CrimProf Blog

Features news, information, course materials, scholarship and research primarily for those teaching criminal law.

Author: Mark A. Godsey, a law professor a the University of Cincinnati College of Law, edits CrimProf Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network. Godsey also is faculty director of the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project.

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Recent Posts from CrimProf Blog

Sanford H. Kadish Berkley Criminal Law Professor
FS U Contact: Roxanne Livingston Sanford Kadish joined the Boalt faculty in 1964 and served as dean from 1975 to 1982. Previously, he taught at the University of Utah and the University of Michigan and…
New Trends in U.S. Violent Crime Patterns?
The Atlantic: Falling crime rates have been one of the great American success stories of the past 15 years. New York and Los Angeles, once the twin capitals of violent crime, have calmed down significantly,…
Changes Encouraged to Prevent False Confessions
There have been at least 56 wrongful convictions in New York State including those of Martin H. Tankleff and Jeffrey Mark Deskovic. Of those, at least 23 since 1991 have been based on DNA evidence…
Texas man gets 4,060 years in prison
WEATHERFORD, Texas - A man was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three teenage girls over two years. A day after finding James Kevin Pope guilty, jurors sentenced him…
Fired to rehired City's record poor when dismissals go to arbitration
The Cincinnati Police Department tried and failed 19 times to fire officers and dispatchers in the past decade. One officer tackled an unarmed Alzheimer's patient, resulting in a $700,000 settlement. Another was accused of shooting…
Terror watch uses local eyes Privacy advocates worry that officers' snooping will entangle innocent people
Hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and even utility workers have been trained and recently dispatched as "Terrorism Liaison Officers" in Colorado and a handful of other states to hunt for "suspicious activity" — and are…
In Court Ruling on Executions, a Factual Flaw
WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court ruled last week that the death penalty for raping a child was unconstitutional, the majority noted that a child rapist could face the ultimate penalty in only six states…
Not Winning the War on Drugs
According to the White House, this country is scoring big wins in the war on drugs, especially against the cocaine cartels. Officials celebrate that cocaine seizures are up — leading to higher prices on American…
Florida reinstituted the death penalty: State executes child killer
STARKE — Florida reinstituted the death penalty Tuesday with the execution of a child killer. Unlike a botched execution in 2006 that halted the state's death penalty for more than a year, the execution of…
UPR and Arizona CrimProf David Wexler: New Book on Criminal Practice and Therapeutic Jurisprudence
CrimProf David B. Wexler (SSRN) (Wikipedia) (Homepage) of the Universities of Puerto Rico and Arizona has published a new edited volume Rehabilitating Lawyers: Principles of Therapeutic Jurisprudence for Criminal Law Practice (Carolina Academic Press). The…