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The new Netflix series, the “Innocence Files,” features the stories of eight Innocence Project exoneration cases. The exonerates are: Kennedy Brewer, Levon Brooks, Alfred Dewayne Brown, Franky Carrillo, Keith Harward, Thomas Haynesworth, Chester Hollman II, and Kenneth Wyniemko. The focus of the series is flawed forensics, eyewitness misidentifications, and prosecutorial misconduct  – three (of many) […]

The Spring issue of Judicature’s features a symposium on eyewitness evidence in the courts, with contributions by Tom Albright, Judge Jed Rakoff, Judge Theodore McKee, Chad Dodson, and Brandon Garrett, including pieces describing work by Dodson, Garrett, and collaborators, funded by Arnold Ventures and presented at Duke CSJ events last year. Tom Albright and Judge […]

Updated July 7.  Below is a running resource with links to media coverage of state prison policy related to COVID-19, by Deniz Ariturk, recent graduate of the MA program in Bioethics and Science Policy at Duke University: National Coverage: NYT: Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Neationwide (June 16) US Supreme Court […]

Updated April 27.  COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the justice system, as shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders have been declared throughout the country and a National Emergency was declared in mid-March. The judicial response to COVID-19 has varied state-by-state. The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) maintains up to date state profiles briefly summarizing […]

Updated May 12. The information below has been collected for the Center for Science and Justice from state corrections departments’ official websites, by Deniz Ariturk, recent graduate of the MA program in Bioethics and Science Policy at Duke University. States’ responses to COVID-19 have been quite varied, as has been the amount of information they provide […]

From Duke Law third-year Juliet Park (outgoing President of our Criminal Law Society), below is amazing and detailed work shared with CSJ from her research during her internship this Spring  at the Durham District Attorney’s Office. N.C. editorials and articles: NC COVID-19 and Criminal Justice Resources Public health experts have requested to Gov. Roy Cooper […]

COVID-19 presents an unprecedented challenge to the criminal justice system, and in particular to the safe operation of jails and detention centers. The Cook County Jail in Chicago is now the largest source of COVID-19 infections in the United States, and three people held in the jail have now died. This situation should alarm anyone […]

We have just published in the Duke Law Journal, an empirical article that grew out of an earlier report analyzing driver’s license suspensions in North Carolina.  The piece, by William Crozier and Brandon Garrett is: “Driven to Failure: An Empirical Analysis of Driver’s License Suspension in North Carolina.” A person’s interest in a driver’s license […]