Articles

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"Waiving" Goodbye to Rights: Plea Bargaining and the Defense Dilemma of Competent Representation, Hastings Contitutional Law Quarterly (2011)

The proposed amendments to the ABA Criminal Justice Standards for Prosecutors and Defense Lawyers (“Proposed...

 

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Will History be Servitude?: The NAS Report on Forensic Science and the Rule of the Judiciary, Utah Law Review (2010)

For several decades, the prosecution and its witnesses have maintained that despite little research and...

 

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Neuroscience, Law & Government: Foreword to the Symposium, Akron Law Review (2009)

The legal and legislative systems have begun to rely on neuroscience in various types of...

 

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Visions of Deception: Neuroimaging and the Search for Evidential Truth, Akron Law Review (2009)

The use of science in the search for truth poses consistent evidentiary problems of definition,...

 

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Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence in the U.S. Courts, Journal of Behavioral Sciences & the Law (2008)

This article explores the admissibility of neuroimaging evidence in U.S. courts, recognizing various trends in...

 

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Rape, Affirmative Consent to Sex, and Sexual Autonomy: Introduction to the Symposium, Akron Law Review (2008)

We may have moved in the West toward a standard in which “no means no”...

 

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“Misconvictions,” Science and The Ministers of Justice, Nebraska Law Review (2007)

DNA evidence has exonerated over two hundred wrongfully convicted defendants in the last several years,...

 

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Symposium Foreward: Daubert, Innocence, and the Future of Forensic Science, Tulsa Law Review (2007)

The years since Daubert have not been kind to those seeking to challenge prosecutorial expert...

 

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Forensic Science: Grand Goals, Tragic Flaws, and Judicial Gatekeeping, Judges' Journal (2005)

In the last decade, a number of scientists have published articles and testified in court,...

 

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“While Dangers Gather”: The Bush Preemption Doctrine, Battered Women, Imminence and Anticipatory Self-Defense, New York University Review of Law and Social Change (2005)

Since the Bush Administration issued its controversial Preemption Doctrine, which claims to permit the United...

 

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Wonders of the Invisible World: Prosecutorial Syndrome and Profile Evidence in the Salem Witchcraft Trials, Vermont Law Review (2001)

The primary aims of this Article are to deconstruct the evidence from the Salem witchcraft...

 

Books

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Misconvictions: When Law & Science Collide (2013)

Forthcoming 2013.

 

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Scientific and Expert Evidence: Cases and Materials (with John M. Conley) (2011)
 

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Psychological and scientific evidence in criminal trials (1996)

Also author of annual supplements.

 

Contributions to Books

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"While Dangers Gather": The Bush Preemption Doctrine, Battered Women, Imminence and Anticipatory Self-Defense, Women and the Law (2007)
 

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Introduction and overview, The Role of Mental Illness in Criminal Trails (2001)

Volume 1 The history of mental illness in criminal cases.

Volume 2 The insanity defense.

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