All Articles tagged Innocent

• Justice Commentaries
  May 28, 2019 EDT
  CONVICTIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
  John H. Blume

  This article attempts to illuminate the causes of wrongful conviction of persons with intellectual disability.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 28, 2019 EDT
  IS IT RATIONAL OR NOT?: WHEN INNOCENTS PLEAD GUILTY IN CHILD SEX ABUSE CASES
  Esa Bella Zakirova

  This article defines child sexual abuse and plea bargaining and examines its frequency in wrongful conviction cases for child sex abuse; discusses the rationality behind plea bargaining; and offers recommendations.

• Justice Commentaries
  October 16, 2014 EDT
  SEEKING JUSTICE, COMPROMISING TRUTH? CRIMINAL ADMISSIONS AND THE PRISONER‘S DILEMMA
  Robert J. NorrisAllison D. Redlich

  This article presents an experimental study of one particular tactic commonly used to secure admissions: the well-known Prisoner‘s Dilemma.

• Justice Commentaries
  June 11, 2013 EDT
  A SURVEY OF FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS‘ APPROACHES TO A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE: IS THERE A NEED FOR A STATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT IN NEW YORK IN THE AFTERMATH OF CPL § 440.10(G-1)?
  John M. Leventhal

  This article considers whether there is still a need for a freestanding state constitutional claim of actual innocence in light of a recent amendment to the New York State Criminal...

• Justice Commentaries
  May 05, 2012 EDT
  WRONGFUL CONVICTION: HOW A FAMILY SURVIVES
  Nancy Vollertsen

  This essay describes how a family member had been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit and how the lives of the convicted's family were upended.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2010 EDT
  FALSE CONFESSIONS
  Saul M. Kassin

  Professor Kassin's symposium remarks.