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- 1From:Criminal Justice (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCan They Do That? Understanding Prosecutorial Discretion Professional Practice Melba V. Pearson, Editor Various Authors (American Bar Association) This is for any lawyer, law student, or nonlawyer who wants to know the...
- 2From:TYL (Vol. 26, Issue 4)On May 9, 2022, rappers Young Thug and Gunna were among 28 defendants charged with conspiracy and street gang activity under Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). The evidence against them?...
- 3From:Case Western Reserve Law Review (Vol. 72, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe twenty-fifth anniversary of the enactment of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (1) provides an opportunity for a few observations. These reflections come not from systematic study, but from...
- 4From:Journal of Law and Health (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI. Introduction With contradictory trial testimony, no genetic fingerprint testing, and little to no questioning of his sexual partners' credibility, Michael Johnson or "[T]iger Mandingo" as he referred to himself on...
- 5From:Iowa Law Review (Vol. 107, Issue 3)ABSTRACT: This Article considers the soundness of the doctrine of absolute immunity as it relates to Brady violations. While absolute immunity serves to protect prosecutors from civil liability for good-faith efforts to...
- 6From:University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review (Vol. 80, Issue 1)This article examines the complex relationships between the Canadian jury composition, common law jury secrecy doctrines, and the accuracy of verdicts. Using wrongful convictions research, it advances two arguments: that...
- 7From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 111, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe conflict between personal liberty and collective security has challenged Americans throughout the ages. The reverse location search warrant, which provides police officers with the ability to access location...
- 8From:GP Solo (Vol. 38, Issue 3)America's criminal justice system is a composite of contributions from all three branches of government--the judicial, the legislative, and the executive. This is the criminal justice template in every jurisdiction,...
- 9From:Criminal Justice (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article is adapted and abridged from a report entitled, "426 Years: An Examination of 25 Wrongful Convictions in Brooklyn, New York." The complete report is available at:...
- 10From:American Criminal Law Review (Vol. 58, Issue 1)Because true innocence is unknowable, scholars who study wrongful convictions and advocates who seek to vindicate the innocent must use proxies for innocence. Court processes or official recognition of innocence are the...
- 11From:Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (Vol. 63)INTRODUCTION On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, Jr., an African American man, was shot by Darren Wilson, a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri. (1) Ferguson is located within St. Louis County. (2) A grand jury was...
- 12From:Michigan Law Review (Vol. 119, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe writ of habeas corpus presents the last chance for innocent defendants to obtain relief from invalid convictions and sentences. The writ constitutes a limited exception to the finality of judgments. Given the role...
- 13From:Case Western Reserve Law Review (Vol. 71, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION "Discrimination on the basis of race, odious in all aspects, is especially pernicious in the administration of justice." (1) "Theories and arguments based upon racial, ethnic and most other stereotypes...
- 14From:Washington University Law Review (Vol. 98, Issue 1)INTRODUCTION The advent of DNA technology in the late 1980s led to a wave of exonerations in the United States, shedding light on major problems with the U.S. criminal justice system. (1) Many of these wrongful...
- 15From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 2)There are many reasons why the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin sparked unprecedented global protests and, in New York, the political will to finally repeal a law, 50-a, that hid police...
- 16From:ABA Journal (Vol. 106, Issue 4)Americans love a good comeback story, and until recently, R&B superstar R. Kelly was in the midst of one of the most unlikely yet successful second acts in recent memory. Accused of filming himself having sex with an...
- 17From:ABA Journal (Vol. 106, Issue 3)In 1991, a Somerset County, New Jersey, jury decided Isaac Wright Jr. was a drug kingpin and sent him to prison for life plus 70 years on related charges. Except Wright didn't do it--he was framed by the very prosecutor...
- 18From:Notre Dame Law Review (Vol. 95, Issue 5)INTRODUCTION The late great physicist Richard Feynman is thought once to have said "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." (1) Or maybe the idea expressed in that quip...
- 19From:Notre Dame Law Review (Vol. 95, Issue 5)INTRODUCTION Judge Diane Wood provides, in her characteristically efficient prose, a thoughtful overview of the history of the Great Writ in service of a thesis that her essay otherwise fails to support. Judge Wood...
- 20From:Albany Law Review (Vol. 83, Issue 3)
APPLYING THE STAMP SAFETY MODEL TO PREVENT FALSE CONVICTIONS BASED ON EYEWITNESS MISIDENTIFICATIONS.
In many criminal law systems, eyewitness identification of a suspect is sufficient to establish that they are the perpetrator of the crime in question, without any need for additional corroborating evidence. But this...