Now Available on Video! Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren: A Technology Townhall Discussion Monday, June 11, 2012 Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-California), a SCU alumna, was back on campus at SCU on June 11, 2012, where she addressed a wide range of topics…
Probably best known for its effect on women’s sports at the collegiate level, Title IX (P.L. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119) has a more far reaching goal: to eliminate sex discrimination in federally assisted education programs at all levels. In 2002,…
The U.S. Supreme Court once again weighed whether lab technicians must testify as to the results of DNA tests they perform. However, the answer was anything but clear. In the past few years, the Supreme Court twice ruled that DNA…
The Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University has created a new, free, online resource about the death penalty in those countries in which it is still imposed. The Death Penalty Worldwide is a database cataloging the offenses…
The Midwest Innocence Project can prove Ricky Kidd is innocent of the murder that put him behind bars for life. Now if only the court will let them. Ricky Kidd has served 16 years of a life sentence for a…
Investigative reporters at USA Today have discovered an unusual problem with the North Carolina criminal justice system. Based on court records and interviews with government officials, the investigation revealed more than 60 men who went to prison for violating federal…
Five different independent groups have called on Michigan to reform its system for paying lawyers to represent poor defendants. Each time the state has done nothing. Finally, that may be changing due to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties…
A new empirical study conducted by Lucian Dervan, Assistant Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University, and Vanessa Edkins, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Florida Institute of Technology, reveals that students are likely to take plea bargains and confess…
Bypassing the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2011; H.R.1842, S. 952), which has been stalled in Congress, Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano today announced a new policy for undocumented immigrants 30 years old or younger…
In an article written for the San Jose Mercury News, retired judge LaDoris Cordell writes about her experience with wrongful conviction. Bobby Herrera was 17 years old when he appeared in Cordell’s courtroom charged with murder. Faced with a possible…