LAW4 765 - Post-Conviction Remedies

This course first covers remedies available to challenge criminal convictions, including federal habeas corpus. Second, we will examine systemic causes of faulty convictions such as: unreliable eye witness identifications, faulty forensic science, inadequate defense counsel, fabrication of evidence, suppression of evidence, and false and coerced confessions. Advances in police practices, social science, forensic science, and DNA technology will be discussed, including through presentations by visiting experts. We will also examine efforts to reform criminal appeals and our criminal justice system, through legislation, auditing and establishing innocence commissions, as well as civil wrongful conviction suits

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Criminal Investigation or Criminal Adjudication recommended, but not required.

Credits: 3