Appeal from jury or judge trial: defendants' advantage

Toxicology: judge data or dollars?

activity of DDT analogs and polychlorinated biphenyls. levels of organochlorine residues and risk of breast cancer. Environmental hormone disruptors: evidence that vinclozolin developmental toxicity is mediated by antian-drogenic metabolites. Dietary estrogens act through estrogen receptor-mediated processes and show no antiestrogenicity in cultured breast cancer cells. The knowledge gained by ...

Criminal Procedure: Negligent Suppression of Evidence as Ground for New Trial in Federal Criminal

IN United States v. Consolidated Laundries Corp.' the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has expanded the scope of the public prosecutor's duty to secure a fair trial to defendants in criminal proceedings. A new trial was ordered on the finding that material evidence had been "negligently suppressed." Consolidated arose as an antitrust prosecution against a number of linen supply companies...

Juror Typologies and DNA Comprehension:Who Benefits from Jury Trial Innovations?

Competency restoration treatment: differences between defendants declared competent or incompetent to stand trial.

Archival data of inpatient defendants referred for competency restoration were used to make comparisons between those who were restored to competency (CST; n = 43) and those who remained incompetent (IST; n = 15). The groups did not differ on demographic variables, intellectual capacity, type of offense (violent versus nonviolent), clinical diagnoses, substance abuse, or psychotic symptomatolog...

Protein Degradation or Regulation: Ub the Judge

Given the central importance of ubiquitin to proteoly-sis, it is somewhat ironic that the first protein shown to The University of Chicago Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology be modified by ubiquitin was histone H2A, a polypeptide that is degraded only very slowly in vivo (Goldknopf and 920 East 58th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 Busch, 1977). In this and more recent examples (see...