Vol. 82, Issue 3, 2019

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

This article explores the constitutionality and necessity of the use of money bail in cases involving nonviolent indigent defendants charged with low-level offenses.

This article attempts to cast a somewhat different light on the traditional domain of wrongful conviction scholarship and policy.

This study addresses gaps in research relating to sexual and violent crime prosecution by following up on Abrams’s conclusion that plea-bargaining does not result in sentence reductions for defendants.

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.

This paper defines the no crime phenomenon and further explains how an accident, suicide, or a fabricated crime can be wrongly determined to be a crime before adjudication.

This article analyzes the interrogations of Brendan Dassey and explains why the behavior of law enforcement in the face of Brendan’s communication deficits contributed to an involuntary, unreliable confession.

The Supreme Court should implement Justice Thomas’s “formality and solemnity” approach the next time the Court interprets the Confrontation Clause in the context of multi-analyst forensic disciplines.