.NJ Innocence Project at Rutgers University does it again! The team of #RutgersLaw Prof. Laura Cohen & students in her Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic, Attorney Laura Nirider, and Prof. Steven A Drizin of Northwestern Law helped exonerate a Queens man jailed for nearly 29 yrs. for murder: go.rutgers.edu/NJIPVictory

In this month's Psychology Today post, Talley Bettens summarizes our recent paper with @AllisonRedlich and Rachele DiFava examining the impact of evidence type on plea decision-making: psychologytoday.com/us/blog/injust…

Excited to share this forthcoming essay in Wisconsin Law Review, coauthored with my amazing colleague, Rick Su. It addresses a number of tricky issues raised by the state backlash against progressive prosecutors. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Interested in being a public defender? Want to have low case loads and close supervision? If you do apply to be an E. Barrett Prettyman fellow here- law.georgetown.edu/experiential-l…

My husband is in a band, bedecent. They’re playing at Otto’s Shruken Head in NYC next week on 9/8 and their debut EP is here. If you’re in NYC, come out to hear him play. It’s not a midlife crisis, I swear.

1--Markus Lanieux was arrested in 2008 after running from a traffic stop in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. He was charged with aggravated flight from an officer, which carries a max sentence of 2 years. So how did he end up sentenced to life without parole?

I was a senior in high school and saw a notice on a NYC street lamp asking for extras for MTV's Upright Citizens Brigade. I got into a stranger's van and drove to a warehouse in NJ (kids are dumb!). But it was real. I sat on a couch with Amy Poehler and she was amazing.

The Virginia Law Review Online Essay Contest is now live on our website! Submissions are due by Jan. 2 at 11:59 pm. We look forward to receiving your pieces. Please check out the website for additional info. virginialawreview.org/announcements/…

Can confirm that being a Grey Fellow is an amazing opportunity. Happy to talk to anyone who is thinking of applying.

#RutgersLaw Prof. Thea Johnson explains that while sanctions against waiting too long to share constitutionally mandated evidence is rare, it does send a clear message: pressherald.com/2023/10/03/ags… #lawtwitter

TODAY: Join us remotely or in person to discuss Jocelyn Simonson’s Radical Acts of Justice and the movements that are dismantling carceral & policing systems—and reimagining the meaning of safety & justice.

Seema Saifee is also an Assistant Professor at #RutgersLaw doing important wrongful conviction work. #lawtwitter

Agreed! subscribe to keep great writing alive. My favorites are New York Magazine & The New York Review of Books. Also, almost every university has a lit review. This tweet by Rachel Louise Snyder has inspired me to subscribe to Rutgers’ Raritan Quarterly. And shout out to the NDQ which published my first story ever

New Book Alert! With fellow editors Thea Johnson and Russell Covey, the book examines modern plea bargaining and the 14 Principles crafted by the ABA Criminal Justice Plea Bargaining Task Force to create a path forward. ABA Publishing #CostofPleaBargains #FixthePlea americanbar.org/products/inv/b…

I've been off of twitter for a long while, but this felt like a good reason to log back on. Happy to announce our **new book**: The Cost of Bargains, edited by me, Lucian E. Dervan and Russell Covey.

Terrific post in the LPE Blog by my colleague Kathryn Sabbeth is @ksabbeth.bsky.social about the focus on efficiency in eviction courts. The "benefits" of efficiency usually flow in one direction:

My latest in the Iowa Law Review Online. In response to Collusive Prosecution by McJunkin and Prescott, I ask whether we need to know *why* prosecutors make deals in sex crimes cases to figure out whether they *should* do so:

Hey everyone! Check out this new piece by Thea Johnson responding to my work with J.J. Prescott in the Iowa Law Review. She has some great insights into what likely motivates so-called “fictional” plea-bargaining, even in potentially pernicious sex offense cases.

And if you want to read our original article to which she responds, you can find it here: ilr.law.uiowa.edu/sites/ilr.law.…

Exciting new work by Katie Eyer!