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

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

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

A guilty plea, by itself, does not bar a federal criminal defendant from challenging the constitutionality of the statute of conviction...

LEGAL UPDATE: IGNORANCE OF THE LAW CAN NO LONGER BE A DEFENSE FOR RESEARCHERS Tina M.Zottoli, Ph.D. & Vanessa A. Edkins, Ph.D. Issue...