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33 Am. J. Crim. L. 31 (2005-2006)
Reforming the Criminal Rap Sheet: Federal Timidity and the Traditional State Functions Doctrine

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Reforming the Criminal Rap Sheet: Federal
Timidity and the Traditional State Functions
Doctrine
Mary De Ming Fan*
Table of Contents
I.     Introduction  ............................................................................................  32
II.    The Rise, Demise and Resurrection of the Traditional State Functions
D octrine  .................................................................................................   33
A .  The  Startling  R ise  ...........................................................................  33
B.   The  Ostensible  Dem ise ..................................................................   37
C.   The  Stealth  Revival ........................................................................ 42
1. Reincarnation as a Canon Crippling the Reach of Legislation ...... 42
2. Reincarnation as a Rule of Constrictive Reading of
Congressional Legislative Power ............................................ 46
III.   Federal Tiptoeing In Traditional State Spheres and the Flawing of the
Crim inal R ap  Sheet ................................................................................   50
A .  The  Rap  Sheet's Role ....................................................................   50
B.   Federal Timidity in Managing Rap Sheet Reporting ..................... 53
IV .   Federal Tim idity's Costs ........................................................................ 60
A.   The Standards Patchwork and Persistent Data Quality Problems ........ 60
B .  The  Cost to  Justice .........................................................................   63
V.     Developing the National Coordination and Leadership Principle ...... 66
A. The Countervailing Bright-Line Rule ............................................ 66
B.   Practical Application-Reforming the Criminal Rap Sheet ........... 69

* Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of California. J.D., Yale Law School. B.A., University of
Arizona. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not represent nor necessarily
reflect the position of the Department of Justice.  Thanks to Roger W. Haines, Jr., for thoughtful
comments.

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