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State Code Covering Petty Offenses Needs Update, 1/13/12
Defining 'Reasonable Doubt' Proves Challenging, 12/9/11
Scientists and Legal Scholars Study 'Moral Luck,' 11/11/11
Courts Address Issue of Eyewitness Identifications, 10/14/11
Court Takes on Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule, 9/9/11
What is an Affront to the Concept of Federalism?, 8/12/11
Why Hasn't the Supreme Court Addressed This? 7/8/11
Supreme Court Addresses a Kafka-esque Situation, 6/10/11
Beware of Decisions Construing Illinois Criminal Code, 5/13/11
Some Advice: Let's Leave Well Enough Alone, 4/8/11
How Do You Interpret the Fourth Amendment?, 3/11/11
'Texas Tough' Looks at Criminal Justice System, 2/11/11
'Not in My Courtroom' Could be Reversible Error, 1/14/11
Tailor-Made Protection for a Privileged Few, 12/10/10
The Impact the New Term Will Have on Decisions, 11/12/10
Criminal Defense Lawyers Need Broad Knowledge, 10/8/10
Technology and Its Impact on the Fourth Amendment, 9/10/10
Guaranteeing Indigent Defendants a DNA Expert, 8/13/10
Defense Lawyers May Need to Rethink Advice to Clients, 7/9/10
Studying the Significance of Standard of Review, 6/11/10
How Lineups May Contribute to Wrongful Convictions, 5/14/10
U.S. Supreme Court Should Merely Lay the Floor, 4/9/10
Four Justices Strongly Impact Criminal Procedure, 3/12/10
Intermediate Sanctions Offer Hope To Probationers, 2/12/10
When Is It Lawful For Police To Search Vehicles, 1/08/10
The Role Of The Courts In Criminal Justice, 12/11/09
4th District Pulls Plug On 'Human Lie Detector,' 11/13/09
'Conditional Plea' Should Be An Option In Illinois, 10/09/09
Sotomayor Can't Escape An Overworked Word, 9/11/09
Defense Attorneys, Start Planning Your Strategy, 8/14/09
High Court's Output Small But Significant, 7/10/09
Studying the Art of Judicial Decision-Making, 6/12/09
Defendants Need To Be Seen and Heard, 5/08/09
High Court Sets Some Limits for Trial Judges, 4/10/09
Organizational Thinking Leads to Injustice, 3/13/09
Exclusionary Rule Hanging On By a Thread, 2/13/09
This Year, Resolve to Take a Shot at Federal Relief, 1/9/09
Washing the Fourth Amendment Away, 12/12/08
Finding a Definition for 'High Crime Area', 11/14/08
Prosecutors Holding More Chips Than Defendants, 10/10/08
Two Upcoming Cases Could Have Profound Impact, 9/12/08
Defendant's Choice of Counsel a Fundamental Right, 8/8/08
Ruling Connects Constitutional Defenses, 7/11/08
Mens Rea Can be Found in Sex Crime Against Child, 6/20/08
Traffic Code: The New Vagrancy Laws, 4/26/08
Time, Place for 'Anticipatory Warrants', 4/11/08
State Court's 'Required' Ruling Profoundly Sad, 3/14/2008
Taking a Closer Look at 'Effective Assistance', 2/22/08
One of the Most Bizarre Laws on htraE, 1/18/2008
Consent to Search Doesn't Come Gift-Wrapped, 12/21/07
The Public Enemy: Eyewitness Experts, 11/9/07
Judge Speaks His Mind, Sends a Message, 10/12/07
Approach To Sentencing Needs Mitigation, 9/21/07
A STARK New Cabal on the Supreme Court, 8/10/07
The Power and Reasoning of 'Lockstep', 7/13/07
Miranda Pushed 'Voluntariness' to the Background, 5/18/07
The Constitution: Puzzling or Mysterious?, 4/13/07
Truth: Justices Will Know It When They See It, 3/9/07
Driver's Fuzzy Dice Should Say It All, 2/9/07
Type of Evidence May Outweigh the Strength, 1/12/07
Beginnings of the 'Innocence Revolution', 12/8/06
Real-World Approach Leads Court to Dump Search, 11/10/06
Requests, Commands Lost in Translation, 10/13/06
Fantasies of Defense Lawyers and Justices, 9/8/06
It's a Bird, it's a Plane, it's Felony Murder, 8/11/06
Boyd Ruling Still Shows Some Signs of Life, 7/14/06
What Helen Palsgraf Could Teach Illinois, 6/9/06
Severing Fourth and Fifth Amendments, 5/17/06
Beyond 2 Camps On Top Court, Another Theory, 4/19/06Statutory Construction Should Be As Easy As 1, 2, 3, 3/10/06
Determining the Strike Zone on the New Court, 2/10/06
'Voluntary' Searches a Fairy Tale: Reviews, 1/13/06Does 'Poetry' Have a Place in a Criminal Trial?, 12/9/05Devising New Labels for Men and Women in Robes, 11/11/05
Courts Locking Selves in on Search and Seizure, 10/14/05
State Search-and-Seizure Law Gets a Makeover, 9/9/05A Ruling's Message: Break The Ties That Bind, 8/12/05Court Recognizes Separate Species, 7/8/05
Fourth Amendment Analysis Deserves Subtlety, 6/10/05
Cause and Effect - and Good Intentions, 5/20/05
Bright-Line Rule Spotlights Sham of Rationale, 4/8/05 And the Lockstep Beat Still Goes On, 3/25/05
State's Court of Last resort is in D.C., 2/11/05Police Testimony Undoes Conviction , 1/21/05 Courts Should Send Message to Prosecutors, 12/10/04Conduct, Results and Knowledge, 11/12/04Taped Confessions, a Bag of Tricks, 10/8/04Essential, Yes, But Role of Jury Stirs Debate, 09/10/04Miranda Isn't Just about the Fifth Amendment, 08/13/04Miranda Cases Tip Balance in Favor of Prosecution, 07/04/04Automatic Reversal Down, Not Out, 06/11/04Standard Terms and Tangled Law, 05/07/04"Other Crimes" and Other People, 04/09/04'Two Ideas' a Lonely Camp; 'One Idea' a Majority, 03/12/04In Road Block Case, 'Proprietor' Gives up the Store, 02/06/04Moving to Suppress under Fourth Amendment, 01/09/04
5 Reasons Defense Attorneys Should Be Thankful, 12/12/03Good night, Gideon. Wake up, Muhammed, 11/14/03Top Court Extends Federalism to Criminal Realm, 10/10/03Traffic Stop Raises Troubling Question of Race, 09/12/03Troubling Murder Ruling May Be On Shaky Ground, 08/01/03"Making" or "Discovering" Law Makes Big Difference, 07/11/03Totally Self-imposed, Completely Unnecessary, 06/13/03Scope of "Probable Cause" Probably Will Widen, 05/09/03When Cops Ask Questions, State Law May Be Foil, 04/09/03State Courts Need To Be Told When They're Wrong, 03/14/03
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