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		<title>Who holds the discretion when determining whether someone has a justifiable legal defense?  Police Officers or Prosecutors?  Instead they focus on race relations.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/2012/04/22/who-holds-the-discretion-when-determining-whether-someone-has-a-justifiable-legal-defense-police-officers-or-prosecutors-instead-they-focus-on-race-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kunkel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by: Jade Morrison If Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by another black teenager, President Obama wouldn&#8217;t have weighed in, Al Sharpton wouldn&#8217;t be holding rallies, and the media would not be running this on television for hours. Liberals in the media like to show their good racial manners, they don&#8217;t shine a spotlight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crack v. Powder: A “Fair” Question</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/2012/04/20/crack-v-powder-a-fair-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kunkel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by:  Brandon Perloff In recent years, a drastic change in sentencing guidelines has taken place with regards to penalties imposed on the “crack” or “rock” versus the powder form of cocaine.  The Fair Sentencing Act, which President Obama signed into law in August of 2010, substituted the old guidelines in which an accused convicted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How accurate are cross-racial witness identifications?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/2012/04/19/how-accurate-are-cross-racial-witness-identifications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kunkel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by:  Tetra S. Shockley The Teach Your Jurors Well: Using Jury Instructions to Educate Jurors About Factors Affecting the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony article articulates the challenges of convictions based solely on eyewitness testimony.  Mistaken identity from eyewitness testimony is the single largest cause of wrongful convictions in capital cases.  One of the greatest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kept Promises? Grutter &amp; Diversity</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/2012/04/12/kept-promises-grutter-diversity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kunkel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by: Stephen Mahan When the Grutter decision upheld affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School, many commentators hailed it as a step forward in race-relations.  Our own law school, Widener, has taken steps to further encourage and foster diversity within its halls, in the hopes of obtaining those educational benefits associated with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inner-City School District Facing Potential Closure in the Midst of Financial Woes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/2012/04/11/inner-city-school-district-facing-potential-closure-in-the-midst-of-financial-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kunkel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by:  Patrick Gallo The Chester Upland School District is a midsized, urban public school district that has one of the highest student poverty rates in Pennsylvania. Under the guidance of their newly elected school board, the Chester Upland School District is in the midst of a financial meltdown. The meltdown stems from a growing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ready, Aim, Fire?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/2012/04/09/ready-aim-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kunkel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by: Amy C. Hummler The Ready, Aim, Fire? District of Columbia v. Heller and Communities of Color article presumes that the Supreme Court’s failure to articulate a standard of review or what constitutes a reasonable regulation of firearms will likely increase litigation on a municipality’s ability for regulating the possession and use of firearms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Disparate Impact of the One Strike Eviction Policy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/2012/04/08/the-disparate-impact-of-the-one-strike-eviction-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kunkel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by:  Shloka Joshi “The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” – Maya Angelou Authors Wendy Kaplan and David Rossman, professors at Boston University’s Law School, recently examined the issue of juvenile delinquency and its effects on a family’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Strike and You&#8217;re Out!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/2012/04/07/one-strike-and-youre-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kunkel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by:  Megan Hunsicker One strike and you’re out… what happened to three?  While strict liability maximizes deterrence and eases enforcement difficulties, the policy is a bit extreme when applied to the public housing context.  Kaplan’s article, entitled Called “Out” at Home: The One Strike Eviction Policy &#38; Juvenile Court discusses the federal government’s One Strike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to the New 2012-2013 Editorial Board!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/2012/04/06/2127/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kunkel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Widener Journal of Law, Economics &#38; Race is pleased to announce the new editorial board for the 2012-2013 academic year.  The incoming elected board members are as follows: Peter A. Galick &#8211; Co-Editor-in-Chief (DE) Vacant &#8211; Co-Editor-in-Chief (HSB) Scott F. Frame &#8211; Assistant Editor-in-Chief Jade Morrison &#8211; External Managing Editor Megan A. Hunsicker &#8211; Internal Managing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Voter ID Law Passed in PA</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/2012/04/04/new-voter-id-law-passed-in-pa/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/2012/04/04/new-voter-id-law-passed-in-pa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Kunkel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by:  Katelyn McKenzie Pennsylvania recently passed a law requiring specific photo identification in order to vote.  People without the requisite form of ID may still vote “provisionally,” but must return within six days with the proper form of identification in order to have their vote count. Gov. Tom Corbett contends that this law is [...]]]></description>
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