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Criminal Law & Procedure

This guide has helpful links and resources for students and practitioners of criminal law.

Blogs

Scotus Blog is a law blog written by lawyers, law professors, and law students About the Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes abbreviated "SCOTUS"). It tracks cases before the Supreme Court from the certiorari stage through the merits stage. It reports on major merits cases before the court at least three times: before argument, after argument, and after the decision. It gives additional coverage to particularly significant petitions and emergency applications. This blog sometimes publishes information on the Court's actions before either the Court or any news source. It covers every case argued before the Court and maintains an archive of the briefing and other documents in each case.

SCOTUS Blog includes a webpage for Capital Cases, which references all pending criminal cases where the defendant has been charged with a capital crime.


Other Blogs

Hein Online

HeinOnline is a database that includes scholarly journals, periodicals, and law review articles. Specific sections are devoted to criminal law topics. This database is useful when writing law review or other scholarly articles. Access for JU College of Law only.

Criminal Justice Journals - HeinOnline

Criminal Justice and Criminology - HeinOnline

Innocence Projects

Innocence Projects are nonprofit litigation organizations dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals, often through DNA testing and other scientific advancements. They research many issues which commonly occur in criminal cases, including eyewitness identifications, applications of forensic science, false confessions, and coerced pleas.

News

 Westlaw and Lexis databases are available to JU College of Law only.