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Nursing responsibilities surrounding patient death are multifaceted. Law, organizational policies, scope of practice, and specific circumstances dictate required actions. Knowledge of physiological changes at death and postmortem procedures can facilitate this honorable duty of nursing care., Carol's heart was heavy that day. The physician had determined her patient was biologically dead. J.C.'s ventilator was going to be removed within the hour. He was only 37. No [...]

In May 2019, a married man was worried that his lover was going to tell his wife about their affair. He entered her home and shot her in the head [...]

I. INTRODUCTION Imagine that, in response to a growing public perception that homicides were too frequently going unpunished, (1) and that rules of evidence unreasonably insulated juries from the graphic [...], This Article considers Federal Rules of Evidence 413-415, which govern admissibility of similar crimes evidence in sexual assault and child molestation cases in federal courts. Enacted by Congress in 1995 despite the objections of the Judicial Conference, the American Bar Association, and many legal scholars, and in contravention of the established process for promulgating rules of procedure and evidence set out in the Rules Enabling Act, these rules carve an exception out of the rule against the use of propensity evidence where the acts are sexual in nature. In the ten years that the rules have been in effect, the issue that has emerged is the proper scope of trial court discretion to exclude similar acts evidence in sexual assault cases under the general supervisory authority of Rule 403. The issue invites a broader consideration of which branch of government ought to have primacy in the area of evidence rulemaking. Recent years have seen a contraction in the scope of congressional delegation contained in the Rules Enabling Act. This Article considers the question of which branch should enjoy rulemaking preeminence from the perspective not of power, but of institutional competence, considering the nature and purpose of particular evidentiary rules rather than determining the question categorically. I conclude that the rules regarding similar acts involve interests that are fundamentally judicial rather than legislative, and that, accordingly, courts should implement a robust Rule 403 balancing inquiry when presented with similar acts evidence under Rules 413-415.

WHEN A HOSPITALIZED individual dies, family members usually have too much on their minds to ever think of asking whether the remains of the deceased will be returned intact for [...]

Consent for autopsy is usually obtained by the consultant in charge of the case. Given the detailed information now required, should pathologists take on this role? The recent controversy about [...]

The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., today withdrew its motion to unseal the autopsy of murdered University of North Carolina student Eve Carson after prosecutors agreed to release the [...]