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,...
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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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