Vol. 87 No. 3, March 1997

Index

• Foreword: Montana v. Egelhoff - reflections on the limits of legislative imagination and judicial authority.
• The Supreme Court rejects Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment protection against the forfeiture of an innocent owner's property.
• Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not keep house.
• Sword or shield: due process and the fugitive disentitlement doctrine.
• A case for harmless review of Ake errors.
• Pleas, plain language and precedent: applicability of Rules 11(f) and 31(e) to criminal forfeiture provisions.
• Defining "use" of a firearm.
• "Could" this be the end of Fourth Amendment protections for motorists?
• Maybe soldiers have rights after all!(Supreme Court Review)
• Goodbye to the defense of selective prosecution.
• Changing the tide of double jeopardy in the context of the continuing criminal enterprise.
• Protecting first federal habeas corpus petitions: closing the opening left by Gomez.
• Rejecting the clear and convincing evidence standard for proof of incompetence.
• When rules are more important than justice.