Point/Counterpoint
by N. Randy Smith and David R. Herndon
Spring 2016 | Volume 100 Number 1
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by Richard Seltzer, Russell F. Canan, Molly Cannon and Heidi L. Hansberry
Spring 2016 | Volume 100 Number 1Just after midnight on a warm summer night, a Caucasian woman was walking alone on the streets of Washington, D.C. All of a sudden, three young men she had never […]
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by Brandon Garrett and Sandra Guerra Thompson
Summer 2021 | Volume 105 Number 2Maranda ODonnell was driving to her mother’s house to pick up her four-year-old daughter when she was stopped by police and arrested for driving with a suspended license. As was […]
Point/Counterpoint
by Robert D. Keeling and Ray Mangum
Summer 2021 | Volume 105 Number 2With the proliferation of social media platforms and other new technologies has come a renewed legal focus on privacy. Most of that focus has centered on data collection, storage, sharing, […]
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In my 14 years as a federal district judge, I estimate that I have sentenced well over 2,000 individuals.1 Sentencing is the most multifaceted, emotional, and challenging task a judge […]
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by SpearIt
Summer 2020 | Volume 104 Number 2With the Fourth Amendment gone, eyes are on the First // That’s why I’m spittin cyanide each and every verse These lyrics from American rap artist Paris’ 2003 album, Sonic […]
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Eyewitness evidence, in which a witness visually identifies the culprit, is a staple of criminal investigations. But its fallibility is notorious. As the National Academy of Sciences explained in an […]
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Increasing research shows that eyewitness confidence at the time of the initial identification can be a strong predictor of accuracy under appropriate lineup identification conditions.1 In such conditions, police show […]
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In 2016, the Third Circuit sat en banc to hear the case of Commonwealth v. Dennis.1 Little did the court realize the sustained impact this single appeal would have on […]
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by Thomas D. Albright and Jed S. Rakoff
Spring 2020 | Volume 104 Number 1Six years ago, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) convened a panel of experts to consider the problem of eyewitness identification. Eyewitnesses have long played a significant role in […]
