When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, courts across the United States moved in-person hearings to virtual hearings within a matter of days. The transition heavily impacted criminal defendants, whose cases overnight depended on video conferences. As COVID-19 cases rose, so did the number of defendants pleading guilty, raising serious due process concerns across the country (Baldwin et al., 2020). The Sixth Amendment guarantees that “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall

The same Framers who built checks and balances to guard against human mistakes also knew the limits of their own imagination.

With youth specifically, there are questions about both comprehension of their rights and ability to protect such rights during interrogations.

Review of Chorn & Kovera (2019) - Variations in Reliability and Validity Do Not Influence Judge, Attorney, and Mock Juror Decisions

Killing, maiming, decapitating, dismembering. Would you want your children to partake in these activities? What if they could do so in a...

High profile cases often attract a significant amount of media attention, which makes the process of jury selection insanely difficult....

Imagine you are going through a messy divorce. The judge tells you that you have the right to an attorney, but you don’t have enough...

When someone is released from prison after being wrongfully convicted, what happens to them? Many might assume that after exoneration,...