A CASE FOR CONCEPTUALIZING SCIENCE LITERACY FOR LAWYERS
To read the entire article, click here for the PDF. Abstract Forensic science is routinely used in the service of the United States’...
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Danielle M. Woo
- 2 hours ago
- 8 min
Domestic Violence and Firearm Relinquishment: Closing the Fatal Chasm Between Federal Law and State
To read the article in full, click here for the PDF. Introduction Verbal and emotional abuse became a daily occurrence. When Katie would...
Emily Moran
- 1 day ago
- 3 min
Missing and murdered Indigenous women: A silent epidemic
TW: Violence and Trauma Connected to Racism and Racial Conflict In light of the recent coverage of the missing person’s case of Gabby...
Sarah Pape
- Dec 24, 2022
- 4 min
'Some things cannot be fixed': Rikers Island and pretrial detention
Kalief Browder was only 16 years old when he was arrested and incarcerated. He was held in solitary confinement for almost two years out...
Chelsey Rogers
- Nov 18, 2022
- 2 min
Practitioner Profile: Will Mount
Will Mount is the founding partner at the Mount Law Firm, PLLC, where he primarily represents clients in appointed juvenile delinquency...
Bennett Nuss
- Nov 13, 2022
- 3 min
Legal tracking: Blanket pardons - A revolutionary policy idea or merely missing the point?
On Oct. 6, 2022, President Biden issued the following proclamation on the White House website: “Acting Pursuant to the grant of authority...
Kayla Ollendorff
- Nov 10, 2022
- 3 min
The Supreme Court's opportunity to formally expand Brady
TW: sexual violence, child abuse On Aug. 26, 2022, Troy Mansfield’s attorneys filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the...
Brianna Long
- Nov 9, 2022
- 3 min
Creating a “clean slate” for formerly convicted persons
On April 27 and 28, 2021, Sen. Robert (Bob) Casey (D-PA), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), Rep. Lisa Rochester (D-DE) and Rep. Guy Reschenthaler...
Felicia Sych
- Nov 9, 2022
- 3 min
Podcasts: The newest tool in a detective’s arsenal?
When investigative journalist Sarah Koenig began her podcast in 2014, she wanted to tell the story of Adnan Syed, a man sentenced to life...
Raimund Stieger
- Aug 15, 2022
- 27 min
A Prosecutor’s Right to Immunity and a Defendant’s Right to Another Trial
To read this article as a PDF, click here. EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published under the title "A Prosecutor's Right to...
Ivan Parfenoff
- Aug 15, 2022
- 30 min
“As Law and Justice Require”: A Traditional Habeas Approach to Modern Prisoner Rights
Abstract: This article argues that, contrary to general understanding, the writ of habeas corpus is available to challenge not only...
Jackie Solomon
- Aug 15, 2022
- 2 min
Letter from the Editor, Volume XII, Issue III
Dear Readers, Thank you for your interest in The Criminal Law Practitioner. I am pleased to address you for the first time as the brief’s...
Kirsten Rowe
- Jul 24, 2022
- 3 min
Influence of childhood trauma on perpetrators of mass shootings
In yet another mass shooting, a teenage gunman took the lives of 13 individuals at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York on May 14,...
Bennett Nuss
- Jun 6, 2022
- 3 min
Legal tracking: Malicious prosecution at issue in Thompson v. Clarke
Malicious prosecution is a major problem in the United States. The Washington Post found government misconduct in some manner caused over...
Ben Crawford
- Jun 3, 2022
- 3 min
Latent fingerprint identification: A lack of scientific process
Fingerprint analysis was first proposed for criminal identification in the 19th century and has since become an evidentiary staple of...
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