What can information about a horror, a literally unheard-of one, mean to the human brain, which is unprepared to receive it because it concerns a crime that is without precedent in the history of humanity?
His sole foray onto Broadway, "The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks," concerned a bizarre crime committed in the name of opposition to the war policy of President Richard M. Nixon; it fared poorly, closing after five performances in 1972.
While the Apprendi decision concerned a hate-crime law, its biggest effect has been on federal drug sentencing.
The thriller, derived from a Philip K Dick short story, concerns a future in which crime is detected before it happens by a team of "precogs" – humans who can see the future.
The Federal Witness Protection Program provides for the relocation and protection of a witness or potential witness of the federal or state government in an official proceeding concerning organized crime or other serious offenses.
But extraditing anybody usually requires the deed concerned to be a crime in both countries.
Instead, the state has chosen to only enforce the portion of the law that concerns "solicitation" of a crime against nature.
A 1996 law concerning war crimes allows prosecutions for violations of some provisions of the Geneva Conventions, including those prohibiting torture, "outrages upon personal dignity" and "humiliating and degrading treatment".
By arguing in this instance that the 404(b) material will be used to demonstrate the motive for the document destruction, the government is essentially arguing that the evidence concerns an element of the suspected crime that the jury needs to understand to reach a verdict.
"When you have a crime concerning children, it's hard," Ms. Rivera said last week.
As with most analytical work concerning crime, the objectives of such research are both theoretical, in improving the understanding of the process leading to the crime, and practical, in using the insights gained in order to prevent future crime.
