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What are some common mistakes made by crime scene investigators during the recovery of human skeletal remains?
This month Gabriel Reyes reviews In Hoffa’s Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth by Jack Goldsmith.
Smartphones can create a detailed record of what their users have been doing. Wisconsin litigator Peyton Engel focuses on the traits smartphones have in common with general-purpose computers and the implications from a digital evidentiary perspective. He discusses retrieving evidence from smartphones, extracting information from cloud storage, finding evidence of a secret or hidden phone, wearable tech, issuing subpoenas for social media records, and using apps to collect evidence.
Panel from the 2020 Presidential Summit and Sentencing Symposium, co-hosted with the Georgetown University Law Center American Criminal Law Review
Race Data Matters: Using Expert Testimony and Social Science Data about Discriminatory Policing to Win Pretrial Motions: Part II presented by Alison Siegler, Clinical Law Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Race Matters I: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice September 14-15, 2017 | Detroit, MI
Due to the increased push for prosecutions in drug-related deaths, it is more important than ever for criminal justice system stakeholders to have access to accurate, standardized, and professional death investigation and death certification. Amy Hawes and Denise Martin share some of the common pitfalls in drug death investigations, discuss national recommendations for coroner and medical examiner investigations, and set forth the qualifications death investigation experts should possess.
Presented by: Brian Pori, Assistant Federal Public Defender, New Mexico; and Sarah St. Vincent, Researcher/Advocate, US Program, Human Rights Watch
Presented by: Detective James Trainum (ret.), Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department; and Deja Vishny, Homicide Practice Group Coordinator and Deputy Training Director, Wisconsin State Public Defender
Presented by: Colin Fieman Assistant Federal Public Defender, Tacoma, WA; and Paul Ohm, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
This webinar was supported in part by Grant No. 2013-MU-BX-K014 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Presented by Michael L. Perlin
This training is supported by Grant No. 2013-MU-BX-K014 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Letter from current and former judges, prosecutors, law enforcement, defense attorneys, and others to members of Congress on the need for reform and clarification of federal criminal discovery obligations.
It is the criminal defendant who is at a disadvantage in a case involving foreign evidence. Among other things, the government has access to evidence through mutual legal assistance treaties and informal cooperation agreements. The authors provide an overview of constitutional issues defendants face when seeking foreign evidence in cross-border cases. They also discuss the methods defendants can use to obtain foreign evidence and the hurdles they may encounter when seeking it.
Letter to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure regarding proposed changes to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence.
Comments to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure regarding proposed amendments to Rule 803(10) of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
