Why the innocent plead guilty
In the late 1980s, Chris Ochoa was coerced into confessing to the rape and murder of the manager of a Pizza Hut restaurant in Austin, Texas. The police threatened Ochoa with the death penalty during...
View ArticleTake 5: What to watch for in the Tsarnaev trial
Opening statements in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will begin on Wednesday. Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University and a nationally known criminal...
View Article3Qs: Acquitted, but not necessarily exonerated
On Tuesday, 25-year-old Casey Anthony was acquitted of killing her two-year-old daughter in a capital murder case that captivated national audiences for some three years. We asked Northeastern...
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