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

Watch it here (some adult language)

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

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

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

This bill would make NY an open file discovery state. Indicate your support for the bill and read more here. #CJreform

Examiners cannot not assert that two friction ridge impressions originated from the same source to the exclusion of all other sources;...

Ryan Schneider has been accepted to the PhD program in Clinical Psychology here at MSU & Victoria Ghering has been accepted to the MA...

A guilty plea, by itself, does not bar a federal criminal defendant from challenging the constitutionality of the statute of conviction...

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Read his column on In Justice Today here

LEGAL UPDATE: IGNORANCE OF THE LAW CAN NO LONGER BE A DEFENSE FOR RESEARCHERS Tina M.Zottoli, Ph.D. & Vanessa A. Edkins, Ph.D. Issue...

Catching up on some older news. Ryan was awarded a grant in November of this past year to support his research on factors that contribute...

Welcome to the new website for the Adolescent Decision Making and Legal Competencies Lab at Montclair University. Our Blog is currently...