Lynn Fitch is the attorney general of Mississippi. The American Law Institute last month chose to unravel decades of progress that prosecutors, law enforcement, and victims’ advocates have made in the ...

The Model Penal Code is one of the most important developments in American law, and perhaps the most important influence on American criminal law. Conceived as a way to standardize and organize the ...

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In the US Model Penal Code, a suspect's state of mind while committing a crime can drastically affect the punishment they receive. Specifically, someone who knew that what they were doing was wrong ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric A. Johnson of University of Illinois School of Law discusses the recent Criminal Code Improvement Act … In November 2015, the House Judiciary Committee voted to send “The ...