TAYLOR EVANS—The true rate of wrongful convictions is “not merely unknown but unknowable.” The National Registry of Exonerations estimates that anywhere between 2% and 10% of all convictions are erroneous. Given the number of people currently incarcerated, these percentages translate to between 46,000–230,000 people serving time for a crime they did not commit. Focusing solely on death row defendants, at least 4.1% are believed […]

ANDREW DE LA OSA—Ever since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Carpenter v. United States courts continually wrestle with the issue of emerging technology and the increased capabilities that it provides to police departments, often at the expense of the common citizen’s privacy. The Fourth Amendment analysis for whether police conduct constitutes a “search” under the constitution’s […]

COREY KRAFTSOW—A California jury recently acquitted Elon Musk and Tesla in a civil trial concerning tweets Musk posted in 2018. The billionaire Tesla founder and serial entrepreneur tweeted “funding secured,” implying that he had secured financing from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund to take Tesla private at a price of $420 per share. In other words, Musk hinted […]

CAITLIN MCNULTY—True crime has dominated the entertainment industry for the past decade, primarily through documentaries, docuseries, and podcasts diving deep into the details of some of the most infamous crimes to date. Last year, Netflix’s ten-episode series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story gained 496 million hours watched within two weeks and now reigns as the second-most popular Netflix […]

JEREMY CONNELL—First Amendment protection of speech has limits, but those limits are not always well-defined. The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments on Counterman v. Colorado, and the ruling may settle a question that currently divides both state and federal courts: What is necessary for speech to constitute a “true threat”? Counterman concerns a series of Facebook messages […]