Mark A. Godsey / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012
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 Gillispie’s case for 9 years before finally obtaining this victory. Gillispie spent 20 years in prison. Read more about the case in Deborah Rieselman, UC Students Help Free Dean Gillispie From Prison, UC Magazine, Dec. 2011. Other media reports on Mr. Gillespie’s release follow:
- Rapist Released After 20 Year Conviction (WCPO Channel 9 News, Dec. 11, 2011);
- Gillispie Released From Prison (WTDN Channel 2 News, Dec. 20, 2011;
- Janice Morse, UC Law Students Celebrate Overturned Conviction, Cin. Enquirer, Dec. 16, 2011;
- Tom Beyerlein, His 20-Year Battle for Freedom Closer; Rape Trial Was Unfair, Man Should Be Retried or Set Free, Judge Rules, Dayton Daily News, Dec. 19, 2011, at A1; and
- Janice Morse, Man Freed After 20 Years in Prison, Cin. Enquirer, Dec. 23, 2011.
Find the two opinions and orders in the Gillispie case at:
- Gillispie v. Timmerman-Cooper, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 147841 (S.D. Ohio, Dec. 22, 2011); and
- Gillispie v. Timmerman-Cooper, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 144667 (S.D. Ohio, Dec. 15, 2011).
Mark submitted a solicited article to the peer-reviewed Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law entitled “False Justice and the ‘True’ Prosecutor: A Memoir, Tribute, and Commentary”.
Mark’s article, Shining the Bright Light on Police Interrogation in America, 6 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 711 (2009) (reviewing Richard A. Leo, Police Interrogation and American Justice (2008)), was cited in Rinat Kitai-Sangero, Commentaries: Can Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment Help Us Distinguish Between True and False Confessions?, 9 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 231 (2011).
Lewis Goldfarb / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012
Lew and his co-author, Bob Deitrick, completed the manuscript for Bulls, Bears, and the Ballot Box, a book that reviews and evaluates the economic performance of our presidents and their political parties from the Great Depression and Herbert Hoover (1929) through the Great Recession and George W. Bush (2008), an 80-year time period during which the Democrats and Republicans have shared the Oval Office for precisely 40 years each. The book can be pre-ordered now from most bookstores, including Amazon and other online sites, and will be published on May 1, 2012, during the run up to the 2012 presidential election on November 6, 2012.
Kenneth J. Hirsh / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012
Emily M.S. Houh / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012
In early January, Emily attended the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, where she was elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Contracts. Emily also was recently appointed to serve on the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Law and Interpretation.
On January 27, UC Law’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, which Emily co-directs with Professors Kristin Kalsem and Verna Williams, hosted its first event of the spring semester, “A Conversation with David Lopez, General Counsel of the EEOC.”
Ann Hubbard / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012
Kristin Kalsem / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012
On January 27, UC Law’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, which Kristin co-directs with Professors Emily Houh and Verna Williams, hosted its first event of the spring semester, “A Conversation with David Lopez, General Counsel of the EEOC.”
Kristin’s article, Social Justice Feminism, 18 UCLA Women’s L.J. 131 (2010) (with Verna L. Williams), was recently listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for Family Law (private).
Christo Lassiter / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012
Christo’s article, Eliminating Consent from the Lexicon of Traffic Stop Interrogations, 27 Cap. U. L. Rev. 79 (1998), was cited in State v. Lowe, 2012 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 8 (Iowa Jan. 20, 2012).