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Wrongful Incarceration
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Legal Profession Blog
Improving Prosecutorial Accountability
The Justice Project has released its report on prosecutorial misconduct, along with the following press release:The Justice Project (TJP) released today a report detailing the causes of prosecutorial misconduct and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Gov. Richardson asking for public input on whether to sign death penalty abolition bill
Main March 15, 2009Gov. Richardson asking for public input on whether to sign death penalty abolition billAs noted in this post, late Friday the New Mexico state legislature finally passed…
Legal Profession Blog
Fifth Circuit Upholds $14M Judgment Against N.O. Prosecutors’ Office For Brady Violation In Capital Case: A Million For Every Year In Prison, And A Deathbed Confession By The ADA Just Before Execution
Posted by Alan ChildressThis eye-catching summary [and link to Friday's opinion on the U.S. Fifth Circuit website] by Robert McKnight, appellate practitioner and publisher of the Fifth Circuit Civil News…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Book suggestion for the clemency (and holiday shopping) season
Main December 6, 2008Book suggestion for the clemency (and holiday shopping) season While many defendants and their lawyers might be hoping for a clemency gift this holiday season, I can…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Notable call for an execution moratorium in Texas
Main November 1, 2008Notable call for an execution moratorium in Texas This local story out of Austin, headlined "Exonerated inmates ask Texas to halt executions," reports on an effort by…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Live LexBlog blogs for the week of 10/27-10/31
Unlike last week when a majority of the launches were non-traditional law blogs, we see more of the conventional variety this week. That's not a bad thing though as all…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Notable “death is different” response to wrongful convictions
Main October 30, 2008Notable "death is different" response to wrongful convictionsI just discovered via SSRN this notable article by Professor Rory Little titled "Addressing the Evidentiary Sources of Wrongful Convictions:…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Eleventh Circuit issues stay in Troy Davis case
Main October 25, 2008Eleventh Circuit issues stay in Troy Davis caseThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report on the latest development in one of the most-discussed capital cases in recent years:…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A notable (and notably late) Second Circuit conviction reversal
Main October 20, 2008A notable (and notably late) Second Circuit conviction reversalThe Second Circuit today in US v. Ogando, No. 05-0236 (2d Cir. Oct. 20, 2008) (available here), reverses for…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“The Confessional Penalty”
Main September 26, 2008"The Confessional Penalty"The title of this post is the title of this paper I just noticed on SSRN. The paper, by two professors at Tel Aviv University,…