Organizational Conformity and Punishment: Federal Court Communities and Judge-Initiated Guidelines Departures
Organizational Conformity and Punishment: Federal Court Communities and Judge-Initiated Guidelines Departures The Sentencing Guidelines represent a uniform set of formal rules that are implemented across a broad range of diverse…
From Grace to Grids: Rethinking Due Process Protection for Parole
From Grace to Grids: Rethinking Due Process Protection for Parole Current due process law gives little protection to prisoners at the point of parole, even though the parole decision, like…
Profit-Driven Prosecution and the Competitive Bidding Process
Profit-Driven Prosecution and the Competitive Bidding Process Prosecutors are the most powerful organs of the criminal justice system, enjoying discretion in decision-making far beyond that of law enforcement officials, defense…
Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago: Looking Back a Decade Later
Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago: Looking Back a Decade Later Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) is a federally funded initiative that brings together federal, state, and local law enforcement to reduce…
Purpose, Policing, and the Fourth Amendment
Purpose, Policing, and the Fourth Amendment Fourth Amendment cases are replete with references to “purpose.” Typically, these references pertain to the motivations of individual officers and occasionally to those of…
Structuring Pre-Plea Criminal Discovery
Structuring Pre-Plea Criminal Discovery Ninety-seven percent of federal defendants plead guilty, and they rely on prosecutors for much of the information about the government’s case on which the decision to…
Criminalizing Terrorism in Canada: Investigating the Sentencing Outcomes of Terrorist Offenders From 1963 to 2010
Criminalizing Terrorism in Canada: Investigating the Sentencing Outcomes of Terrorist Offenders From 1963 to 2010 Despite having endured significant terrorist incidents over the past 50 years, terrorism-specific offenses were not…
Police Body Cameras in Large Police Departments
Police Body Cameras in Large Police Departments Body Worn Cameras are spreading worldwide, under the assumption that police performance, conduct, accountability, and legitimacy, in the eyes of the public, are…
The Long Goodbye: After the Innocence Movement, Does the Attorney-Client Relationship Ever End?
The Long Goodbye: After the Innocence Movement, Does the Attorney-Client Relationship Ever End? Inspired by the Innocence Movement, the American Bar Association has placed an unprecedented new obligation on defense…
Evidence Laundering in a Post-Herring World
Evidence Laundering in a Post-Herring World The Supreme Court’s decision in Herring v. United States authorizes police to defeat the Fourth Amendment’s protections through a process we call evidence laundering.…
A Victim of Abuse Should Still Have a Castle: The Applicability of the Castle Doctrine to Instances of Domestic Violence
A Victim of Abuse Should Still Have a Castle: The Applicability of the Castle Doctrine to Instances of Domestic Violence In light of a nation-wide discussion about expanding self-defense laws,…
Secular Dissent: Protecting Non-Believers from Coercive Religious Parole Programs
Secular Dissent: Protecting Non-Believers from Coercive Religious Parole Programs It is common practice for states to contract with third party organizations to run their parole rehabilitation programs. A majority of…