Brandon Garrett | February 19, 2020 | Sentencing
This article was originally published in Vol. 41, Issue 1 of the Cardozo Law Review. Risk assessments are a common feature of federal decisionmaking across a wide variety of areas of regulation. Perhaps the most widely used definition describes risk assessment as “the...
Anne Metz, John Monahan, Brandon Garrett and Luke Siebert | August 30, 2019 | Sentencing
ABSTRACTVirginia’s sentencing guidelines include alternative sanctions based on the use of a quantitative instrument called the Nonviolent Risk Assessment (NVRA) that identifies individuals convicted of drug and property crimes that are considered to be at lower...
Barry Friedman, Brandon Garrett, Rachel A. Harmon, Tracey L. Meares, Christopher Slobogin and Jennifer Morinigo | May 15, 2019 | Policing
Principles of the Law, PolicingThe following entry is the Black Letter and Comments of Tentative Draft No. 2, 11.02. Recording of Police Questioning.The full draft contains Reporters’ Notes. This draft will be presented to membership at the 2019 Annual Meeting for...
Barry Friedman, Brandon Garrett, Rachel A. Harmon, Tracey L. Meares, Christopher Slobogin and Jennifer Morinigo | May 10, 2019 | Policing
Principles of the Law, Policing The following entry contains the Black Letter, Comments, and Reporters’ Notes from Tentative Draft No. 2, Section 10.01. General Principles for Eyewitness Identification Procedures. This draft will be presented to membership at...
Brandon Garrett | February 28, 2019 | Policing
In the below video of a presentation hosted by the John Locke Foundation, Professor Brandon Garrett of Duke Law provides an overview of new research projects seeking to make criminal justice more evidence-based. He describes research projects designed to prevent...
