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Feb 161 min read

Dr. Daftary-Kapur receives grant from National Institute of Justice

Dr. Daftary-Kapur recently received a grant from the National Institute of Justice to examine the variations in “second look” sentencing...

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Mar 9, 20231 min read

Congratulations to Julia & Drew

Congratulations to our doctoral student Julia Stratton and Master's student Drew Melancon for their APLS Grant-In-Aid awards! Julia's...

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Feb 23, 20231 min read

Congratulations Ryan & Tristin

Congratulations to our doctoral student's Ryan Schneider and Tristin Faust for successfully matching for internship! Ryan will be doing...

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Mar 15, 20221 min read

Juvenile-lifers released in Philadelphia are doing well

Our latest paper (in press) reports on survey data from 112 juvenile–lifers released in Philadelphia. We asked about their early life...

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Mar 4, 20221 min read

Congratulations to Lauren!

Congratulations to our doctoral student Lauren Grove for successfully matching for internship!!

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Mar 4, 20221 min read

Congratulations Kim!

Kimberly Echevarria, is a first year MA student, in the Legal Decision Making Lab and the Clinical Psychology program, Forensic...

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Dec 30, 20201 min read

Congratulations Brandon!

Congratulations to lab member Brandon Shintani on being accepted to the very selective Yale Young Global Scholars Program (YYGS)! YYGS...

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Oct 21, 20201 min read

Congratulations Conor & Jenn!!

Conor Hogan and Jenn Bartlett have the distinction of being the first doc students from the MSU Legal Decisions Making lab to pass...

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Oct 8, 20201 min read

Juvenile Lifers Should be Considered for Early Release

In light of the pandemic, some parole boards and prosecutor have released elderly inmates and those who have been convicted of low-level...

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Apr 30, 20201 min read

Juvenile lifers can be considered low-risk releases

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Nov 25, 20191 min read

Congrats to Conor and Tristin!

Conor Hogan, third year Ph.D. student in the Clinical Psychology program (forensic emphasis) successfully defended his master's thesis,...

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Feb 28, 20191 min read

SCOTUS

Yesterday, SCOTUS held in Garza v. Idaho that when a defendant’s lawyer does not file appeal on instruction of his client, because there...

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Dec 26, 20181 min read

New Research Collaboration with the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office

We are excited to announce a new research collaboration with the Philadelphia District Attorney's office. Projects in development ...

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Dec 26, 20181 min read

Check out our new paper

Our latest paper on guilty plea decisions of juveniles was published in Law and Human Behavior this month. We interviewed 64 youth and 56...

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Oct 4, 20181 min read

Join Us on October 15

#WrongfulConviction #MSU

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Aug 28, 20181 min read

NYS establishes the first committee on prosecutor misconduct in nation

On August 20, NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill that establishes an independent commission to investigate allegations of...

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Aug 8, 20181 min read

John Oliver discusses prosecutorial power on Last Week Tonight (HBO)

Watch it here (some adult language)

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Jul 10, 20181 min read

Undisclosed Pod Bonus Episode on Guilty Pleas

Recently the Undisclosed podcast did an episode on the obstacles to post conviction relief for individuals convicted by guilty plea....

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May 11, 20181 min read

May 2 Wrongful Conviction Panel Discussion on False Guilty Pleas

Another great panel discussion on Wrongful Convictions, sponsored by the MSU Psychology Department and the Deskovic Foundation for...

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Mar 20, 20181 min read

"Testilying" by police

Interesting NYTimes article on the persistence of false testimony by police in NYC. Read here. Also, consider Akil Reed Amar's position...

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