This article presents the results of an empirical study designed to assess degree convergence and divergence between public opinion fictional Fair Minded Observer (FMO) test used determine whether a judge ought be disqualified on grounds possible bias. As part test, judges imagine FMO would see risk bias judge. To extent that is partly meant reflect perception, obvious weakness in no one has te...

VOIR DIRE EFFICACY IN HIGHLY PUBLICIZED CRIMINAL CASES by DAVID M.ZIMMERMAN Adviser: Margaret Bull Kovera Whether judges and attorneys are able to detect bias among potential jurors (venirepersons) is a pivotal concern in highly publicized cases in which most of the jury pool has been exposed to pretrial publicity (PTP). The current dissertation research addressed 1) whether attorneys and judge...

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We study monitoring of visibly context-free properties. These properties reflect the common concept of nesting which arises naturally in software systems. They can be expressed e.g. in the temporal logic CaRet which extends LTL by means of matching calls and returns. The future fragment of CaRet enables us to give a direct unfolding-based automaton construction, similar to LTL. We provide a fou...

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The Constitutional Court ruling on the third amendment to Law is worth discussing. In judicial review, justices judged a case in which they have interests. interests are related requirement for being justice, term of office justices, and chief justice deputy justice. Can be impartial? This study aimed at three things. First, analyzing their interpretation through legal annotation. Second, ident...