New law review article: Dirty Silver Platters
New Law Review Article: Wayne A. Logan, Dirty Silver Platters, 99 Iowa L. Rev. __ (2013). Abstract from SSRN: This article addresses a longstanding concern in American criminal justice: the risk that...
View ArticleChin on Race and the Disappointing Right to Counsel
Gabriel J. Chin (University of California, Davis - School of Law) has posted Race and the Disappointing Right to Counsel (122 Yale Law Journal, 2013, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Critics...
View ArticleCommemorating Equal Pay Day
Today, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (@CivilRights) participated in an Equal Pay Twitter Chat. Hosted by the National Women’s Law Center, the event brought together officials from...
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Louis Taylor freed after 42 years in prison
Recently, a man who spent 42 years in prison was finally released from custody. The man was convicted at the age of 16 of starting a fire that killed over 20 people. New evidence, however, convinced...
View ArticleThomas & Leo on Torture to Miranda and Beyond
George C. Thomas III (pictured) and Richard A. Leo (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - School of Law-Newark and University of San Francisco - School of Law) have posted Confessions of Guilt:...
View ArticleIneffective Assistance of Counsel in Utah
In Utah, a person may petition the Appeals Court after he has been convicted of a felony for ineffective assistance of counsel—another way of saying that an attorney erred in some fashion. In order to...
View ArticleMortgage Broker to Spend a Year Behind Bars for Loan Fraud
Fred Stevens, 56, Easton, Connecticut, was sentenced by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release,...
View ArticleHomeowner Admits Lying to Obtain Mortgage
John J. Doran, 63, Niantic, formerly of Deep River, Connecticut, pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to one count of making false statements to influence...
View ArticleSchopp on Retribution, Revenge, and Capital Punishment
Robert F. Schopp (University of Nebraska at Lincoln - College of Law) has posted Retribution and Revenge in the Context of Capital Punishment on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Several Supreme Court...
View ArticleThe Sandwich Theory
Quoth Papa Greenfield: Shortly after an instructor first arrives at Cardozo’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, after settling in with a bagel and coffee, Ellen Yaroshefsky would give a speech about...
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Del Norte County DA Facing Disbarment
Jon Alexander, the elected District Attorney of Del Norte County, recently faced the California State Bar Court for allegations of professional misconduct. Seven charges of misconduct were issued...
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Tuesday Night Open Thread
Jimmy Kimmel's latest threat to Germany to release Justin Bieber's monkey is pretty funny. So is Kid Rock who comes on at the end (and of course Guillermo in the middle blowing up a German chocolate...
View ArticleJustice and Revenge, Rosenbaum Trolling
I heard Thane Rosenbaum on NPR yesterday, and was instantly struck by how juvenile this law professor’s understanding of justice and human nature is. (Greenfield wrote last week about Rosenbaum’s...
View ArticlePapachristos, Wallace & Fagan on Desistance, Legitimacy, and Offender...
Andrew V. Papachristos , Danielle M. Wallace and Jeffrey Fagan (pictured) (Yale University - Department of Sociology, Arizona State University (ASU) and Columbia Law School) have posted Desistance and...
View ArticleThe Sixth Circuit Limits FCA Liability Arising Under Express and Implied...
In United States ex rel Hobbs v. Medquest Associates, Inc., 2013 WL 1285590 (6th Cir. April 1, 2013), the Sixth Circuit reversed an $11 million False Claims Act judgment and rejected the Government's...
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Cybercrime Review welcomes Andrew Proia as guest writer
I am excited to welcome Andrew Proia as a guest writer for Cybercrime Review. Andrew will post as a guest writer starting this week. He plans to formally join Cybercrime Review as a permanent author...
View ArticleWI: Trial court erred in not considering automobile exception alternative for...
While the trial court expressly didn’t believe the officer that he could smell marijuana and suppressed, there was other evidence of marijuana in the passenger compartment of the car that supported a...
View ArticleD.Md.: Where no "binding circuit precedent" Davis good faith can't save GPS...
Where there was no binding circuit precedent, pre-Jones placement of a GPS could not be protected by Davis. There were, however, court orders for cell phone tracking. The court finds that these orders...
View ArticleE.D.N.Y.: Defendant gets a Franks hearing and doesn't prevail
Defendant got a Franks hearing, and he did not prevail. “Consequently, the Court finds no evidence that the transcript or the affidavit contained statements that were deliberately false or made with...
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