Douglas Cogan

CNN premiering new film "American Jail"

"Originalism and the Common Law Infancy Defense"

"Supreme Irrelevance: The Court's Abdication in Criminal Procedure Jurisprudence"

A quick look at how Justice Kennedy's retirement might impact capital punishment jurisdrudence

Some GVRs, summary reversal of the Ninth Cirucit and Justice Breyer dissenting to contend "the death penalty today lacks requisite reliability"

SCOTUS grants cert to reconsider Double Jeopardy Clause's "dual-sovereignty doctrine"

"Betting Odds for Next Supreme Court Justice: Who Will Replace Anthony Kennedy?"

Texas completes execution of serial killer, its seventh of 2018

"For Justice and Decarceration, Enact Second-Look Sentencing"

Questioning the use of actuarial risk assessment tools at sentencing

Seven years in development, Pennsylvania task force issues huge report on state's (dormant) capital punishment system

"Outraged By Kids In Cages? Look At Our Entire Juvenile Justice System."

Looks like not much for criminal justice fans as SCOTUS winds down its 2017 Term

Can we predict how federal immigration crackdowns will impact the modern drug war?

Remarkable tale of how uncertain criminal laws and their enforcement can produce extraordinary punishment inequities

SCOTUS rules 5-4 to extend Fourth Amendment protections to cell-site records in Carpenter

SCOTUS rules 5-4 against finding Double Jeopardy Clause limits prosecutors over severed trials

Fourth Circuit affirms ruling that DC sniper Lee Malvo entitled to resentencing due to Miller and Montgomery

Split Michigan Supreme Court rejects Sixth Amendment challenge to state's new juve LWOP statute

Nevada now scheduled to conduct execution, its first in a dozen years, using an opioid lethal injection cocktail

Suggesting home confinement as an incarceration alternative to avoid family separation back home

Split Second Circuit panel reverses lengthy child porn sentence for second time; dissent notes "sentence is barbaric without being all that unusual"

"Whether the Bright-line Cut-off Rule and the Adversarial Expert Explanation of Adaptive Functioning Exacerbates Capital Juror Comprehension of the Intellectual Disability"