Duke Law Advocacy & Scholarship

Opinion-Editorials:

• One System, Two Realities - Professor James E. Coleman, Jr., Director of the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility, puts the attorney general's decision to vacate charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens into the larger context of wrongful convictions.

• One killing, two theories, zero justice - State and federal authorities with separate theories cannot both be right about who killed Myron Hailey, Professor Theresa Newman, Executive Director of the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility, writes.

Articles, Essays, and Notes:

• All Eyes on Us: A Comparative Critique of the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission - (Jerome M. Maiatico '09) Duke Law Journal, Vol. 56, p. 1345 (2007).
• The Duke Lacrosse Case, Innocence, and False Identifications: A Fundamental Failure to "Do Justice" - (Professor Robert P. Mosteller) Fordham Law Review, Vol. 76, p. 1337 (2007).
• Exculpatory Evidence, Ethics, and the Road to the Disbarment of Mike Nifong: The Critical Importance of Open-File Discovery - (Professor Robert P. Mosteller) George Mason Law Review, Vol. 15, p. 257 (2008).
• Manufacturing Convictions: Why Defendants are Entitled to the Data Underlying Forensic DNA Kits - (Jennifer N. Mellon) Duke Law Journal, Vol. 51, p. 1097 (2001).
• Montejo v. Louisiana: Affirmative Requests and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel - (Jacob E. Warren '09) Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar, Vol. 4, p. 293 (2009).
• Reforming Eyewitness Identification Procedures Under the Fourth Amendment - (Sarah Anne Mourer) Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Vol. 3, p. 49 (2008).
• Reining in the Minister of Justice: Prosecutorial Oversight and the Superseder Power - (Abby L. Dennis '08) Duke Law Journal, Vol. 57, p. 131 (2007).
• Victim's Rights in an Adversary System - (Erin C. Blondel '09) Duke Law Journal, Vol. 58, p. 237 (2008).
• Was He Guilty as Charged? An Alternative Narrative Based on the Circumstantial Evidence from 12 Angry Men - (Professors Neil Vidmar, Sara Sun Beale, Erwin Chemerinsky & James E. Coleman, Jr.) Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 82, p. 691.