Congratulations to our doctoral student, Aliya Birnbaum, for successfully matching for internship! She will be doing her internship at...

Dr. Zottoli has been appointed as a Co-Chair of the Plea Bargaining Institute's (PBI) Academic Working Group . The PBI is a...

Dr. Daftary-Kapur recently received a grant from the National Institute of Justice to examine the variations in “second look” sentencing...

Congratulations to our doctoral student Julia Stratton and Master's student Drew Melancon for their APLS Grant-In-Aid awards! Julia's...

Congratulations to our doctoral student's Ryan Schneider and Tristin Faust for successfully matching for internship! Ryan will be doing...

Our latest paper (in press) reports on survey data from 112 juvenile–lifers released in Philadelphia. We asked about their early life...

Congratulations to our doctoral student Lauren Grove for successfully matching for internship!!

Kimberly Echevarria, is a first year MA student, in the Legal Decision Making Lab and the Clinical Psychology program, Forensic...

Congratulations to lab member Brandon Shintani on being accepted to the very selective Yale Young Global Scholars Program (YYGS)! YYGS...

Conor Hogan and Jenn Bartlett have the distinction of being the first doc students from the MSU Legal Decisions Making lab to pass...

In light of the pandemic, some parole boards and prosecutor have released elderly inmates and those who have been convicted of low-level...

Conor Hogan, third year Ph.D. student in the Clinical Psychology program (forensic emphasis) successfully defended his master's thesis,...

Yesterday, SCOTUS held in Garza v. Idaho that when a defendant’s lawyer does not file appeal on instruction of his client, because there...

We are excited to announce a new research collaboration with the Philadelphia District Attorney's office. Projects in development ...

Our latest paper on guilty plea decisions of juveniles was published in Law and Human Behavior this month. We interviewed 64 youth and 56...

#WrongfulConviction #MSU

On August 20, NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill that establishes an independent commission to investigate allegations of...

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Recently the Undisclosed podcast did an episode on the obstacles to post conviction relief for individuals convicted by guilty plea....