Vol. 73, Issue 4, 2010

This article follows the efforts to overturn the conviction of William Richards for murdering his wife, Pamela Richards.

This article considers felon jury exclusion statutes, arguing that by unconditionally banning felon-jurors a majority of jurisdictions undermine their own rationales for expelling millions of Americans from the adjudicative process.

This study argues that state constitutional content—the basic rules of the game—influences the business of state supreme courts when it comes to civil appeals.

This article focuses upon a species of state constitutional rights to which there are no federal counterparts, positive constitutional rights, and the interpretation thereof by state courts.

This note analyzes the DEC’s statutory authority to implement the CO2 Budget Trading Program under its authority to regulate air pollution provided by the Air Pollution Control Act.

This study discusses the judicial restraint employed by federal and state courts, and that of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, while also analyzing current voting trends and statistics of the...