Associates Becoming Criminal Defendants in Fatal Overdoses
In Pennsylvania and across the United States, the legal response to the opioid epidemic has taken an increasingly aggressive turn. While public health initiatives aim to provide treatment and harm reduction, the judicial system has simultaneously ramped up the use of “drug-induced homicide” statutes to hold individuals criminally accountable for fatal overdoses. In...Read More
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Changes To Stop Wrong Eyewitness Identifications
The reliability of eyewitness testimony has been a subject of intense scientific scrutiny for decades. While juries and the general public often perceive eyewitness accounts as “gold-standard” evidence, decades of cognitive science and the sobering reality of DNA exonerations have proven otherwise. The human memory is not a recording device; it is a reconstructive process that can...Read More
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