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J. Michael Martinez

Scoundrels

2023

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Chapter 5 “Do You Believe This Man Is a Crook? If He Is a Crook, Convict Him” S. 57-74

„… 57CHAPTER 5“Do You Believe This Man Is a Crook? If He Is a Crook, Convict Him.”THE TEAPOT DOME …” „… was convicted. Although the United States Supreme Court later reversed William J. Burns’s conviction …” „… asked. “If he is a crook, convict him. But can you believe that his mind was so corrupt that he …”

Preface

„… He Is a Crook, Convict Him”: The Teapot Dome Scandal 57 6 “I Am the Only Candidate Inspected by the …”

Bibliography S. 219-230

„… : Ivan R. Dee, 2008.Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. 87 (1810).“Florida Jury Convicts ‘Big Tony’ in 2001 …”

Notes S. 187-218

„… , 107–8.22. “Florida Jury Convicts ‘Big Tony’ in 2001 Businessman Murder,” Tampa Bay Times, July 1, 2015, n.p …”

Afterword S. 181-186

„… Marine Corps officer was convicted of multiple felonies, but the convictions were vacated, and he emerged …” „… Admiral John Poindexter, received presidential pardons or had their convictions reversed on appeal. These …” „… figures in the Trump administration were convicted of crimes based on a multiyear investigation by a …”

Chapter 13 “Everybody’s Trying to Get Me. It’s Unfair. Now Everybody’s Saying I’m Going to Be Impeached” S. 161-180

„… several Trump associates for improper ties with Russia and he secured convictions, but he could not …”

Chapter 12 “All He Was Worried about Was Jack. Jack Has to Get His Next Big Check” S. 151-160

„… “Little Tony” Ferrari was convicted of murder and conspiracy and sentenced to serve a life sentence. The …” „… Because of Abramoff’s extensive influence-peddling operation, two dozen people were convicted of …”

Chapter 11 “I Told the American People I Did Not Trade Arms for Hostages. My Heart and My Best Intentions Still Tell Me That’s True, but the Facts and the Evidence Tell Me It Is Not” S. 133-150

„… a plea bargain in exchange for two years of probation.69Admiral Poindexter was convicted of five …” „… appellate court overturned his convictions. Poindexter later started a software company.70 No one involved …” „… May 4, 1989, he was convicted on four charges. Sentenced to serve a three-year suspended prison term …”

Chapter 10 “I Have Been in Government Long Enough to Know That You Don’t Have to Ask the Question Explicitly to Know What the Message Is” S. 123-132

„… former executives Robert A. Mampel and Charlotte E. Masica, were convicted on rack-eteering charges …”

Chapter 9 “Money Talks in This Business, and Bullshit Walks” S. 115-122

„… political figures. Seven members of Congress—one senator and six House members—were con-victed of accepting …” „… ), and convicted con man Melvin Weinberg. (Balfore Archive Images / Alamy Stock Photo)THE ABSCAM SCANDAL …” „… believe his defenses. After deliberating for twenty-eight hours, the jurors convicted Williams of nine …”

Chapter 8 “I Am Not a Crook” S. 101-114

„… burglary.4Faced with certain impeachment and probable conviction, Nixon resigned as president, effective …” „… convicted at the conclusion of the trial on January 30, 1973.24 James W. McCord Jr. eventually wrote a …” „… convicted of one or more crimes.36Confronted with mounting calls to release the White House tapes, Nixon …”

Chapter 6 “I Am the Only Candidate Inspected by the United States Government and Found to Be 100 Percent Pure” S. 75-88

„… surprisingly, the governor and five coconspirators were convicted. Owing to the felony conviction, the North …” „… conviction was overturned on appeal. He was retried twice and even faced another trial for allegedly …” „… to Washington, DC, however, the Senate was concerned about his felony conviction. He was CHAPTER 6“I …”

Chapter 2 “If I Were to Name This, I Would Call It the Will o’ Wisp Treason” S. 27-38

„… and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the …”

Introduction and Acknowledgments S. 1-12

„… secure a conviction, while Burr’s reputation (such as it was) was obliterated, and historians were left …” „… conviction, Fall spent a year in prison, earning the dubi-ous distinction of becoming the first cabinet …” „… owing to his original felony conviction. Seated conditionally while a Senate committee investigated …”

Chapter 1 “The Day Will Come, When Another & a More Pure & Virtuous Legislature, Will Make Null & Void This Sale of Birthright” S. 13-26

„… and convicted of embezzling state funds, which he probably did to raise enough money to pay for the …”

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Helmut Satzger - Harmonisierung strafrechtlicher Sanktionen in der Europäischen Union

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Harmonisierung strafrechtlicher Sanktionen in der Europäischen Union

Series: Schriften zum Internationalen und Europäischen Strafrecht

Volume 41 2020

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Foffani, Viganò Country Report Italy S. 295-332

„… lieu of a custodial sentence, subject to the convict’s consent, in the event of conviction for minor …” „… of the consideration of the time spent by the convict in pre-trial custody 2.7.2. 324 Modification of …” „… purpose of these sanctions is incapacitation, aiming to prevent the convict from committing other offences …”

Caeiro, Costa Country Report Portugal S. 379-426

„… convict prior to the conviction is credited in the penalty to be served; if the penalty is a fine, the …” „… the accused or convict. Guilt It is also common ground that the guilt principle (nulla poena sine …” „… the social state (sozialer Rechtsstaat)40 and embodies the state’s duty of assistance to the convict …”

Bogdan Country Report Romania S. 427-454

„… until the date the conviction judgment remains final. Military demotion is mandatory to convicted …” „… be made on the basis of the seriousness of the offence and the threat posed by the convict, all of …” „… convicts criminal history; • the convicts conduct after committing the offence and during the trial; • the …”

Pérez-Barberá, Verde, Basso Overview of criminal sanctions in Argentina S. 565-576

„… be served in different prison facilities than those where convicts to prisión were accommodated and …” „… to be enforced pursuant to harder rules (e.g. convicts to reclusión were not eligible for release on …” „… our sanctions law should not only have a retribution purpose but also a preventive one. The convicted …”

Nieto-Martín, Muñoz de Morales Romero, Rodríguez Yagüe Country Report Spain S. 149-184

„… convictions are recorded in a public register (Register of convicts and rebels) governed by the Ministry of …” „… convict (Art. 37,4 CP-ES). 19 Arrest in case of failure to pay fines If the sentenced person does not pay …” „… imposed on convicts imprisoned for more than five years (Art. 53.3 CP- ES).20 b) c) d) ber; Judgment of …”

Satzger, Linder, Neumann, Zimmermann Questionnaire – Harmonisation of Criminal Sanctions in the EU S. 769-792

„… accepting a convict from another state for enforcement purposes? Is prison time served while awaiting …” „… Circumstances before commission of the offence prior convictions/commission of same or similar offences …” „… served in prison abroad (in case of extradition or acceptance of a convict from another state for …”

Elholm Country Report Denmark S. 77-108

„… court can convict the accused person (guilty verdict), but refrain from imposing a penalty …” „… Section 722 and 723). 1.3.5. Country Report Denmark 89 The court can convict the accused person (guilty …” „… scale is used as a basis for conviction/sentencing. Assessment by the judge (or exact prescription of …”

Satzger, Kaspar, Linder, Neumann Länderbericht Deutschland S. 109-148

„… imprisonment that accounts for as many days as daily rates have been imposed. With the convict’s agreement …” „… sentences imposed and diversionary measures are used for about 50 % of the offenders. A person convicted to …” „… case of convictions to lifetime imprisonment, conditional release is possible under specific conditions …”

Frände, Helenius, Suominen Country Report Finland S. 185-216

„… criminally liable. When a court convicts a person of an aggravated animal welfare offence, it shall at the …” „… Finland 189 tain conditions, the court may on request of the prosecutor order that the convicted person …” „… imposing such a ban if particularly weighty reasons exist. When a person is convicted of an animal welfare …”

Exemplary case concerning counterfeiting S. 795-796

„… Exemplary case concerning counterfeiting Basic case A, who has not been previously convicted …” „… convictions. B proceeds to use the counterfeit money in the following months to finance his extravagant …”

Asp, Holmgren Country Report Sweden S. 455-488

„… instances of recidivism, the statutory maximum of the offence of the ensuing conviction may be exceeded by …” „… probationary period of two years. According to the legislation, the convicted person is obliged to lead an …” „… not accountable (and therefore not capable of committing crimes) and are not convicted, but still can …”

Linder, Neumann, Pohlmann Comparative Conclusion S. 517-540

„… . In DK, lifetime sentences are possible, but not a common practice (only 1 to 2 convictions per year …” „… ; confiscation and forfeiture; notification of conviction. 23 In the Polish criminal code, the terms “main …” „… conviction. This concerns, for example, the loss of the right to hold or exercise a public office. The only …”

Fuchs, Zerbes, Stricker Länderbericht Österreich S. 47-76

„… offence and is crucial to the distinction between crimes and misdemeanours. Convictions to a certain level …” „… within the lower third of the penalty range. After conviction, a reduction of penalty is possible under …” „… economic capacity of the convicted person has deteriorated substantially. Conditional release on parole is …”

Zimmermann Strafrechtliche Sanktionen und das Recht der Europäischen Union: eine Bestandsaufnahme S. 577-614

„… account further (non-criminal) legal consequences of a criminal conviction, most importantly such …”

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Franz-Josef Deiters, Alex Fliethmann, Birgit Lang, Alison Lewis, Christiane Weller - Limbus – Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft Topos Australien / Topos Australia

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Limbus – Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft Topos Australien / Topos Australia

Series: Limbus. Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur und Kulturwissenschaft | Limbus. Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies

Volume 6 2013

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Gerhard Fischer The Governor-General’s Apology: Reflections on Anzac Day S. 13-32

„… achievements of the convicts and early settlers and mourn and commemorate the victims of convictry. And finally …” „… »manly« attributes; instead, he speaks of »pioneers«.9 But who were these pioneers, if not the convicts …” „… convict origins of the nation«. The same is true, of course, for the Anzac legend which replaced both …”

Daniela Ihl Australische Historiographie in der Form der Reportage. Egon Erwin Kischs Landung in Australien S. 193-208

„… unmenschlichen Bedingungen, unter den die Convict-Passagiere auf der Überfahrt zu leiden hatten, ist im Gegensatz …” „… Gründungsgeschichte, indem er die Erstbesiedelung durch britische Strafgefangene (convicts) re-kapituliert und dabei …”

Alan Corkhill Space, Place and Identity in the Australian Fiction of Friedrich Gerstäcker S. 141-156

„… ’ novels, as it includes encounters with escaped convicts, out-of-work swagmen, solitary cattle drovers and …” „… in Alexander Harris’ semi-classic Settlers and Convicts (1847), or even the recurring motifs of the …”

Birte Giesler Ab-Ort Australien? Literarische Imaginationen vom roten Kontinent als utopischer Gegenentwurf und Spiegelbild westlicher Zivilisation S. 69-90

„… never-never land of the interior, and to whatever romanticism they can find in aborigines, convicts …”

Diane Molloy »To sing, after this, would be a blasphemy«. Alex Miller’s Landscape of Farewell and Historical Representation S. 225-238

„… begins by trying to tell only the facts. However, his conviction that fiction is not the means to …” „… lacks the poetic touch, reminding Dougald of Nietzsche’s »conviction that the historian is devoid of the …”

Andrea Bandhauer, Maria Veber The ›Holy Household‹ at the Hermannsburg Mission, Central Australia S. 91-106

„… . Simpfendörfer’s overview of missionary convictions expressed in the correspondence and written documents of …”

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Hubertus Buchstein, Lisa Klingsporn - Otto Kirchheimer - Gesammelte Schriften

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Otto Kirchheimer - Gesammelte Schriften

Series: Otto Kirchheimer - Gesammmelte Schriften

Volume 3 2019

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[9.] [Rezension:] Hermann Mannheim: The Dilemma of Penal Reform [1940] S. 424-426

„… ordinary condition of a convict should be kept below the standard of the lowest strata of free people …” „… . Attenuated to a »principle of non-superiority«, already formulated by Jeremy Bentham, it allows the convicts …” „… of less-eligibility and to broaden the convicts’ chances of successful reintegration into society. In …”

[2.] Recent Trends in German Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency[1938] S. 117-125

„… Juveniles Convicted) Acquittals According to 3 JGG. (Percent of Convictions) Index of Criminality (Male …” „… . Juveniles Convicted (Percent of Total Convictions) Larcenies Committed by Youths (Percent of Total Larcenies …” „… , in: Report of the Commissioners of Prisons and the Directors of Convict Prisons for 1936, London 1938 …”

[4.] Sozialstruktur und Strafvollzug[1939] S. 128-392

[12.] Criminal Omissions [1942] S. 432-457

„… Relationships. – The duty to act is obvious when the law adopts only moral convictions the acceptance of which …” „… ] ment of a common aim, often imposes itself by the earnestness of its convictions not only on the …” „… life of the infant before birth could not be convicted of homicide when the child died after birth as a …”

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Monika Fludernik, Frank L. Schäfer - Erzählen und Recht / Narrative and Law

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Erzählen und Recht / Narrative and Law

Series: Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen

Volume 12 2022

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Claire Wrobel Penal Theory and Practice as Plot Matrix: From Jeremy Bentham’s Principles of Penal Law to Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last S. 213-232

„… houses. Neild also inspected hulks, i.e. ships which housed convicts and were used to relieve Britain’s …” „… , 252–253). Other tables compile statistics about the convict population, among them on convict emigration …” „… , convict mortality on the voyage and on the settlement, the number of lawful and unlawful returns from New …”

Jeanne Gaakeer The Criminal Charge: A Narratological Bow Tie? S. 129-150

„… , or rather to puncture their narrative: [...] a jury will only convict if the prosecution case …” „… on the convict’s back? In other words, is there the risk that the German concept of “Sachverhalte …” „… : A NARRATOLOGICAL BOW TIE? 139judge can re-qualify the facts and convict the defendant following …”

Frode Helmich Pedersen The Rhetorical Use of Plot-Construction in Judgments S. 151-162

„… convict the four defendants, given that one cannot relate the event of the actual killings nor identify …” „… by a court as a basis to convict people of murder. In Norway, as in many other legal jurisdictions …” „… much-discussed Orderud-case (2001/2002), where four people were convicted of “aiding and abetting” a shocking …”

Hans J. Lind Recht und Stimme von Oscar Wilde bis Anis Mohamed Ferchichi: Zu einem Problem der juristischen Verhandlung von fiktionaler Literatur S. 93-128

„… . 161–177.Bleier, Evan (2014) „Rap Lyrics Used to Convict South Carolina Man of Murder at Olive Garden …”

Monika Fludernik , Frank L. Schäfer Introduction S. 15-28

„… Pedersen reasons along similar lines. His focus is on a Norwegian case study which shows that a conviction …”

Klaus Stierstorfer Mahatma Gandhi’s Autobiographical Narration of the Law S. 233-248

„… senior counsel; and I was confirmed in my conviction that it was not impossible to practice law without …”

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