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Strauss-Kahn was a criminal case relating to allegations of sexual assault and attempted rape made by a hotel maid, Nafissatou Diallo, against Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the Sofitel New York Hotel on 14 May 2011.
24 gru 2013 · Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York City for alleged sexual assault of Nafissatou Diallo, a hotel housekeeper, presents a unique opportunity to contextualize Packer’s two models of the criminal process, and to examine the operation of the presumption of innocence in a criminal justice system where plea bargains dominate.
23 sie 2011 · The dishevelled, fraught-looking Mr Strauss-Kahn was paraded in front of the cameras, handcuffed, a move New York authorities defended as standard practice.
Strauss-Kahn was the director of the International Monetary Fund, a branch of the UN that differs from the World Bank and was a candidate for the presidency of France as a member of the socialist party. In May, he was arrested for allegedly raping a maid in a New York City hotel which he was staying.
15 lip 2013 · The U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged this reality in two notable criminal law decisions in 2012, Lafler v. Cooper and Missouri v. Frye, when it described the criminal process as “a system of pleas, not a system of trials”. People v. Strauss-Kahn is an ideal lens through which to examine this process.
Stage by stage, the Strauss-Kahn case illustrates how to counterbalance the presumption of guilt and give expression to the presumption of innocence in the pretrial period through vigilantly-invoked and enforced due process protections.
Recommendation for Dismissal, The People of the State of New York v. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 02526/2011 (August 22, 2011)3 The presumption of innocence may be the foundational principle of the American criminal justice system, but the presumption of guilt is its operational force. The U.S. Supreme
