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The Murder of Father James Coyle, the Prosecution of Edwin Stephenson, and the True Calling of Lawyers
The Great Writ and Federal Courts: Judge Wood\u27s Solution in Search of a Problem
Judge Diane Wood provides, in her characteristically efficient prose, a thoughtful overview of the history of the Great Writ in service of a thesis that her essay otherwise fails to support. Judge Wood invokes Judge Henry Friendly’s classic article, Is Innocence Irrelevant? Collateral Attack on Criminal Judgments, to suggest that the writ of habeas corpus should be expanded to allow federal courts to review the petitions of state prisoners who allege their actual innocence without otherwise identifying any violation of federal law in securing their convictions. But that thesis cannot be squared with the proposal Judge Friendly championed in his article. Nor is it consistent with the limited jurisdiction of the federal courts. And Judge Wood’s essay fails to make the case for how her proposed expansion of the writ would work or whether it would even likely result in the grant of relief to a substantial number of prisoners whose innocence would otherwise go undetected. If anything, Judge Friendly’s case for restricting the writ remains compelling though unfulfilled
The Murder of Father James Coyle, the Prosecution of Edwin Stephenson, and the True Calling of Lawyers
2014 Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture: The Separation of Powers and the Federal and State Executive Duty to Review the Law
2007 National Lawyer’s Convention The Federalist Society \u3cem\u3eand its\u3c/em\u3e Federalism and Separation of Powers Practice Groups \u3cem\u3epresent a panel debate on\u3c/em\u3e Federalism: Religion, Early America and the Fourteenth Amendment
Transcript of the Federalist Society and its Federalism and Separation of Powers Practice Groups panel debate at the 2007 National Lawyers Convention including panelists Dean John Eastman of Chapman University School of Law, Professor Marci Hamilton of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and moderated by Hon. William H. Pryor Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Overexpression of hMTH1 mRNA: a molecular marker of oxidative stress in lung cancer cells
AbstractHuman MutT homologue (hMTH1) mRNA was overexpressed in SV-40-transformed non-tumorigenic human bronchial epithelial cells (BEAS-2B cells) and in 11 out of 12 human lung cancer cell lines relative to normal human bronchial epithelial cells. Expression levels of hMTH1 mRNA were inversely proportional to cellular levels of 8-oxo-deoxyguanosine. Together, these results suggest that hMTH1 gene expression may represent a molecular marker of oxidative stress that could ultimately be used to elucidate the temporal relationships between oxidative stress, genomic instability and the development of lung cancer
Bovine Follicular Dynamics, Oocyte Recovery,and Development of Oocytes Microinjected with a Green Fluorescent Protein Construct
The present study was carried out to 1) evaluate the viability of in vitro fertilized zygotes after microinjection of DNA, 2) assess the influence of oocyte quality upon the development rate of embryos when injected with DNA, and 3) determine the integration frequency of green fluorescent protein DNA into microinjected embryos. Oocytes were aspirated from ovaries of nine nonlactating Holsteins and were categorized into grades A, B, C, and D. At 16 h after in vitro fertilization, approximately half of the pronuclear stage presumptive zygotes were classified as having 1 pronucleus or 2 pronuclei, and they were microinjected with DNA constructs. A potential predictor of DNA integration frequency at d 10 was assessment of the incidence of green fluorescing embryos. The proportion of cleaved embryos that developed to morulae or blastocysts was not different between groups with 1 pronucleus injected (45%), 1 pronucleus uninjected (64%), or 2 pronuclei injected (49%). However, the development of morulae or blastocysts was higher in the group with 2 pronuclei uninjected (69%). The overall developmental score of green fluorescent protein-positive embryos was higher for grade A oocytes (1.3 &#;&#;0.1) than for grade B (0.8 &#; 0.1), C (0.6 &#;&#;0.1), or D (0.3 &#;&#;0.1) oocytes. The results show that production of transgenic bovine blastocysts can occur from the microinjection of a presumptive zygote having only one visible pronucleus. Initial oocyte quality is an important factor in selection of oocytes suitable for microinjection of DNA and for preimplantation development to produce bovine transgenic embryos
Structural parameters for globular clusters in NGC 5128. III. ACS surface-brightness profiles and model fits
We present internal surface-brightness profiles, based on HST/ACS imaging in
the F606W bandpass, for 131 globular cluster (GC) candidates with luminosities
10^4 - 3 x 10^6 solar, in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128. Several
structural models are fit to the profile of each cluster and combined with
mass-to-light ratios from population-synthesis models, to derive a catalogue of
fundamental structural and dynamical parameters parallel in form to the
catalogues recently produced by McLaughlin & van der Marel and Barmby et al.
for GCs and massive young star clusters in Local Group galaxies. As part of
this, we provide corrected and extended parameter estimates for another 18
clusters in NGC 5128, which we observed previously. We show that, like GCs in
the Milky Way and some of its satellites, the majority of globulars in NGC 5128
are well fit by isotropic Wilson models, which have intrinsically more
distended envelope structures than the standard King lowered isothermal
spheres. We use our models to predict internal velocity dispersions for every
cluster in our sample. These predictions agree well in general with the
observed dispersions in a small number of clusters for which spectroscopic data
are available. In a subsequent paper, we use these results to investigate
scaling relations for GCs in NGC 5128.Comment: MNRAS, in press. 28 pages. Full data tables available at
http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/~dem/clusters.htm
The Kinematics of the Globular Cluster System of NGC 5128 with a New, Large Sample of Radial Velocity Measurements
New radial velocity measurements for previously known and newly confirmed
globular clusters (GCs) in the nearby massive galaxy NGC 5128 are presented. We
have obtained spectroscopy from LDSS-2/Magellan, VIMOS/VLT, and Hydra/CTIO from
which we have measured the radial velocities of 218 known, and identified 155
new, GCs. The current sample of confirmed GCs in NGC 5128 is now 605 with 564
of these having radial velocity measurements. We have performed a new kinematic
analysis of the GC system that extends out to 45 arcmin in galactocentric
radius. We have examined the systemic velocity, projected rotation amplitude
and axis, and the projected velocity dispersion of the GCs as functions of
galactocentric distance and metallicity. Our results indicate that the
metal-poor GCs have a very mild rotation signature of (26 pm 15) km/s. The
metal-rich GCs are rotating with a higher, though still small signature of (43
pm 15) km/s around the isophotal major axis of NGC 5128 within 15 arcmin. Their
velocity dispersions are consistent within the uncertainties and the profiles
appear flat or declining within 20 arcmin. We note the small sample of
metal-rich GCs with ages less than 5 Gyr in the literature appear to have
different kinematic properties than the old, metal-rich GC subpopulation. The
mass and mass-to-light ratios have also been estimated using the GCs as tracer
particles for NGC 5128. Out to a distance of 20 arcmin, we have obtained a mass
of (5.9 pm 2.0) x 10^(11) M_(sun) and a mass-to-light ratio in the B-band of 16
M_(sun)/L_(B,sun). Combined with previous work on the ages and metallicities of
its GCs, as well as properties of its stellar halo, our findings suggest NGC
5128 formed via hierarchical merging over other methods of formation, such as
major merging at late times.Comment: Accepted for The Astronomical Journal, 14 pages plus 12 figures and 7
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