Volume 5, Issue 2 (Fall 2003)

Essay

Arthur D. Hellman, Assessing Judgeship Needs in the Federal Courts of Appeals: Policy Choices and Process Concerns

DEATH-PENALTY APPEALS AND POST-CONVICTION PROCEEDINGS

Charles B. Blackmar, Representing Death-Sentence Appellants

LaJuana Davis, Intelligence Testing and Atkins: Considerations for Appellate Courts and Appellate Lawyers

Eric M. Freedman, The Revised ABA Guidelines and the Duties of Lawyers and Judges in Capital Post-Conviction Proceedings

Andrew M. Hammel, Effective Performance Guarantees for Capital State Post-Conviction Counsel: Cutting the Gordian Knot

Articles

Sandra Schultz Newman & Scott E. Friedman, Appellate Mediation in Pennsylvania: Looking Back At the History and Forward To the Future

J. E. Côté, The Oral Judgment Practice in the Canadian Appellate Courts

Christopher Birch, The Connotation/Denotation Distinction in Constitutional Interpretation

Developments and Practice Notes

Stephen R. Barnett, No-Citation Rules Under Siege: A Battlefield Report and Analysis

Kenneth C. Bass, III, & Linda E. Alcorn, Critique and Consequences of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Holmes v. Vornado

Dan Schweitzer, Fundamentals of Preparing a United States Supreme Court Amicus Brief

Book Review

Mark R. Kravitz, Words to the Wise: David C. Frederick’s Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy