Several of Lou’s articles were cited: Moral Appropriateness, Capital Punishment, and the Lockett Doctrine, 82 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 283 (1991), in Richard A. Bierschbach, in Proportionality and Parole, 160 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1745 (2012); The New Scrutiny, … Continue reading →
Mark was a featured speaker at the first-ever conference in China on wrongful convictions. Attendees included professors, prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges from across China. Mark assisted the start-up of new Innocence Projects in the Philippines and Taiwan. Mark’s article, … Continue reading →
Christo’s article, Eliminating Consent from the Lexicon of Traffic Stop Interrogations, 27 Cap. U. L. Rev. 79 (1998), was cited in Ronald D. Rotunda & John E. Nowak, Treatise on Constitutional Law-Substance & Procedure (3d ed., Thomson West Supp. 2012). … Continue reading →
Janet organized and led a panel discussion, “Can the Prosecutor Be Rehabilitated?” at the 2012 Conference of the Open Society Institute’s Soros Justice Fellows. Panelists from around the country included law professors Jonathan Rapping and Robert Boruchowitz, freed death row … Continue reading →
Lou’s article, Moral Appropriateness, Capital Punishment, and the Lockett Doctrine, 82 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 283 (1991), was cited in William W. Berry, III, Practicing Proportionality, 64 Fla. L. Rev. 687(2012). Lou was mentioned in: UC Arts & Sciences … Continue reading →
Mark spoke about the international expansion of the innocence movement at a number of law schools in Poland and the Czech Republic. He also addressed the Constitutional Court of Poland, which is the equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court. Mark … Continue reading →
On March 14, Mark, who serves as the faculty director of the College’s Ohio Innocence Project (OIP), and the OIP students and staff won the release of Bryant “Rico” Gaines, who served nine years of a life sentence for a … Continue reading →
Mark launched The Wrongful Convictions Blog at www.wrongfulconvictionsblog.org with editors from around the globe. To find out more about Mark’s new Wrongful Convictions Blog, click here. Mark’s article, Reformulating the Miranda Warnings in Light of Contemporary Law and Understandings, 90 Minn. L. … Continue reading →
Christo’s article, TV or Not TV – That Is the Question?, 86 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 928 (1996), was cited in Kevin F. O’Malley, Jay E. Grenig & William C. Lee, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions (6th ed. Thomson/West … Continue reading →
In December 2011, Roger Dean Gillispie walked free from the London Correctional Institute in London, Ohio, after a federal judge threw out his rape conviction. As director of UC Law’s Ohio Innocence Project, Mark had worked as lead counsel on … Continue reading →