In a number of my posts, I will be addressing Trump’s extraordinary Executive Order 14164, titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety,” signed on Jan. 20, 2025 [“the EO”], as well as the follow-up memo from Attorney…

I want to thank Steve Henderson for inviting me to blog once more on CrimProfBlog. According to my CV, which I have no reason to doubt, I last was a contributing editor here in 2009.For my first blog post in…

The issue is viewpoint discrimination in state bar journals, but that’s facts without any of the flavor.  Here’s the story –This past August—meaning in August of 2024—my research dean sent out an invitation to write “a short piece … for…

Remember when you were just starting out as a new criminal law / procedure professor and you had no idea what you were doing and would have relished the chance to review what other, more experienced professors were doing in…

Well, the decision is in, and Glossip v. Oklahoma, No. 22-7466, doesn’t hold any punches.  The Court’s opinion (basically 5-3 in critical part, as Gorsuch sat this one out) reads like a ‘how to’ manual in unethical investigation and…

I want to take this opportunity to invite you to consider submissions to the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (OSJCL), in particular here to our Commentary section.  As many of you know, we publish high-quality symposia, book reviews, “Term…

From the Crimprof Multipedia, for teaching purposes…CategoryHomicideTagsextreme emotional disturbance, homicide, manslaughter, mitigation, provocation, voluntary manslaughterPostIn this classically-Seinfeldian introduction to Episode 18, Season 8 (“The Nap“) of Seinfeld, George Costanza reflects on the term “manslaughter.”Video Link…