Criminal Trial

Why Eyewitness Memory Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be (Part II)

Sam Sommers | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Trial, Court Case, Eyewitness Identification, Criminal Trial, Legal System, New York Times, Memory, Police Lineup, Armed Robbery, Expert Witness, Crime News
Sam Sommers

The legal complications of the constructive nature of memory are clear: being an accurate eyewitness is far more difficult that we give it credit for.

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The Criminal Trial Is Not About Justice for the Victim

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Casey Anthony, Criminal Trial, Casey Anthony Trial, Politics News
Alan Dershowitz

A criminal trial is not "a search for truth" or about "justice for the victim." Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

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David Rattner

Manhattan Man Guilty of Murder In Brutal Stabbing

HuffingtonPost.com | David Rattner | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Murder, Stabbing, Criminal Trial, Crime News

A 44-year-old drug dealer and addict with a long criminal record was found guilty of second-degree murder on Tuesday for the brutal stabbing death of ...

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Another Kind Of Paper Trail: Books Might Hold Key To Connecticut Killings

New York Times | William Glaberson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steven Hayes, Murder, In Cold Blood, Capote, Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Books, Fiction, Criminal Trial, Crime Novels, Reading, Books News

The defense lawyers' suggestion that prison library books could have shaped the crime, or that knowing Mr. Hayes read them could turn jurors against h...

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Guantánamo Detainees in U.S. Federal Courts

David Laufman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo, Federal Court, Al Queda, Criminal Justice System, Obama Guantanamo, Criminal Trial, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News
David Laufman

As the Obama Administration grapples with resolving the detention of prisoners at Guantánamo, one option which must be preserved is the criminal prosecution of detainees in U.S. federal courts.

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