The next chapter… will be written at a new URL.

As we achieve more intelligent machines… are there things about criminal justice that we ought to refuse to allow anyone to learn?

Earl Butz and company didn’t do much for me, making Moo a campus novel for which I’ll recommend a (gentle) skip.

“It’s not necessity... and also not very funny?”

It is actually possible to exercise in front of the classroom (and look forward to it).

The potential for substituting in truly intelligent machines makes me wonder… why do we ask juries the questions we do?

It’s no joyous romp through the absurdities of academia, but it’s definitely worthy of a read.

Not only are pardons an important lever of mercy in our current, woefully non-role-reversible systems of criminal justice, but, given the human tendency to anger, they might be a critical mercy lever ...

“Doubtless there are natural laws, but … reason having been corrupted, it corrupted everything.”

The potential for substituting in truly intelligent machines makes me wonder… are we doing this wrong?

Adriaen van der Donck, our very first prosecutor, is not forgotten.

The Ohio Supreme Court reasonably holds a person retains no reasonable expectation of privacy in a single location datum conveyed to a third party.

Iowa proves a legal realist’s dream (and privacy failure) in narrowing its state constitutional search protection.

A guest post by Ian Stephens regarding the counterproductive denial or revocation of licensing for criminal history, and how to do better.

Intelligence (human or machine) weeps at the ignorance of “banning the use of artificial intelligence in legal proceedings.”

Why the lengthy issue spotter?

Unanimously better on the law enforcement proviso and supremacy is good improvement, even with work remaining on ‘discretionary function.’

Some exciting news from Russell Gold, who's chairing AALS's Crim Pro Section: --- Hi Everyone, I hope that summer is treating you well. I'm excited to report that the digital teaching resources reposi...

How to deliver bad news… Big Fish style.

A divided New Jersey Superior Court appellate panel does good work, but is (understandably) too fixated on the single suspicion standard of probable cause.

Kudos on unanimity regarding straightforward Fourth Amendment law… but boo to an entirely superfluous concurrence.

Silence can be inscrutable… but what about when it’s not?

If you find academia absurd, these four novels are for you.

Eight concurrences and no majority is not getting the job done.

On April 11, the U.S. Sentencing Commission adopted proposed amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. The amendments will become effective November 1, 2025, unless Congress passes a statute ch...

I appreciate the Fifth Circuit attention—and stand by that work—but a categorical ban is not reasonable.

We need practice, so any non-harmful Amendment will do.

When class discussion goes AI-rogue.

For my first substantive post I thought I would sound off on an issue that has been causing a lot of consternation down here in SoCal, which is the unintended consequences of the Trump DOJ's re-priori...

Achieving balance is a lifelong quest that few achieve… whether in the academy or outside it.

In a number of my posts, I will be addressing Trump’s extraordinary Executive Order 14164, titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety,” signed on Jan. 20, 2025 [“the EO”], as wel...

I want to thank Steve Henderson for inviting me to blog once more on CrimProfBlog. According to my CV, which I have no reason to doubt, I last was a contributing editor here in 2009. For my first blog...

Do bar journals outside of Oklahoma similarly engage in viewpoint discrimination?

Remember when you were just starting out as a new criminal law / procedure professor and you had no idea what you were doing and would have relished the chance to review what other, more experienced p...

I want to take this opportunity to invite you to consider submissions to the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (OSJCL), in particular here to our Commentary section. As many of you know, we publish h...

What will Oklahoma do to improve, now that these ugly truths are ‘proclaimed from the rooftops’?

“Literally, the slaughter of a man.”

Has the change in administration (and all that goes with) affected your classroom?

If the government has agreed to a plea deal in which the possibility of the death penalty has been dropped, may a higher-ranking official lawfully renege on that deal? Even if law permits the rescissi...

Why can’t the prosecutor simply follow the law?

Some of the books I like to use in teaching.

Some of the films I like to use in teaching.