Obra: Harvard Law Review, VOLUME 128, FEBRUARY 2015, NUMBER 4, página 98

Artigo: A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS: BLACKSTONE, PROCEDURAL ASYMMETRY, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Autor: Laura I Appleman

In the end, with our system of rapid guilty pleas, vast race- and class-based outcome disparities, and harsh mandatory sentencing, we should still desire a little asymmetry favoring the defendant, even for those who are guilty. We may no longer reside in a Blackstonian world, where felony conviction automatically equals death, but we still live a world where felony conviction often means financial dissolution, disenfranchisement, and societal exile.