Criminal Justice and the Court’s Past Term
Publisher
Harvard University Press Blog
Date
2013-8-2
With the past Term’s Supreme Court’s decisions behind us, commentators, scholars, and judges, are still processing the implications of the major decisions on race, voting rights, and same sex marriage. Understandably less noticed have been three decisions with real implications for criminal justice. In cases concerning the procedural barriers to relief when evidence of innocence arises after conviction, the expanded collection and storage of DNA, and the conduct of police interrogations, the Court issued rulings that bear on the accuracy of our criminal justice system.
Citation
Brandon L. Garrett, Criminal Justice and the Court’s Past Term, Harvard University Press Blog (August 2, 2013).