Criminal Law & Criminal Justice

October 09, 2024 EDT

“IF I DIE, DELETE MY BROWSER HISTORY”: THE FOURTH AMENDMENT IMPLICATIONS OF REVERSE KEYWORD SEARCH WARRANTS

Astrid Long-Kellough

This article explores technology and the Fourth Amendment.

September 30, 2023 EDT

Qualified Immunity: In Defense of “Clearly Established”

Eric Parker

This note examines the boundaries of accountability for law enforcement officers, advocating for qualified immunity to be based solely on clearly established legal standards at the time of their actions.

November 13, 2022 EDT

Police Reform: Training Officers to Reduce Improper Threat Detection, Which is Present in Many Unjust Killings and Worsened by PTSD, Cumulative Stress, and Implicit Racial Bias

Philip J. Silverman

This note discusses three major factors in police killings: inability to regulate stress, PTSD, and implicit racial biases and offers several solutions to prevent future police killings.

November 13, 2022 EDT

Assigning Criminal Responsibility to Defendants with Dissociative Identity Disorder

Madeline Easdale

This note explores the culpability of defendants with dissociative identity disorder and whether this disorder impacts defendants competency to stand trial.

November 13, 2022 EDT

A Blueprint for Municipal Police Reform

Christina Hambleton

This note outlines one blueprint for police reform that can liberate neighborhoods from police violence and discrimination.

March 04, 2021 EDT

Youthful Indiscretion or Adult Disability? State v. Carnes and the Unconstitutional Use of a Juvenile Adjudication to Charge an Adult with Having Weapons While Under Disability in Ohio

Mackenzie Cutteridge

This note analyzes State v. Carnes and the potential harm its interpretation of the weapons-under-disability statute can bring upon individuals within the juvenile justice system.

May 19, 2020 EDT

Informants v. Innocents: Informant Testimony and its Contribution to Wrongful Convictions

Melanie B. FessingerBrian H. BornsteinJeffrey S. NeuschatzDanielle DeLoachMegan A. HillgartnerStacy A. WetmoreAmy Bradfield Douglass

This article presents results from a content analysis of Innocence Record cases involving informants to understand their role in wrongful convictions.

December 01, 2019 EDT

Nix the “Fix”: An Analysis on Ohio’s Criminal Sentencing Law and its Effect on Prison Population

Amber G. Damiani

For decades, Ohio has been trying to combat its rising prison population. With the introduction of Senate Bill 2, Ohio thought it found relief when the inmate population decreased.

March 20, 2019 EDT

Legislating Against Hate: Why Ohio’s Hate Crime Statute, and the Sentencing Enhancements that Support it, Cannot Remedy Institutional Problems and Continued Bigotry

Sarah Ingles

A gaping wound in our society, hate-filled violence brutally attacks our communities, sense of being, sense of security, and sense of self.

January 30, 2019 EDT

Solving the Penn State Problem: Holding the Institution Accountable for its Conspiracy of Silence

Sarah J. Kropp

Thirty-six-year-old “Ben” confided to an archdiocese victim coordinator that a priest had sexually violated him when he was an altar boy at St. Mark Parish in Bristol, Pennsylvania.

January 12, 2019 EDT

Salinas v. Texas: The Fifth Amendment Self-Incrimination Burden

Matthew J. Thompson Jr.

Even if not “schooled in the particulars” of the Fifth Amendment, individuals still have beliefs about what is fundamentally fair.

July 31, 2018 EDT

Wiping the Slate Clean: A Proposal to Expand Ohio’s Expungement Statutes to Promote Effective Offender Reintegration

Sara C. Schiavone

A look at nationwide strategies, other than expungement, that attempt to promote successful reintegration.