Interrogation and confession-taking is of interest to a wide audience. To political scientists
and sociologists, police interrogation offers a paradigm case of the constitutional exercise …

The discovery of hundreds of wrongful convictions in the last fifteen years has shaken up the
criminal justice world. Since the advent of postconviction DNA testing around 1990, more …

Postconviction DNA testing changed the landscape of criminal justice in the United States.
Actors in the criminal system long doubted whether courts ever wrongly convicted people; …

False confessions present a puzzle: How could innocent people convincingly confess to
crimes they knew nothing about? For decades, commentators doubted that a crime suspect …

In this Article, the authors analyze a century of research on the causes and consequences of
wrongful convictions in the American criminal justice system while explaining the many …

This Article challenges the new orthodoxy offorensic science. In so doing, it reframes the
debate about the role offorensic evidence in the criminal justice system in three respects …

In 2008, Mark Jensen stood trial for the murder of his wife Julie in a Kenosha County Circuit
Court in Wisconsin.'At one point in the trial, the presiding judge commented:" People who …

" It's a total injustice.... These three men are being made to plead guilty to something they
didn't do...." John Mark Byers, father of one of the alleged West Memphis Three victims' On …

In recent decades, legal scholars have devoted enormous attention to two problems in the
American criminal justice system: the appalling underfunding of indigent defense'and …

How dangerous must a person be to justify the state in locking her up for the greater good?
The bail reform movement, which aspires to limit pretrial detention to the truly dangerous …