Three clinical faculty members at the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Frank J. Remington Center, and one former colleague, have published articles in the Wisconsin Law Review symposium issue on claims of innocence (Volume 2006, no. 2).
Keith Findley and Michael Scott have written on "The Multiple Dimensions of Tunnel Vision in Criminal Cases" (2006 Wis. L. Rev. 291). The article describes the cognitive phenomenon of tunnel vision; demonstrates how tunnel vision is manifested in police investigative tactics, prosecutorial policies, rules of evidence at the trial level, and appellate standards of review; and suggests reforms in all of these areas. It is accessible electronically on the Social Science Research Network at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=911240 .
Mary Prosser has written "Reforming Criminal Discovery: Why Old Objections Must Yield to New Realities" (2006 Wis. L. Rev. 479), describing how the lack of timely discovery available to the defense in criminal cases can lead to unreliable results, including conviction of the innocent; and proposing reforms for discovery rules. Accessible electronically: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=908952 .
Former Remington Center professor Kate Kruse has written "Instituting Innocence Reform: Wisconsin's New Governance Experiment" (2006 Wis. L. Rev. 646), in which she uses Wisconsin as a case study of "democratic experimentalism" or "new governance," in that legislation and judicial decisions, based upon exoneration cases, have provided incentives and pressures for new practices on the part of police agencies throughout the state.
In addition, an article on the Remington Center itself, by Center professors John Pray and Byron Lichstein, has been published this year: "The Evolution Through Experience of Criminal Clinics: The Criminal Appeals Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School's Remington Center," 75 Miss. L. Rev. 795 (2006).
Submitted by on September 26, 2006
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