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Felicia Sych

Nov 9, 20223 min read

Podcasts: The newest tool in a detective’s arsenal?

When investigative journalist Sarah Koenig began her podcast in 2014, she wanted to tell the story of Adnan Syed, a man sentenced to life...

A Prosecutor’s Right to Immunity and a Defendant’s Right to Another Trial

Raimund Stieger

Aug 15, 202227 min read

A Prosecutor’s Right to Immunity and a Defendant’s Right to Another Trial

To read this article as a PDF, click here. EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published under the title "A Prosecutor's Right to...

“As Law and Justice Require”: A Traditional Habeas Approach to Modern Prisoner Rights

Ivan Parfenoff

Aug 15, 202230 min read

“As Law and Justice Require”: A Traditional Habeas Approach to Modern Prisoner Rights

Abstract: This article argues that, contrary to general understanding, the writ of habeas corpus is available to challenge not only...

Letter from the Editor, Volume XII, Issue III

Jackie Solomon

Aug 15, 20222 min read

Letter from the Editor, Volume XII, Issue III

Dear Readers, Thank you for your interest in The Criminal Law Practitioner. I am pleased to address you for the first time as the brief’s...

Kirsten Rowe

Jul 24, 20223 min read

Influence of childhood trauma on perpetrators of mass shootings

In yet another mass shooting, a teenage gunman took the lives of 13 individuals at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York on May 14,...

Bennett Nuss

Jun 6, 20223 min read

Legal tracking: Malicious prosecution at issue in Thompson v. Clarke

Malicious prosecution is a major problem in the United States. The Washington Post found government misconduct in some manner caused over...

Ben Crawford

Jun 3, 20223 min read

Latent fingerprint identification: A lack of scientific process

Fingerprint analysis was first proposed for criminal identification in the 19th century and has since become an evidentiary staple of...

Lucy Delves

Jun 3, 20223 min read

Pregnant in prison? What’s next for you? Abortion access for the incarcerated

There are over 200,000 women currently incarcerated in the United States. Thousands of these women are pregnant. Many persons become...

Brianna Long

Jun 1, 20224 min read

A pattern of bias in PATTERN

The First Step Act, implemented on Dec. 21, 2018, required the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “develop a risk needs assessment system to...

Arielle Aboulafia

Jun 1, 20224 min read

Greenlighting non-police alternatives to traffic enforcement and road safety

Though traditional notions of public safety have long regarded law enforcement as the only effective means of keeping communities safe,...

Jackie Solomon

May 27, 20223 min read

Visitation: Can it do more for juvenile offenders?

According to Haley Walker’s article, School-to-Prison Pipeline, juvenile offenders are “ten times more likely” than the rest of the...

Nikko Respeto

May 27, 20223 min read

Interstate prohibition of sports gambling: The Wire Act must go

Sports gambling is a market that has not always been legal, but that has not stopped sports bettors from placing bets on sporting events...

Adam K. Roberts

May 26, 20224 min read

The guardians of our legal system unchecked

Crime is often a local issue, one handled by the community in which it occurs. Laws are mostly enforced by local or state police, and...

Breann Bell

May 25, 20223 min read

How HB 459 will update Maryland’s outdated juvenile legal system

Maryland has been making changes to its juvenile legislation, and the state most recently passed the Juvenile Restoration Act (JRA),...

Caitlyn Greene

May 25, 20225 min read

The Bureau of Prison’s systematically unfair treatment of D.C. Code offenders

On Feb. 3, 2022, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia filed Blades v. Garland in the U.S. District Court for the...

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