Michael Morton, who spent 25 years behind bars in Texas for the wrongful murder conviction of his wife, will release his memoir, “Getting Life: An Innocence Man’s 25-Year Journey From Prison to Peace” on Tuesday. In 1986, Morton’s wife Christine…
Trending in the world of #WorldCup2014 more than almost any other topic is the moral condemnation of players feigning injury in order to deceive the referee thus garnering a free kick, aka, “flopping.” Americans seem disgusted by it. Even our…
The recent death of Tony Gwynn, by all accounts one of the classiest men in baseball and also a long-time user of smokeless tobacco, put the issue of smokeless tobacco use in the major leagues squarely on the radar of…
Nearly 200 people attended the Northern California Innocence Project’s (NCIP) Eyewitness Identification Best Practices Symposium at the University of San Francisco (USF) on May 21, 2014. The symposium, sponsored by a Flom Incubator Grant from the Skadden Fellowship Foundation, brought…
Perhaps like many of you, I was watching yesterday’s Uruguay vs. Italy World Cup match when, with just a few minutes to go in a 0-0 game that Uruguay needed to win in order to advance, I was shocked to…
There’s a consensus amongst soccer fanatics that U.S. goalie Tim Howard’s save near the end of the first half against Portugal is the best—by far—of the World Cup. But there’s something much more interesting and relevant that preceded this save…
In recent years, numerous prosecutors across the nation have created conviction integrity units to address claims of wrongful conviction. Over the last several years, these units have reviewed various cases and dismissed dozens of convictions to date. For example, Brooklyn’s…
Santa Clara Law has a new Privacy Law Certificate! If you are a rising 3L and interested in the certificate, you are eligible to obtain the certificate, but schedule an appointment with Prof. Goldman ASAP to see if you can complete…
This past weekend’s U.S. Open provided one of those exceptionally rare and exciting moments in all of sport: a hole in one. With such a small hole, this lunar-eclipse-like event requires quite a bit of skill, and quite a bit…
The Center for Prosecutor Integrity (CPI) released a proposed bill today that would require federal prosecutors to employ an open-file policy which would provide defense attorneys full access to all evidence pertinent to the case. Today under the Brady requirement,…
