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Judicial notebook: Law enforcement use of facial recognition technology
What the defense should know about reliability and role in prosecution.
Judicial notebook: Does pretrial publicity overly bias the prospective jury pool?
A defendant’s right to a fair trial in the face of extensive media coverage.
Judicial Notebook: How to help judges better understand what qualifies someone as an expert
Revised rules of evidence could enhance their ability to screen expert testimony.
Judicial notebook: The other guy did it too
How does a confession that mentions a codefendant’s involvement affect jury determinations of guilt?
Judicial Notebook: Is justice blind if we say it is?
A U.S. Supreme Court case raises the issue of whether jurors can determine how influenced they are by potentially biasing characteristics of a defendant, such as shackles
Judicial notebook: Expanding access to the insanity defense
A case before the Supreme Court of Georgia may allow more youth to invoke the insanity defense and highlights a need for research on how judges view juvenile mental illness.
Judicial notebook: Much ado about tattoos
A case involving the digital concealment of tattoos for a police lineup highlights the need for more research on how eyewitnesses identify suspects with distinctive features.
Judicial notebook: Were the injuries already there?
More research is needed on jurors’ perceptions and decisions in civil cases involving preexisting injury.
Judicial notebook: What sways a death penalty decision?
Psychology is exploring which mitigating factors lead judges and jurors to decide whether to hand down life imprisonment versus a death sentence.
Judicial notebook: What is mental anguish worth?
Some states put less value on mental and emotional distress than on physical injuries.
Judicial notebook: I think I’ve seen you before
Courts grapple with expert witness testimony when eyewitnesses may have seen perpetrators before a crime.
Judicial notebook: Black lives matter
Psychological research findings offer ways to foster justice.
Judicial notebook: Do we still need to study the death penalty?
Gallup polling shows support for the death penalty in the United States is at a 40-year low.
Judicial notebook: Lies during jury selection: What are the costs?
Biases can affect jurors’ legal decisions, of more concern is the impact that such biases may have on other jurors.
Judicial notebook: A look at expert testimony on false confessions
Researchers in psychology can assist courts by defining and clarifying the probative and prejudicial nature of this “expert” testimony.
Judicial notebook: Can specialty courts turn lives around?
Article discusses how problem-solving courts focus on treatment and rehabilitation rather than punishment, trying to solve the underlying issues that brought an individual into the justice system.
JUDICIAL NOTEBOOK: Death penalty sentencing: Should the majority rule?
Timothy Ring appealed his death sentence to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the judge in his trial rendered the death penalty verdict, a procedure that violated his Sixth Amendment right to a trial by a jury.
Judicial Notebook: Is rape a crime worthy of the death penalty?
Are African-Americans more likely to receive the death penalty for raping a child? Should children's testimony in rape cases be enough to convict and sentence defendants to death, when research suggests that children are susceptible to memory errors?
