Former Rhode Island police officer Scott Hornoff waited in prison for six years, four months and 18 days before he was exonerated. Convicted of murder in 1996, Hornoff worked for years to prove his ...

In recent years, the criminal defense industry has gone through many changes, such as the growing influence of artificial ...

The UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement warned in a report on Wednesday of the prevalent racism against Africans and people of ...

The legislature has made dramatic reforms to our criminal justice system over the past several years—limiting monetary bail, increasing the discovery obligations of prosecutors, reducing incarceration ...

A version of this study was originally published on June 10. We previously used the term “racial conspiracy theories” as an editorial shorthand to describe a complex and mixed set of findings. By ...

The sense of what is fair is an ingrained sensibility that human beings have naturally from childhood. Even children can be heard to call out, “that’s not fair!” Fairness is also a basic American ...

I recently published a law review article in the Texas Law Review's symposium on mercy and the law, concerning the proper role of crime victims in the criminal justice process. Here's the abstract: ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...