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The question presented is whether it is ethical for a criminal defense lawyer to participate in a plea agreement that bars collateral attacks on convictions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 in the absence of an express exclusion for claims based on ineffective assistance of counsel.
A collection of articles on federal sentencing, prison, and post-conviction such as "Tips on Getting Your Client into the Best Prison and Released at the Earliest Possible Opportunity".
An article by The New York Review of Books on the subject of innocent people pleading guilty when prosecuted.
A PowerPoint presentation outlining the details of post-conviction relief in plea cases.
A PowerPoint presentation on post conviction storytelling and instances of proper utilization within a legal case.
A document on the psychology of recantation and strategies for dealing with various types of witnesses.
An article from Slate and The Fair Punishment Project on drug lab scandals and false convictions within the state of Massachusetts.
A paper by M. Chris Fabricant and Tucker Carrington critiquing forensic science disciplines' slow change from speculatory evidence to one of grounded scientific fact, citing several wrongful convictions due to erroneous testimony.
An article from Significance magazine on the statistical errors and flawed testimony regarding hair microscopy.
Full Title: Examining Forensic Pathology: Distinguishing Medicine from Myth Constructing and Deconstructing the Postmortem Interval: Suggestions for Post-Conviction Proceedings A paper from the Innocence Project that lists issues to consider in post-conviction proceedings when going over evidence and claims involving a victim's time of death.
Full Title: The use of technology in human expert domains: challenges and risks arising from the use of automated fingerprint identification systems in forensic science. An article from Law, Probability, and Risk published by Oxford University on potential risks that may arise from using automated fingerprint identification systems.
A paper on the flawed aspects of some analysis techniques within forensic science and how to improve them, citing human bias as a confound to these methods.
A research paper from the University at Buffalo on evaluation of the rarity of fingerprints determined through computational and statistical methods.
Full Title: "Cognitive Issues in Fingerprint Analysis: Inter- and Intra-Consistency and the Effect of a ‘Target’ Comparison". A research paper that details potential cognitive fallacies in fingerprint analysis and comparison.
A detailed paper with a survey of post-conviction new evidence statutes and a proposed model by Brooks Production.
