A youth sports team provides the unique opportunity to have a group of adolescents sit together—boys, no less—look each other in the eye, and discuss some of life’s most important issues, all from a place of trust. It’s actually quite…
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A youth sports team provides the unique opportunity to have a group of adolescents sit together—boys, no less—look each other in the eye, and discuss some of life’s most important issues, all from a place of trust. It’s actually quite…
We had some VIPs in the NCIP class yesterday! As part of our module on eyewitness misidentification, NCIP law students served as jurists in a mock trial that demonstrated how compelling an eyewitness can be to a jury—even if there…
Han Tak Lee, 79, was released Friday after spending 24 years behind bars in a Pennsylvania prison for a wrongful arson-murder conviction. A federal judge ruled this month that the conviction was based on faulty fire science and ultimately overturned…
FIFA, the international governing body for the sport of soccer, has been criticized for many things. The laundry list would include, but certainly not be limited to, the following: The selection of Qatar as the host site of the 2022…
It was a dreary morning on Treasure Island on Thursday, August 14th, 2014, as a group of curious public defenders, detectives, and prosecutors came together for arson investigator Paul Bieber’s showcase event: a live burn of two furnished mockups, one…
As you probably have read, University of Oklahoma freshman star football recruit Joe Mixon has been charged with misdemeanor assault and has been suspended from the university’s football team for the upcoming season for his role in an altercation at…
To help us cope with the minor setbacks and injustices in life, we have developed certain aphoristic tidbits. Displayed often on bumper stickers and t-shirts, they include sayings like “It is what it is,” or the French version “C’est la…
California Senate Bill 1058, which would help exonerate innocent men and women who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes, is headed to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk. Authored by Senator Mark Leno, the legislation would allow a judge to overturn a wrongful…
This past week has seen significant changes to the NCAA, both in terms of its governance model and in terms of its ability to restrict compensation to Division 1 men’s basketball players and Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) players for their…
The Marshall Project, a newly formed nonprofit criminal justice journalism group, wrote a story published in the Washington Post today revealing new evidence of misconduct by a Texas prosecutor that may have led to the wrongful execution of Cameron Todd…