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Dolores Sinistaj

Feb 14, 20175 min read

California Passes Mandatory Sentencing for Rape

While 2016 was a year filled with many newsworthy stories in the criminal law world, the story of Stanford student, Brock Turner,...

Apoorva Deshmukh

Dec 13, 20164 min read

DC Community Court Expansion: A Step in the Right Direction

As of September 2016, 1,845 individuals are under the supervision of the DC Department of Corrections (DOC). The DOC has calculated a...

Chelsea Jacobi

Nov 26, 20164 min read

Choosing Capital Punishment: 2016 Referendums and the Death Penalty

As of July 1, 2016, there are 2,905 Americans on death row. Almost one-third of those inmates live in one of these three states:...

Kaitlin Bigger

Nov 8, 20162 min read

"Indefensible": Recent Supreme Court Case Highlights Continued Racial Bias in Death Penalty

Duane Buck was sentenced to death by a jury in 1997 after his own counsel called an expert witness who testified that Mr. Buck would be a...

Maria Thompson

Nov 8, 20164 min read

Privacy in the Time of Birchfield

In the Supreme Court’s June 2016 decision in Birchfield v. North Dakota, the Court held that police officers do not need a warrant to...

crimlawpracblog

Aug 28, 20165 min read

Order in the Court

While observing District Court this summer, I witnessed an intimidating interaction between a Judge and a Public Defender. It was a bench...

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