All Articles tagged DNA
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General September 23, 2024 EDT This Note argues a duty should be imposed on patients to warn relatives of genetic testing which may significantly affect that relative’s health and proposes elements for a new tort.
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Justice Commentaries September 27, 2020 EDT This article offers ways of reducing the rate of false convictions based on eyewitness misidentifications.
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Justice Commentaries May 28, 2019 EDT 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.
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Justice Commentaries July 17, 2018 EDT This article argues that there is a need to increase validity and reliability of forensic science in the criminal justice system through a collaborative approach.
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December 17, 2016 EDT This report offers a first-time comprehensive review of data collected by the Innocence Project on DNA exonerations.
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General June 10, 2016 EDT The first systematic empirical study of how the American criminal justice system discovers and responds to factual error based on actual innocence.
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Justice Commentaries August 03, 2015 EDT This article considers how gendered and raced biases play fundamental roles in creating the crime and suspect typifications that take hold and shape the practices of criminal justice system actors.
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Justice Commentaries August 03, 2015 EDT This article considers how gendered and raced biases play fundamental roles in creating the crime and suspect typifications that take hold and shape the practices of criminal justice system actors.
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June 11, 2013 EDT This article calls upon the instruments of dialectic and narrative to analyze an extremely troubling scientific and judicial phenomenon: the re-emergence of biological theories of race in the twenty-first century.
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Justice Commentaries May 05, 2012 EDT To investigate public perception of compensation, face-to-face interviews were conducted with fifteen community members. Findings suggest that all interviewees believed that individuals who have been wrongly convicted should receive compensation.
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Justice Commentaries May 05, 2012 EDT This article expands on the growing area of research into exonerees as victims of state harm by providing a case study of statements by public officials after exonerations.
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Justice Commentaries May 05, 2012 EDT This personal reflection recounts the story of Darryl Hunt, a wrongfully convicted murderer.
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March 04, 2011 EDT This essay argues that innocence does indeed mean factual innocence and that the best we can do is rely on the legal standards that define guilt and presume innocence.
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March 04, 2011 EDT This experiment examined the extent to which the knowledge that a case has passed pre-screening by an innocence project influences case reviewer judgment through top-down case processing.
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State Constitutional Commentary August 08, 2010 EDT Judge Lippman's symposium remarks.
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State Constitutional Commentary August 08, 2010 EDT Professor Kassin's symposium remarks.
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State Constitutional Commentary August 08, 2010 EDT This article focuses on the findings and recommendations of the Final Report of the New York State Bar Association‘s Task Force on Wrongful Convictions.
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August 08, 2010 EDT This article follows the efforts to overturn the conviction of William Richards for murdering his wife, Pamela Richards.
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General August 08, 2009 EDT This note discusses the current lack of a settled definition of race in American Law, and the potential role DNA technology can play in remedying the problems associated with it.
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August 08, 2009 EDT These remarks address the judicial acceptance of DNA random match estimates and how those estimates should be rejected as inadmissible.
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General January 01, 2006 EDT This article argues that there is no sound basis in law or policy that warrants depriving a non-marital child with the right to legitimization through posthumous paternity testing.