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One Too Many Cocktails: A Lethal Dose of Uncertainty in Executions
On November 20, 2019, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan issued a preliminary injunction halting four executions that the Justice...
Andrew Park
Apr 7, 20206 min read
Can Mandatory Minimums Ever Be Applied to Juvenile Offenders?
Since the United States Supreme Court handed down the Graham v. Florida decision in 2010 and Graham’s inevitable sequel, Miller v....
John Olorin
Apr 7, 20203 min read
SCOTUS 2020 and Potential Criminal Charges for Abortion Providers
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion became one of the most polarizing topics in America’s political...
Madison Howard
Apr 7, 20204 min read
Progressive Prosecution: the Oxymoron Reshaping the Criminal Justice System
Lately, public defenders are leaving their positions to work for the other side – the prosecution. To many aspiring public defenders, or...
Melissa Kucemba
Apr 7, 20203 min read
The United States and the International Criminal Court
The United States government has been very critical towards the International Criminal Court (ICC) ever since George W. Bush wanted to...
Annaka Groschinski
Apr 7, 20205 min read
Judicial Colloquialisms in Juvenile Courts
Numerous issues plague our criminal justice system, both in adult and juvenile courts. Prosecutorial, and judicial discretion can impact...
Maria Latimer
Jan 24, 20204 min read
New Legislation to Address the Sentencing of Juvenile Offenders, Leaves Many Unsatisfied
“David Bailey walks free today without having served his full sentence while we as a family serve the life sentence that he inflicted on...
Kieya Simpson
Jan 14, 20204 min read
Tension in the Law: Confrontation Clause and Whistleblower Protection
Recently, a whistleblower from the intelligence community came forward with a concern regarding a phone call between President Trump and...
Alexandra Perona
Dec 21, 20193 min read
Law and Television: Streaming Advocates Unit
United States consumers have a morbid fascination with crime. The media is consumed with docuseries, podcasts, television shows, books,...
Amanda Perez
Dec 16, 20194 min read
The Intersection of Election Security and Criminal Law: For the People Act of 2019
At the start of the first session of the 116th Congress, the House of Representatives introduced H.R.1, or better known as the For the...
Antonio Nunes
Dec 16, 20193 min read
Facial Recognition Failures
Facial Recognition is a technology capable of identifying (or verifying) a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video...
Sasha Brisbon
Nov 25, 20194 min read
If Not For Him, For Others: Supreme Court To Re-Examine Lee Boyd Malvo’s Sentence
The Supreme Court is considering whether Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 when he and his partner killed ten people in the DMV (District of...
Kyle Ehlers
Nov 14, 20194 min read
Bite Mark Analysis: Fake Science with Real Consequences
In 1992, Levon Brooks was sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a three-year-old girl. Four months after his conviction,...
Emily Glasser
Nov 14, 20193 min read
President Trump, Secretary Pompeo, and Criminal Contempt of Congress
On September 27, three House Committees issued subpoenas demanding that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo turn over documents related to...
Jack Thole
Nov 11, 20194 min read
As Maryland Continues to Decriminalize Weed, its Highest Court Holds its Smell No Longer Provides Of
Maryland’s Court of Appeals quoted Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are-A-Changing” in a ruling earlier this year, which held that the smell...
Marjorie Lluveres
Nov 11, 20193 min read
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