fact is, there already is a disclosure obligation, albeit a hidden one. Armed with an understanding of the dormant disclosure obligation, this Article then addresses tricky issues surrounding this problem and, in doing so, exposes the centrality of prosecutorial motives, which existing scholarship has not addressed. A full understanding of the role of prosecutorial motives in the plea-bargaining system solves several existing doctrinal puzzles—chief among them whether defendants can waive their right to disclosure—yields workable definitions of concepts like “impeachment” and “materiality,” and addresses issues that go to the heart of the plea-bargaining system

Evaluation of ignition mechanisms in selected spacecraft materials Final report, 1 Mar. - 30 Jun. 1967

Evaluation of ignition mechanisms for spacecraft materials in simulated spacecraft cabin atmosphere

Connected to Give: Key Findings

This is the first in a series of reports based upon the wealth of data from National Study of American Jewish Giving. The key findings represent the top level of information gleaned from the studies, but there is much more to be explored. In addition to findings that relate giving to demography and identity, there are additional data about specific populations, particular areas of interest, and individual modes of giving

Connected to Give: Jewish Legacies

This is the second report in the "Connected to Give" series, and compares Jews on all sides of planned giving -- those with and without wills, those whose wills do and do not contain provisions for charitable bequests, and those whose charitable bequests do and do not include Jewish causes

Becoming a Maker Educator

The Maker Movement is a global-do-it-yourself (DIY) movement of people who take charge of their lives, solve their own problems and share how they solved them (Roscorla, 2013). This movement is gaining traction in the educational sphere, in both formal (public and private K-16 schools) and informal educational environments (after-school programs, community makerspaces, libraries, museums, etc.). As such, there has been a corresponding increase in the number of articles about the Maker Movement and Maker Education in professional journals, as well as increased attention to the topic with-in school-related professional development activities and education conferences

A study of aircraft fire hazards related to natural electrical phenomena Final report, Jun. 1966 - Jul. 1967

Natural electrical phenomena as aircraft fire hazards, with study of flame propagation in fuel vent system

Field Redefinition Invariance in Quantum Field Theory

The issue of field redefinition invariance of path integrals in quantum field theory is reexamined. A ``paradox'' is presented involving the reduction to an effective quantum-mechanical theory of a $(d+1)$-dimensional free scalar field in a Minkowskian spacetime with compactified spatial coordinates. The implementation of field redefinitions both before and after the reduction suggests that operator-ordering issues in quantum field theory should not be ignored.Comment: 7 page

Evaluation of ignition mechanisms in selected nonmetallic materials

Test program evaluates thermal and electric ignition mechanisms in selected nonmetallic materials found in spacecraft with concentrated oxygen atmospheres. The phenomena evaluated were spontaneous ignition, ignition of flammable vapor by a spark, and ignition by an arc where the arc produces the combustible vapor and the ignition source

Nucleosynthesis constraints on heavy tau-neutrino in the presence of annihilations to majorons

We show that in the presence of sufficiently strong $\nu_\tau$ annihilations to majorons, primordial nucleosynthesis constraints can not rule out any values of the $\nu_\tau$ mass up the present laboratory limit.Comment: Talk given at TAUP 95, Toledo, Sept. 1995; 5 pages, LaTex file + 2 figures, all compressed by uufile