TAMAR EZER,* FRANCO PICCININI,** & DAVID STUZIN*** 75 U. Mia. L. Rev. Caveat 1 (2020). PDF Version Across the globe and throughout the United States, governments use petty offenses, such as loitering laws, to exert social control over marginalized communities. Petty offenses enable the policing of public spaces to reinforce social hierarchies and rigid gender […]
KATE MOGULESCU* 74 U. Miami L. Rev. Caveat 68 (2020). PDF Version This Article examines the problems inherent in policing under laws criminalizing loitering for the purpose of prostitution (“LPP”). LPP laws rely on dated notions of appearance, gender expression, and sexual behavior that are weaponized against marginalized communities and individuals. New York’s LPP law, […]
MELANIE KALMANSON* 74 U. Miami L. Rev. Caveat 37 (2020). PDF Version The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Hurst v. Florida was a “hurricanic constitutional event” for capital sentencing, especially in Florida. After the storm made landfall—invalidating Florida’s capital sentencing scheme based on the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a trial by jury—the Supreme Court of […]
ANNEKE MEERKOTTER* 74 U. Miami L. Rev. Caveat 1 (2020). PDF Version For centuries, and across the world, penal laws have been used to regulate urban spaces, with a cruel focus on relegating poor and marginalized groups from such spaces. Criminal laws, particularly vagrancy offenses, have consistently been used to arrest, detain, evict, or put […]
VINCENT R. JONES,* 69 U. Miami L. Rev. Caveat 27 (2015). In response to Vincent R. Jones & Bruce Wilson,Innocence and Its Impact on the Reassessment of the Utility of Capital Punishment: Has Time Come to Abolish the Ultimate Sanction?, 67 U. Miami L. Rev. 469 (2013). One of the most controversial issues in criminal law is capital punishment. Often called the […]
