Topic
Wrongful Incarceration
467 published works
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Under Pressure: The Hazards of Maintaining Innocence after Conviction”
Main September 21, 2014"Under Pressure: The Hazards of Maintaining Innocence after Conviction"The title of this post is the title of this intriguing new piece authored by Daniel Medwed and now…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Reducing Guilty Pleas Through Exoneree Compensations”
Main September 5, 2014"Reducing Guilty Pleas Through Exoneree Compensations"The title of this post is the title of this intriguing new article available via SSRN authored by Murat Mungan and Jonathan…
Death Penalty
The Wrong Carlos: Great Read – and Shows How Important Terry Lenamon’s Work Is For Justice
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
Have you heard about how Texas executed the wrong man (no, not Cameron Todd Willingham)? Here's a good read for all those interested in the American system of death penalty…
Law & Economics Prof Blog
Do preventive law enforcement methods increase type-I errors?
I've recently been working on an article on preventive law enforcement methods. By preventive law enforcement methods, I mean any kind of pre-crime intervention that has the goal of preventing…
Ohio Appellate Insights
What Happened on Remand: Doss v. State. Compensation for Actual Innocence Hangs in the Balance.
Update: On July 26, 2016, Doss was found not to be a wrongfully-imprisoned person. Read more about that here. Case Background. In 2006, Iran Doss was convicted of kidnapping and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Another round of heated debate over guilt of executed Cameron Todd Willingham
Main August 5, 2014Another round of heated debate over guilt of executed Cameron Todd WillinghamCNN has this lengthy new article reviewing some new developments in the long-running debate over the…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Yet Another Update on the Prade case: High Court Refuses to Hear Case Again
Update: Judge Christine Croce, who is now hearing this case, ruled July 25, 2014, that Prade should go back to jail while she decides whether he should get a new…
Failed Evidence
Recording Interrogations: Not a Silver Bullet, But a Definite Improvement
Today’s New York Time’s has an op-ed article by Professor Jennifer Mnookin of UCLA, “Can a Jury Believe What It Sees? Videotaped Confessions Can Be Misleading” Prof. Mnookin was a…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“The Consequences of Error in Criminal Justice”
Main July 10, 2014"The Consequences of Error in Criminal Justice"The title of this post is the title of this new article by Daniel Epps now available via SSRN. Here is…
Texas Bar Blog
Morton urges cooperation to preserve new Texas discovery law
By Lowell Brown
Michael Morton-subject of magazine profiles, focus of an acclaimed documentary, author of an upcoming memoir-is by many measures a celebrity. It's a label he doesn't relish, especially in light of…