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work identifies two general categories of speech acts— constative speech acts and performative speech acts. Constative speech acts are sentences that
police. Under the statute then in force, Rhoades was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison and required to register as a sex offender. In January 2019
Reginald Dwayne Betts | Yale Law Journal Reginald Dwayne Betts Many read Justice Kennedy’s landmark Eighth Amendment sentencing cases to herald a
sentatives and the Senate. In addition, the Minnesota Revisor of Statutes pro- vides bill-drafting services to both houses of the legislature and
rather than on unsupported allegations or fears.”17 Such sentiments are in accord with the general practices of the Bureau of Citizenship and
that gap. Many read Justice Kennedy’s landmark Eighth Amendment sentencing cases to herald a fundamental change in how juveniles are treated in the
respondent was convicted and sentenced to death, his application for state habeas relief was denied, and the district court denied his federal habeas
Batson objection. After trial, respondent was convicted and sentenced to death, his application for state habeas relief was denied, and the district
“if it be found that the former decision is manifestly absurd or unjust, it is declared, not that such a sentence was bad law; but that it was not
honored in the breach. Only at sentencing do victims get to speak, and by then plea bargains have made the input of victims little more than window