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MISSISSIPPI LAW JOURNAL SYMPOSIUM Foreword Thomas K. Clancy Perspective from the Bench on theValue of ClinicalAppellate Training of Law Students Ruggero J.Aldisert A Model Program for Establishinga 1993 CriminalAppeals Clinic atYour Law School: More Bang for the Buck Phillip W. Broadhead The Criminal/Juvenile Clinic as a Public Interest Law Office: Defense Clinics;The BestWaytoTeach Justice Thomas F. Geraghty When Clinicsare "Necessities, Not Luxuries": Special Challenges of Running a CriminalAppeals Clinic in a Rural State Diane E. Courselle The ClinicianAs Ethical Role Model in the CriminalAppellate Litigation Clinic J. Thomas Sullivan Confessions of anAssistant Public Defender Turned CriminalAppeals Clinic Professor Howard K. Blumberg The EvolutionThrough Experience of Criminal Clinics: The CriminalAppeals Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School's Remington Center John Pray andByron Lichstein The New HampshireAppellate Defender Program: AnApprenticeship Clinic ChristopherM. Johnson On the Value of PrisonVisits with Incarcerated Clients Represented onAppeal bya Law School Criminal Defense Clinic Timothy H. Everett Teaching Effective OralArgument Skills: ForgetAbout the Drama Coach Michael Vitiello VOLUME 75 SPECIAL EDITION NUMBER 3 RECENTDECISIONS OFTHEMISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURTAND THEMISSISSIPPI COURTOFAPPEALS KeepyourofficeinformedwithasubscriptiontotheRecentDecisionsofthe Mississippi Supreme Courtand CourtofAppeals. 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To offer its contributors complete freedom, the Journal assumes no responsibility for the views expressed herein. Back issues of the Mississippi Law Journal may be ordered directly from William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1285 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14029- 1987. Orders may also be placed by calling William S. Hein & Co., Inc. at (800) 828-7571, via fax at (716) 883-8100 or email to [email protected]. Back issues are also available in PDF format through HeinOnline. Administrative Officers of the University of Mississippi ROBERT C. KHAYAT Chancellor CAROLYN ELLIS STATON Provost and Vice Chancellor forAcademicAffairs GLORIA Kellum Vice Chancellorfor UniversityAffairs ALICE CLARK Vice ChancellorforResearch and Sponsored Programs JOHNNY WILLIAMS Vice ChancellorforAdministration and Finance DON LUIS FRUGE PresidentICEO, The University of Mississippi Foundation TIMOTHY L. HALL Associate Provost THOMAS WALLACE Vice Chancellorfor Student Life Andrew P. Mullins, Jr. ExecutiveAssistant to the Chancellor SAMUEL M. Davis Dean ofthe School ofLaw, DirectorofLaw Center, Jamie L. Whitten ChairofLaw and Government and ProfessorofLaw The Law School Faculty GUTHRIE T. ABBOTT, ProfessorEmeritus andButler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens and Cannada Lecturer in Law Emeritus RICHARD L. BARNES, ProfessorofLaw and Leonard B. Melvin, Jr. Distinguished Lecturer in Law DEBORAH H. BELL, Professor ofLaw, Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Distinguished Lecturerand Directorofthe Civil Legal Clinic JOHN R. BRADLEY, ProfessorofLaw PHILLIP W. BROADHEAD, Director, ClinicalAppeals Program and Clinical Professor CHARLES BROWER, II, CroftAssociate ProfessorofInternational Law and Jessie D. Puckett, Jr. Lecturer in Law MERCER E. BUIXARD, Assistant ProfessorofLaw LARRY BUSH, ProfessorEmeritus ofLaw WILLIAM M. CHAMPION, ProfessorEmeritus and Mississippi Defense LawyersAssociation DistinguishedLecturerEmeritus K THOMAS CLANCY, Director oftheNational CenterforJustice and the Rule ofLaw and Visiting Professor ofLaw George C. Cochran, ProfessorofLaw AARON S. CONDON, ProfessorEmeritus ofLaw JOHN M. CZARNETZKY, Associate Professor ofLaw and Mitchell, McNutt, and Sams Lecturer DONNA DAVIS,Associate Professor ofLaw JASON DERRICK, ActingAssistant Professor ofLegal Writing KYLE DUNCAN, Assistant Professor ofLaw THOMAS R. ETHRIDGE, Professor Emeritus ofLaw D. MICHAEL FeathersTONE, Professor Emeritus ofLaw MOLLY FerGUSSON, ActingAssistant Professor ofLegal Writing JOANNE I. GABRYNOWICZ, Research Professorand Director ofthe National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center KRIS L. GlLLELAND, Director ofLaw Library andAssistant Professor ofLaw KAREN O. GREEN, ProfessorofLaw and Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Distinguished Lecturer MATTHEW R. Hall, Assistant Professor ofLaw TIMOTHY L. 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