October 18/Cleveland: DNA Exonerations: How to Reform the Criminal Justice System to Avoid Convicting the Innocent #MCLE

Jeffrey Rosen

One of the challenges facing the criminal justice system is how to address and prevent the conviction of innocent persons.  The availability of DNA testing has allowed us to identify individuals who have been wrongly convicted, and to identify factors that have contributed to those wrongful convictions, including faulty eyewitness identifications and confessions.  Professor Rosen will discuss how we change the criminal justice system to prevent wrongful convictions in the first place.
Title:
Criminal Justice Forum: DNA Exonerations: How to Reform the Criminal Justice System to Avoid Convicting the Innocent
When/Where:
Thu, 10/18/2012
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Moot Court Room
1801 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Speaker:
Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at The George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. He is a board member of the Mid Atlantic Innocence Project.  His most recent book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America. He also is the author of The Most Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and The Unwanted Gaze. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. 
By:
Cleveland-Marshall School of Law
Credit:
1 hour pending
More:
https://www.law.csuohio.edu/newsevents/events/2012101817001562