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Wesley Oliver

Duquesne Law School

Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship, Criminal Justice Program Director, and Professor of Law

600 Forbes Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15282

United States

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The Modern History of Probable Cause

Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-12
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 25 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2010
Wesley Oliver
Duquesne Law School
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probable cause, bill of rights, pleading requirement, New York city police

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The Neglected History of Criminal Procedure, 1850-1940

Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-26
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 31 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2009
Wesley Oliver
Duquesne Law School
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criminal procedure, history, search and seizure, interrogations, wiretapping, Prohibition, originalism

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Toward a Common Law of Plea Bargaining

Duquesne University School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-02
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 01 May 2013
Wesley Oliver
Duquesne Law School
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plea bargaining, Lafler v. Cooper, Missouri v. Frye, prosecutorial discretion, criminal procedure

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Magistrates' Examinations, Police Interrogations, and Miranda-Like Rules in the Nineteenth Century

Tulane Law Review, Vol. 81, p. 777, 2007, Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-14
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 13 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2008
Wesley Oliver
Duquesne Law School
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Miranda, Interrogation, Nineteenth Century, History

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Portland, Prohibition, and Probable Cause: Maine's Role in Shaping Modern Criminal Procedure

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 12 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2009
Wesley Oliver
Duquesne Law School
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Criminal Procedure, Fourth Amendment, Prohibition, Search and Seizure, History, Nineteenth Century

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Material Witness Detentions After al-Kidd

Kentucky Law Journal, Forthcoming, Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-26
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2011
Wesley Oliver
Duquesne Law School
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The Rise and Fall of Material Witness Detention in Nineteenth Century New York

NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2005, Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-24
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 01 Nov 2009
Wesley Oliver
Duquesne Law School
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nineteenth century, legal history, criminal procedure, material witness detention, al-Kidd v. Ashcroft, interrogation, police

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Wiretapping and the Apex of Police Discretion

Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-14
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 23 Apr 2010
Wesley Oliver
Duquesne Law School
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wiretapping, Framing era, New York wiretapping controversy of 1916

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Charles Lindbergh, Caryl Chessman, and the Exception Proving the (Potentially Waning) Rule of Broad Prosecutorial Discretion

Duquesne University School of Law Research Paper No. 2014-08
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 12 Aug 2014
Wesley Oliver
Duquesne Law School
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prosecutorial power, prosecutorial discretion, criminal law, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, Model Penal Code, statutory interpretation, complicity, felony murder rule, overcharging, incarceration epidemic, sentencing, scope of liability, Chessman, Burrage, Rosemond

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Brief of Amicus Curiae Wesley MacNeil Oliver in Support of the Petition for Writ of Certiorari in John Ashcroft v. Abdullah Al-Kidd

Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-22
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Jul 2010
Wesley Oliver
Duquesne Law School
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: Material Witness Detention, Legal History, Ashcroft, Al-Kidd, Pretext, Terrorism, September 11

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Bill Cosby, the Lustful Disposition Exception, and the Doctrine of Chances

Washington University Law Review, Forthcoming, Duquesne University School of Law Research Paper No. 2016-01
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 21 Jan 2016
Wesley Oliver
Duquesne Law School
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evidence, testimony, admissibility, sexual misconduct, sexual assault, modus operandi, sex crimes, lustful disposition exception, doctrine of chances, prior acts, propensity, intent exception, victims, rules of evidence