Articles Tagged with habeas corpus

The Expensive, Arbitrary and Inefficient State of the Death Penalty in California February 11, 2011 Updated: February 11, 2011 by Guest Blogger

Before the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice (CCFAJ), then California Chief Justice Ronald George testified that “California’s death penalty system is dysfunctional.” A review of year-end statistics certainly confirms the former Chief Justice’s conclusion. While the death penalty appears to be waning across the country, California remains…

False Confessions and Coercive Police Interrogations November 17, 2010 Updated: September 20, 2019 by Ken Chan

Last week, I viewed the FRONTLINE program The Confessions, a documentary about the Norfolk Four. For me, the video really reinforced the importance of the Bill of Rights and its role in protecting the innocent. The Fifth Amendment states that "No person...shall be compelled in any criminal case to be…