Articles
The NAS Report: An Evidence Professor’s Perspective, It's Evident (National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law) (2009)
The focus of the National Academy of Sciences’ February, 2009 report "Strengthening Forensic Science in...
Electronically Stored Information: A Primer for Litigators, Widener School of Law Magazine (2009)
Cross-Examination: Seemingly Ubiquitous, Purportedly Omnipotent, and “At Risk”, Widener Law Review (2009)
Death-Worthiness and Prosecutorial Discretion in Capital Case Charging, Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review -- Forthcoming (2009)
Any attempt to assess the merits of a prosecutorial ‘selection’ scheme in capital-eligible homicide cases...
“Genetic Surveillance” - The Bogeyman Response to Familial DNA Investigations, University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy (2009)
Familial DNA “searches” occur when investigators find a partial match between a crime scene evidence...
Avoiding Trial by Rumor: Identifying the Due Process Threshold for Hearsay Evidence After the Demise of the Ohio v. Roberts "Reliability" Standard, University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review (2008)
This Article responds to the dictum in Whorton v. Bockting that "the Confrontation Clause has...
I’ll Never Forget That Face . . . (But I Might Not Remember It Accurately), Widener School of Law Magazine (2007)
The Great Engine That Couldn’t: Science, Mistaken Identifications, and the Limits of Cross-Examination, Stetson Law Review (2007)
Wigmore's assertion that cross-examination is the greatest engine for the search for the truth comes...
Tri-State Vagaries: The Varying Responses of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania to the Phenomenon of Mistaken Identifications, Widener Law Review (2006)
Mistaken identifications vex the criminal law, and are a manifest and well-documented source of wrongful...
True Lies: The Constitutional and Evidentiary Bases for Admitting Prior False Accusation Evidence in Sexual Assault Prosecutions, Quinnipiac Law Review (2006)
The admission of false accusation evidence in sexual assault prosecutions has been ruled on inconsistently...