Criminal Law
Feature Story
Duke Law faculty, alumni, and students secure release, new trial, for Armstrong
LaMonte Armstrong, a client of the Duke Law Wrongful Convictions Clinic who had been convicted of first-degree murder in 1995, had his conviction overturned based on evidence of his innocence developed by students. The case, presented by Theresa Newman ’88, co-director of the clinic, and David Pishko ’77, was the clinic’s first of two cases in two months resulting in the release of a wrongfully convicted person.
News Highlights
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Kaufman discusses the lack of criminal cases against Wall Street leaders involved in bad mortgage salesVisiting Professor of the Practice Ted Kaufman represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate in 2009 and 2010, then chaired the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program until its completion in April 2011. In this Frontline documentary he addresses the lack of criminal prosecutions of executives who ran Wall Street firms while the subprime mortgage scandal morphed into a global financial crisis.
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Academics and practitioners gather to explore decision making in criminal justiceDuke Law School hosted a working conference on decision making in the criminal justice process, an event designed to spark dialogue and research that could help reduce incidents of wrongful convictions.
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Buell comments on feds banning BP from new gov't contractsProfessor Samuel Buell speculates that the U.S. government worked with BP on the timing of the new federal contracts suspension before agreeing to the criminal plea deal.
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Newman: Wrongly convicted inmates freed but get little helpProf. Theresa Newman, co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic and associate director of the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility, says "at a minimum, the state and the federal government should help innocent people make the transition out."
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Silliman sworn in as an appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Military Commission ReviewProfessor Scott Silliman, director emeritus of the Duke Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as a civilan judge for the Court of Military Commission Review.
Faculty
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Featured FacultyJohn S. Bradway Professor of Law, Co-director, Wrongful Convictions Clinic, Co-director, Appellate Litigation ClinicProfessor Coleman is a leading expert on criminal law, legal ethics, negotiation and mediation, capital punishment, and wrongful convictions. Before joining Duke Law he served as chief counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and as a deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Education.
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Russell M. Robinson II Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology
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Duke Law's Program in Public Law presents its annual Supreme Court Review (Criminal). Professors Neil Siegel, Sam Buell, Jim Coleman, Nita Farahany, and Lisa Griffin review the most significant decisions of the past term of the U.S. Supreme Court, focusing on criminal cases.