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

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

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

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

Volunteering + Values: A Repair the World Report on Jewish Young Adults

Presents survey findings on young Jewish adults' commitments to, attitudes toward, and concerns and motivations in volunteering, including views on the links between service and Jewish identity and values. Outlines implications for boosting volunteering

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

Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

This article compares the developments of the Internet and the Web with those of education. The web influences people\u27s way of thinking, doing and being, and people influence the development and content of the web. The evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and now to Web 3.0 can be used as a metaphor of how education should also be evolving, as a movement from Education 1.0 towards that of Education 3.0. The Web, Internet, Social Media, and the evolving, emerging technologies have created a perfect storm or convergence of resources, tools, open and free information access. The result is not only a change in what individuals learn but how, why, and where they learn. Taking this one step further, or from another angle, moving from Education 1.0 to Education 3.0 can be likened to moving from Pedagogy/ Essentialism/ Instructivism through Andragogy/ Construttivism towards Heutagogy/ Connectivism. Source materials and content for this article, and the associated graphics come from Education 3.0: Altering Round Peg in Round Hole Education (http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/education-3-0-altering-round-peg-in-round-hole-education)

Neutrino spin relaxation in medium with stochastic characteristics

The helicity evolution of a neutrino interacting with randomly moving and polarized matter is studied. We derive the equation for the averaged neutrino helicity. The type of the neutrino interaction with background fermions is not fixed. In the particular case of a tau-neutrino interacting with ultrarelativistic electron-positron plasma we obtain the expression for the neutrino helicity relaxation rate in the explicit form. We study the neutrino spin relaxation in the relativistic primordial plasma. Supposing that the conversion of left-handed neutrinos into right-handed ones is suppressed at the early stages of the Universe evolution we get the upper limit on the tau-neutrino mass.Comment: 6 pages, RevTeX4; 2 references added; more detailed discussion of correlation functions and cosmological neutrinos is presented; version to be published in Int. J. Mod. Phys.

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