Trevino v. Thaler: Falling Short of Meaningful Federal Habeas Corpus Reform
Trevino v. Thaler: Falling Short of Meaningful Federal Habeas Corpus Reform Prisoners face many barriers when petitioning for federal habeas corpus relief, especially when asserting ineffective assistance of trial counsel…
The Unindicted Co-Ejaculator and Necrophilia: Addressing Prosecutors' Logic-Defying Responses to Exculpatory DNA Results
The Unindicted Co-Ejaculator and Necrophilia: Addressing Prosecutors' Logic-Defying Responses to Exculpatory DNA Results This article addresses a prosecutor’s development of new and bizarre theories, particularly in cases involving confession evidence,…
Remembering Disputed Sexual Encounters: A New Frontier for Witness Memory Research
Remembering Disputed Sexual Encounters: A New Frontier for Witness Memory Research This paper reviews sources of distortion in memory for sexual encounters, particularly those between intoxicated participants. We review factors…
An Ideological Odyssey: Evolution of a Reformer
An Ideological Odyssey: Evolution of a Reformer Read the syndicated article here
Symposium on the Center on Wrongful Convictions: Foreward
Symposium on the Center on Wrongful Convictions: Foreward Read the syndicated article here
Investigating the Programmatic Attack: A National Survey of Veterans Treatment Courts
Investigating the Programmatic Attack: A National Survey of Veterans Treatment Courts Veterans treatment courts (VTCs), a recent emergence from the specialized court movement, target the population of veterans in contact…
An Empirical Research Agenda for the Forensic Sciences
An Empirical Research Agenda for the Forensic Sciences After the National Academy of Sciences issued a stunning report in 2009 on the unscientific state of many forensic science subfields, forensic…
Prosecutors and Victims: Why Wrongful Convictions Matter
Prosecutors and Victims: Why Wrongful Convictions Matter Often, discussions of wrongful convictions focus almost entirely on the wrongfully convicted and ignore two important constituencies: prosecutors and crime victims. Both constituencies…
Prohibition, Stare Decisis, and the Lagging Ability of Science to Influence Criminal Procedure
Prohibition, Stare Decisis, and the Lagging Ability of Science to Influence Criminal Procedure Science has revealed that, contrary to longstanding intuitions, eyewitnesses are sometimes mistaken and false confessions do occur.…
Who Could it be Now? Challenging the Reliability of First Time In-Court Identifications After State v. Henderson and State v. Lawson
Who Could it be Now? Challenging the Reliability of First Time In-Court Identifications After State v. Henderson and State v. Lawson Despite the recent advances in assessing the reliability of…
The Chronic Failure to Discipline Prosecutors for Misconduct: Proposals for Reform
The Chronic Failure to Discipline Prosecutors for Misconduct: Proposals for Reform While most prosecutors adhere to the maxim that their primary task is to obtain just results, there are some…
The Exercise of Power in Prison Organizations and Implications for Legitimacy
The Exercise of Power in Prison Organizations and Implications for Legitimacy Extrapolating from Bottoms and Tankebe’s framework for a social scientific understanding of “legitimacy,” we argue that differences in how…