Andrew Sheeler | February 4, 2020 | Children and the Law, Sentencing
This article was originally published by The Sacramento Bee on Jan. 28, 2020. The following is an excerpt. A California lawmaker argues that 18- and 19-year-olds aren’t mature enough to do prison time if they break the law, and so she has submitted a bill that would...
The Third Circuit Task Force on Eyewitness Identifications | January 21, 2020 | Policing
The following is from The Introduction, Part A of the Identification Report. This Report was originally published by the Temple Law Review (citations omitted). I. INTRODUCTIONA. Preface: The Creation, Composition, and Purview of the Task Force The Third Circuit Task...
Walter Olson | August 13, 2019 | Sexual Assault
Many colleges have adopted a principle known as “affirmative consent,” which makes it easier to infer misconduct (and thus impose expulsion or other discipline) when a record is lacking in verbal or physical evidence one way or the other as to whether a student’s...
Robert Alt | August 8, 2019 | Sentencing
This article was originally published by The Federalist Society. The following is an excerpt. Access the full article here. State legislatures across the country made significant strides in reforming their criminal justice regimes throughout 2018. States revised their...
Lauren Klosinski | June 19, 2019 | Sentencing
In a recent article for Law360 Access to Justice, Alexandra Natapoff of UC Irvine School of Law examines the misdemeanor process in the U.S. criminal justice system. Professor Natapoff argues that the misdemeanor system is “under-regulated and rarely scrutinized. And...
