The Brain, the Criminal, and the Courts
By Eryn Brown Knowable Magazine On March 30, 1981, 25-year-old John W. Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan and three other people. The following year, he went on trial for […]
Tag Archives: Criminal Defense
Defending Kevin Davis’s “The Brain Defense”
By Andreas Kuersten TheThresh.com The drafting of a book is an intense undertaking, requiring a significant devotion of time and effort. Accordingly, book reviewers have an obligation to apply themselves […]
Should Police Body Camera Footage be Public Record?
By Kate Wheeling Pacific Standard Police departments across the United States are equipping their officers withbody cameras, but few have laws on the books to control who can access the […]
The Future of Legal Services for the Poor
By Matthew Van Meter Longreads The Bronx Defenders was born in 1997 from Robin Steinberg’s belief that the public-defender system was failing the poor people it represented. In principle, public […]
Inside a Tainted Court-Martial
By John Woodrow Cox The Washington Post Innocent. That’s what Marine Maj. Mark Thompson declared the first time we met. He’d been fighting to prove it ever since two young […]
What’s Justice for Kids Who Kill?
By Dana Goldstein The Marshall Project On Feb. 1, 2016, a Brooklyn jury convicted Kahton Anderson of second-degree murder and other charges in the death of Angel Rojas. Anderson slumped […]
For People Raised in Chaos, Risk-Taking (and Law Breaking) is Hardwired
By Matthew Hutson Nautilus Robin Marvel was never supposed to succeed. By the time she was a teenager she’d watched her mother be violently beaten by her father and a […]
Brain Scans in the Courtroom
By Andreas Kuersten The Scientist A group of men exit a city hotel and begin making their way to a waiting car. As they approach the vehicle, another man opens […]
How Your Brain Decides Blame and Punishment
By Amy Wolf Vanderbilt University Juries in criminal cases typically decide if someone is guilty, then a judge determines a suitable level of punishment. New research confirms that these two […]
When the Womb is a Crime Scene
By Nina Martin ProPublica For this story, ProPublica and AL.com filed multiple public information requests to identify the more than 1,800 women arrested under the chemical endangerment law, then sifted […]
