California Court of Appeal Issues Writ of Mandate Directing Superior Court to Hold Evidentiary Hearing Under State’s Racial Justice Act, Ruling Defendant Provided Sufficient Evidence to Establish Prima Facie Claim of Implicit Bias by San Diego Police by Sagi Schwartzberg The California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, granted a …

Drug Detection Dogs Are Unreliable and Reflect the Vicious Heritage of Their Slave-Hunting Dog and Police-Dog Predecessors by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS OFTEN deploy trained dogs to detect drugs, but how accurate are the canine sniffs? Since the dog cannot testify, the courts have simply accepted …

The Real Minority Report Predictive Policing Algorithms Reflect Racial Bias Present in Corrupted Historic Databases by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In Steven Spielberg’s science fiction movie, Minority Report, police armed with nebulously sourced predictions of people who are supposedly going to commit murder before they can actually do so. …

North Carolina Supreme Court: Superior Court Abused Discretion by Flatly Prohibiting Questions on Racial Bias During Voir Dire by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of North Carolina held that a superior court abused its discretion when it flatly prohibited the defense’s questions during voir dire regarding racial …

Staggering Injustice by Derek Gilna Experts Say Cross-Racial Eyewitness Identification Errors Are Widespread and Contribute to Thousands of Wrongful Convictions by Derek Gilna In a time where much of the American criminal justice system is justifiably under intense pressure to eliminate potential racial bias, there is at least one issue …

From Detroit: How Not to Use Facial Recognition in Policing by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso A June 24, 2020, article in The New York Times by Kashmir Hill recounts the wrongful imprisonment of a Detroit man due to misuse of facial-recognition software. In January 2020, Robert Julian-Borchak Williams was …

ACLU Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform, 2020 •• • . ' •• . : ACLU RESEARCH REPORT A Tale of Two Countries Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform ACLU RESEARCH REPORT A Tale of Two Countries Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of …

Race and Wrongful Convictions, National Registry of Exonerations, March 2017 RACE AND WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES Samuel R. Gross, Senior Editor, srgross@umich.edu Maurice Possley, Senior Researcher Klara Stephens, Research Fellow National Registry of Exonerations March 7, 2017 NATIONAL REGISTRY OF EXONERATIONS NEWKIRK CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY UNIVERSITY …