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14 Feb 2025, 5:01 am by Brandon Garrett
[How can government agencies better safeguard procedural due process rights?] As Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter put it: "The history of American freedom is, in no small measure, the history of procedure." The scale of threats to due process, however, has greatly expanded. And so have the opportunities to correct uses of wholly error-prone systems by government, in ways that harm our liberty and property rights. In Minnesota, a recent federal lawsuit alleges that a private insurer… [read post]
11 Feb 2025, 5:01 am by Brandon Garrett
Sir William Blackstone famously said that it is "better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer." The maxim expressed by that English jurist was perhaps no more popular in 1765 than it is today. In a jibe clearly directed at Blackstone and others of a similar mind, English jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham made light of writers call it better to save "several guilty men, than to condemn a single innocent man," and others who, "to make the maxim more… [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 8:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor and expert on wrongful convictions, has watched [read post]
12 Nov 2015, 1:28 pm by Robert Hambrick
those 257 trials with false evidence 32 were death-penalty cases.University of Virginia law professor Brandon [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 9:42 am by Amanda Frost
In his recently published book, Convicting the Innocent, Professor Brandon Garrett examines the first [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 10:50 am
  Here are excerpts from the NYT piece:  Brandon L. [read post]
25 May 2015, 11:22 am by Elim
Garrett, Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations (Cambridge: The Belknap Press [read post]