The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in courts shutting down in-person appearances. Courts then turned to virtual proceedings as it continued. In

In an important first step to making substantial reform to the American criminal justice system, Illinois became the first state to abolish

Photo Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/courtroom-portraits-judges-ruling/2020/12/22/366c57a8-445e-11eb-975c-d17b8815a66d_story.html In December 2020, Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Bernhard ordered the removal of the portraiture that hung in the courtroom where a Black defendant was to be tried. Judge Bernhard had previously removed the portraits that hung in the courtroom he usually presides in, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all jury tr

Photo Source: https://www.bu.edu/history/files/2012/04/Law-Scales.jpg Prisoners who committed offenses in their youths are finally getting a second chance. D.C. recently passed the Second Look Amendment Act, an amendment to the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act of 2016, which allows for offenders who were young at the time of their offense to have an opportunity for a sentence review. As neuroscience has evolved, it has become apparent that the brain does not fully develo

As many people already know, the Fourth Amendment limits the government’s ability to intrude upon, confiscate or detain, the physical person or the property of private citizens. This is the bedrock provision of criminal procedure because it governs the manner in which law enforcement officers and other government agents, investigate and arrest private citizens for crimes. Whether any physical evidence obtained by the police is admissible in evidence at trial against a crimina