Criminal Law

"Law Without Suits: New Hires Flout Tradition; Young Attorneys' Casual Attire Draws Criticism at Big Firms; A Crackdown on Ugg Boots."
"Law Without Suits: New Hires Flout Tradition; Young Attorneys' Casual Attire Draws Criticism at Big Firms; A Crackdown on Ugg Boots." The Wall Street Journal contains this article today.

Estreicher & Lester on Employment Law
Congratulations to Samuel Estreicher (NYU) and Gillian Lester (Berkeley) on the publication of their new book Employment Law (Foundation Press; part of the Concepts and Insights Series)...

The Lester Bower Case
Sunday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported, "Witness says condemned Arlington man isn't responsible for 1983 slayings," by Tim Madigan. Just a few paragraphs into the Star-Telegram story, the woman knew something was terribly wrong...

More on Estreicher-Lester Concepts and Insights Employment Law
As Rick pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Samuel Estreicher (NYU) and Gillian Lester (Berkeley) just published their new book Employment Law (Foundation Press; part of the Concepts and Insights Series)...

R. v. Bonisteel
In recent years the strange phenomenon of the false confession has been gaining a lot of attention. Strange because, after all, who would confess to a crime they didn’t commit? Because of this common sense way of looking at things, the value of a confession as proof of guilt is quite high, and typically a [...

Forced confession results in acquittal
The Kwame Wells-Jordan trial in New Haven has had it all: false confessions, recanting co-defendants, a near-fight between the state’s star witness and the prosecutor, a cop who has since retired amidst scandal and expert testimony on false confessions...