Season 6: Introduction
Dialectic UCLA Law Review · Season 6: Introduction Welcome to Dialectic Season 6, Law, Media, and Social Advocacy.
When Does Questioning Related to Immigration Status Constitute a Miranda Interrogation?
Abstract This Essay puts forward a two-element argument that noncitizen defendants can use to establish that they have been interrogated for Miranda purposes when they have been questioned about their immigration status by Immigration and Customs...
Pandemic Possibilities: Rethinking Measures of Merit
Abstract The impact of the spread of the novel coronavirus in the United States beginning in winter 2020 has simultaneously laid bare vast chasms of inequality in education and created a crisis in which radical reforms have become possible almost...
Killing Due Process: Double Jeopardy, White Supremacy and Gang Prosecutions
Abstract The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution holds that no person shall be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb for the same offense. Read plainly, a person cannot be tried or punished more than once for a single crime. Yet in recent...
Introduction: Jailhouse Lawyering
Jailhouse lawyering has a long and radical tradition in the American prison system, and for decades, it has been recognized and protected by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Johnson v. Avery,[1] the Court struck down Tennessee’s restrictions on jailhouse...
Barriers to Jailhouse Lawyering
Abstract Jailhouse lawyers face unreasonable barriers to have their constitutional claims heard post-conviction. Courts, without adequate regard for the physical limitations inherent behind bars, place procedures over justice. *** They say that a...