Martin Tankleff, 42, who was wrongfully convicted for the murders of his parents and released in 2007, graduated from law school on May 25. Tankleff served 17 years of a 50 years to life sentence before an appeals court overturned…
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Martin Tankleff, 42, who was wrongfully convicted for the murders of his parents and released in 2007, graduated from law school on May 25. Tankleff served 17 years of a 50 years to life sentence before an appeals court overturned…
NCIP is proud to announce that SB 980, a bill that improves the process for obtaining post conviction DNA testing, passed the California State Senate today. The bill, authored by Senator Ted Lieu and sponsored by NCIP and other organizations,…
In writing a weekly sports ethics blog, it would be easy to cherry-pick the week’s most controversial viral sports video or tune in to the weekly MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) cage-fighting highlights. This week these two are one and the…
When I played Little League Baseball many years ago, it seems as if we spent as much time and energy devising trick plays designed to deceive our opponents as we did working on fundamentals. Our efforts typically involved variations of…
The U.S. Department of Justice recently notified their federal law enforcement officials that effective July 11, they will be required to video record interrogations of suspects in custody, with few exceptions. After more than a century of prohibiting the recording…
Who better to distill the virtue and culture of sport than three phenomenally successful sportspersons, all under the banner of the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA)? Last week, I attended PCA’s annual “Coffee With Coaches.” At last year’s event I was…
ESPN, citing league sources, reported recently that the National Football League soon will change its policies pertaining to the use of marijuana. If that report is correct, and the NFL is in fact on the verge of raising the level…
Tyrone Hicks, 57, was cleared of all charges on Thursday after spending eight years in a New York prison for an attempted rape in 1998 that he did not commit. Hicks’ wrongful conviction was a consequence of eyewitness misidentification—no physical or…
Justice for the wrongfully incarcerated just got one step closer to reality for two NCIP exonerees, with the help of a new law passed last year to improve the process for compensating innocent people who wrongly spent years behind bars.…
In today’s posting, I take on a task I occasionally assign to my students: I argue against myself. Obviously, I will win this argument (and, I suppose, will also lose), but more importantly, will more accurately frame not only this…