CLS Newsletters

• February 2009 PDF
• January 2009 PDF
• December 2008 PDF
• October-November 2008 PDF
• August-September 2008 PDF
• June-July 2008 PDF
• May 2008 PDF
• March-April 2008 PDF
• January 2008 PDF
• September 2007 PDF
• June 2007 PDF
• April 2007 PDF
• February 2007 PDF
• January 2007 PDF
• December 2005 PDF

Reports

Criminal Law Journal

• Criminal Law Journal 2003
  
• Criminal Law Journal 2001-2002
  

Criminal Legislation Updates
Thomas Robertson, Executive Director, Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council

• 2004 Criminal Legislation Updates PDF
• 2003 Criminal Legislation Updates PDF
• 2002 Criminal Legislation Updates PDF

“State of the Law” / “Year in Review”
Timothy Baughman, Wayne Co. Prosecuting Attorney’s office

• 2004: The Year in Review PDF
• 2002-2003 State of the Law: Criminal Law and Procedure PDF
• 2000-2001 State of the Law: Criminal Law and Procedure PDF

Seminar Handouts

Criminal Law Section President’s Day Weekend Ski Conference
February 15 - 17, 2009

• Issues Involving Child Witnesses, Statements of Children, and Confrontation - Hon. Daniel P. Ryan PDF 5.2MB
• Child Witnesses: Hearsay - Hon. Daniel P. Ryan PDF
• Cross-Examination: A Revealing Conversation with a Witness - Hon. Christopher P. Yates PDF
• Criminal Law and Procedure Update: 2008 Decisions - Kym L. Worthy and Timothy A. Baughman PDF

Criminal Law Update

• 2004 Criminal Legislation Update - Thomas Robertson, Executive Director, Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council
  
• 2004: The Year in Review - Timothy Baughman, Wayne Co. Prosecuting Attorney’s office

Crawford v Washington

• A Prosecutor’s Initial Look at Crawford v Washington: Everyone Out of the Poole? - Timothy Baughman, Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney’s office
  
• Crawford v Washington: Reframing the Right to Confrontation - Jeffrey L. Fisher, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, WA
  
• Crawford v Washington: The Unresolved Issues - David A. Moran, Wayne State Univ. Law School
  
• Crawford and the Confrontation Clause: An Analytical Outline - Jerrold Schrotenboer, Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney’s office
  
• When Bad Appeals Make Bad Law - Roger Canaff, American Prosecutor's Research Institute

Sentencing Issues: Blakely v Washington / US v Booker / Fanfan

• A Prosecutor’s View of Blakely v Washington - Timothy Baughman, Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney’s office
  
• Blakely / Booker Discussion - Anne Yantus, SADO

Articles

Drunk Driving

• .08 and Other Changes (563 kb) - Patrick T. Baron and Jeffrey S. Crampton – MBJ 2004 February
  
• Alcohol-Related Offenses: Retrograde Extrapolation After Wager - J. Nicholas Bostic – MBJ 2000 June
  
• Changes in Drunk Driving Laws - John Reiser - CLJ 2001-2002
  
• Healing Drunk Drivers: Michigan’s OUIL/Sobriety Drug Courts - Hon. Harvey J. Hoffman – MBJ 2003 January
  
• Repeat Offender Driving Reform: Summary of Key Elements and Practice Tips - Elaine H. Charney – MBJ 2000 July
  
• Understanding Quantitative Blood Alcohol Testing - Patrick T. Baron and Jeffrey S. Crampton – MBJ 2003 August

Evidence

• Computer Generated Visual Evidence: The Future is Now - William M. Worden – CLJ 2003
  
• Implications and Illumination of MRE 404(b) Other Acts Evidence - William M. Worden – CLJ 2001-2002
  
• Trial on the Cheap: Using Physical and Demonstrative Evidence That Doesn’t Cost a Bundle - John Beason and Matthew Paul Smith

Habeas

• Keeping Habeas in Mind: The Importance of Raising and Exhausting Federal Issues in State Criminal Cases - David A. Moran and F. Martin Tieber – CLJ 2001-2002
  
• Keeping Habeas in Mind: What State Judges and Prosecutors Don’t Know Can Hurt Them - Jerrold Schrotenboer – CLJ 2003

Immigration

• Criminal Immigration – The Consequences of Criminal Convictions on Non-U.S. Citizens - Ronald Kaplovitz – CLJ 2001-2002

Insanity / Criminal Responsibility

• Assessment of Competency to Stand Trial & Criminal Responsibility - Dan Swerdlow-Freed – CLJ 2003
  
• The Legal Insanity Defense in Michigan after People v Carpenter, 464 Mich 223 (2001) - Kimberley Reed Thompson – CLJ 2001-2002
  
• The Untimely Death of Michigan’s Diminished Capacity Defense: People v Carpenter - Kimberley Reed Thompson – MBJ 2003 February

Police

• Innovative Use of Investigative Subpoena Laws by the Kalamazoo County and Michigan Law Enforcement Agencies to Solve Cold-Cases - Stuart L. Fenton – CLJ 2001-2002
  
• When the Cop Becomes the Suspect: A Primer on Garrity - Mark A. Porter – CLJ 2001-2002

Prisons / Parole

• Barriers to Reentry: Legal Strategies to Reduce Recidivism and Promote he Success of Ex-offenders - Miriam J. Aukerman – CLJ 2003
  
• Does a Politically Appointed Parole Board Cost Michigan Citizens Hundreds of Millions of Dollars? - Daniel E. Manville – CLJ 2001-2002
  
• Unfair Parole Board Interpretation of Lifer Law - Paul C. Louisell – CLJ 2003

Procedure

• Evaluating Witness Credibility in Preliminary Examinations - Hon. Mark A. Randon and Timothy Gardner, Jr. – CLJ 2003
  
• Our Supreme Court’s Abdication of Law Making Authority over Criminal Procedure and Substantive Criminal Law - Alan Saltzman – CLJ 2001-2002

Research

• Effective Legal Research in Criminal Cases - Randy E. Davidson – MBL 2000 August

Sentencing

• After Apprendi … - Jerrold Schrotenboer – CLJ 2001-2002
  
• Legislative Sentencing Guidelines: Michigan’s Transition to a Limited-Discretion Sentencing Scheme - Anne Yantus – CLJ 2001-2002
  
• Michigan’s Sentencing Guidelines - Sheila Robertson Deming – MBJ 2000 June

Miscellaneous

• Can a Polygraph Help Your Client? - James W. Bassett – MBJ 2002 October
  
• Guide to New Anti-Terrorism Laws - Karen Dunne Woodside and Alan Gershel – CLJ 2001-2002
  
• The Source of Law: Where Do Principles of Criminal Law and Procedure Come From? - Timothy A. Baughman – CLJ 2001-2002
  
• Why Go to Trial If You Don’t Have To? - cases listed in CLS 2002 Ski Conference’s Pre-Trial Motions seminar