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For Hamlet, to be or not to be guilty — that is the question
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If jurors in staged performances can’t consistently come to the same result — what does that say about real life?
Commentary
What we know about mistaken IDs in sexual assault cases
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Victims of sexual attack can easily make mistakes in trying to identify the stranger who committed the assault. That has nothing to do with the identification by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
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Progress slow in prison reform; politics seems the reason
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The corrections department offers no answer on whether any inmates have benefited from the new state law that encourages early release for prisoners who qualify. Politics appears to be blocking an answer.
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Problems of Prisoner Review Board go beyond voting records, attorney writes
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The author, an attorney active in prison reform, writes, “The only thing worse than the way parole works in Illinois is to have no parole.”
Commentary
Northwestern University sells out
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Rob Warden details the circumstances of Alstory Simon’s repeated confessions to murder and concludes: Northwestern University disgraced itself by settling Simon’s lawsuit against the school.
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Remembering an icon, and longing to make America great again
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George Leighton was a legal giant, appointed to the federal district court with bipartisan support. But could he even have been confirmed today?
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The silver lining in Rauner’s death penalty cloud
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While Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposal to restore the death penalty is a terrible idea for Illinois, the silver lining is that the proposal would be a step in the right direction for 31 states that still employ the practice.
Commentary
An American Epidemic: Crimes of Wrongful Liberty
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Tens of thousands of individuals have been victimized by perpetrators who would have been locked up had the criminal justice system worked properly, the authors’ research shows. The problem is not just the wrongful conviction, but also the wrongful liberty of the culprit.
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Past bar group evaluator: Judicial hopefuls get thorough review before rated
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Jonathan Lubin, past chairman of the evaluation committee for the Decalogue Society, offers a commentary describing the arduous process that groups go through to be fair and accurate in their assessments of each judicial candidate.
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Commentary: Illinois Supreme Court fills the big job vacancy that few noticed
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The Illinois Supreme Court has filled a key state post: The head appellate defender for indigents. It was a job opening that attracted little notice or attention; James Chadd, a deputy defender, has won the post.