Does American Criminal Justice Need Reform?

Join Judge Jed Rakoff, author of the new book Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free; former Judge Paul Cassell of the University of Utah College of Law; and Carissa Byrne Hessick of the University of North Carolina Law School for a timely conversation about current challenges in American criminal justice today and proposals for reform. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
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Additional resources:
• Jed Rakoff, Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System: us.macmillan.c...
• Jed Rakoff, The New York Review of Books, "Why Innocent People Plead Guilty": www.nybooks.co...
• Ed. Beloof, Cassell, Garvin, and Twist, Victims in Criminal Procedure, 4th Edition: cap-press.com/...
• Paul Cassell, “Can We Protect the Innocent Without Freeing the Guilty?” in Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution: Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent: www.cambridge....
• Paul Cassell and Kate Smith, National Constitution Center's Interactive Constitution, “The Fifth Amendment Criminal Procedure Clauses”: constitutionce...
• Paul Cassell and Emil Bazelon, We the People podcast, “Will Coronavirus Change Criminal Justice?”: constitutionce...
• Jeffrey Rosen and Paul Cassell, C-SPAN, “Supreme Court Landmark Cases: Miranda v Arizona”: www.c-span.org...
• Paul Cassell, Arizona Law Review, “Overstating America’s Wrongful Conviction Rate? Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom About the Prevalence of Wrongful Convictions”: arizonalawrevi...
• Paul Cassell and Amos Guiora, Utah Bar Journal, “Point/Counterpoint on the Miranda Decision: Should It Be Replaced or Retained?”: papers.ssrn.co...
• Paul Cassell, Boston University Law Review, “Still Handcuffing the Cops? A Review of Fifty Years of Empirical Evidence of Miranda's Harmful Effects on Law Enforcement”: papers.ssrn.co...
• Carissa Byrne Hessick, Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal: www.barnesandn...
• Carissa Byrne Hessick, Iowa Law Review, “Picking Prosecutors”: papers.ssrn.co...
• Carissa Byrne Hessick, Washington University Law Review, “Criminal Clear Statement Rules”: papers.ssrn.co...
• Carissa Byrne Hessick, Boston University Law Review, “Civilizing Criminal Settlements”: papers.ssrn.co...
• Malcolm Feeley, The Process is the Punishment: Handling Cases in a Lower Criminal Court: www.russellsag...
• 115th Congress, H.R.5682 - FIRST STEP Act (2018): www.congress.g...
• Pennsylvania Office of the Victim Advocate, Marsys Law: www.ova.pa.gov....
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966): www.oyez.org/c...
• United States v. Tigano, No. 15-3073 (2d Cir. 2018): law.justia.com...
• Kang-Brown, Montagnet, and Heiss, The Veera Institute, "People in Jail and Prison in 2020": law.justia.com...
• The National Registry of Exonerations: www.law.umich.e...
• Cooper, Meterko, and Gadtaula, The Innocence Project, "Innocents Who Plead Guilty: An Analysis of Patterns in DNA Exoneration Cases": www.innocencep...
• The Innocence Project, "Eyewittnes Identification Reform": innocenceproje...

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Will you be providing all of the resources that were linked in the chat during the live program?