When prosecutors’ caseloads increase, so do dismissal rates.
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There’s a separate justice system for people under 18 because their brains are still developing. Treating them as adults can turn them into repeat offenders.
Grand juries, historically rubber stamps for prosecutors’ attempts to indict, are rejecting the Trump administration’s moves to indict the president’s perceived enemies. That’s unprecedented.
Until now, researchers and the public knew very little about how well women were represented outside the federal government.
With co-defendants of Donald Trump accepting plea bargains, an expert in criminal law explains what these legal agreements are and how they work.
Department of Justice prosecutors could have composed a technocratic document intelligible only to other criminal law insiders when indicting Donald Trump in the documents case. They did much more.
Like all criminal defendants, Trump will enjoy the protection that a jury will offer from abuse by government prosecutors.
Most prosecutors are elected in uncontested races across the country. But there are signs that the posts are becoming political hotbeds, placing more pressure on the criminal justice system.
A new wave of prosecutors, known as progressives, say that public safety can exist with policies like eliminating cash bail for people charged with low-level offenses.
Grand juries are meeting in Georgia and Washington, D.C., as part of investigations into attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. How do they work?
Reform-minded prosecutors across the US notched victories against traditional law-and-order candidates by running on progressive platforms to reduce mass incarceration and tackle police misconduct.
When prosecutors introduce lyrics, they’re asking juries to suspend the distinction between author and narrator, reality and fiction, and to read them as literal confessions of guilt.
Women and children remain vulnerable to harm even after intimate violence has occurred. Coordinating a community’s response can help avoid educational, employment, social, housing and legal problems.
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Professor, Department of Justice Studies, Montclair State University
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Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Denver
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Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University
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Teaching Professor of Law, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Law, Texas A&M University
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Professor of law, Washington University in St. Louis
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of Liberal Arts, University of Richmond
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Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell