Daniel Medwed

Karen Read Found Not Guilty of Murder in Boyfriend’s Death Outside Boston

Professor Daniel Medwed @danielmedwed.bsky.social shares his perspective on Karen Read’s acquittal in @nytimes.com: “At bottom, trials are about putting the government’s evidence to the test. Norfolk prosecutors simply failed the test.”
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Watch: Full closing arguments in Karen Read murder trial Lawyers in the second murder trial of Karen Read have deliver their closing arguments after weeks of testimony.

Professor Daniel Medwed @danielmedwed.bsky.social provides expert legal analysis on WCVB Channel 5 as the Karen Read trial reaches its final phase. 🎥 Watch the full segment here:
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Way to go David!

Honoring Excellence: Haile, Roberts and Medwed Named 2025 Teachers of the Year - School of Law - Northeastern Law faculty members Andrew Haile, Melanie Roberts and Daniel Medwed are the 2025 recipients of the school’s Teacher of the Year award.

Congratulations to Professors Andrew Haile, Melanie Roberts and Daniel Medwed @danielmedwed.bsky.social, recipients of Northeastern Law’s 2025 Teacher of the Year award! #NUSLPride
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Thanks David!

Professor Aliza Hochman Bloom will present her work on “Examining the Exclusionary Rule in Revocation Proceedings” this morning as a panelist at the 2025 Law of the Police Conference, hosted by University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law. #NUSLPride

Shout out to Northeastern Law Professors Elettra Bietti and Aliza Hochman Bloom, and all who are presenting at the 2025 Privacy Law Scholars Conference this week at University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law! #NUSLPride #PLSC2025 @clicatnusl.bsky.social @law.ucla.edu
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So proud of our eldest daughter. I have loved being a dance dad!

Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed @danielmedwed.bsky.social joined WGN Radio’s Legal Face Off to discuss the latest in the retrial of Karen Read. @wgnradio.bsky.social
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Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped. Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah.

But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

The killing of an autistic teen highlights potential police violence that people with disabilities face Victor Perez’s death and others like it have prompted calls for police to undergo mandatory autism training.

Another case of police violence against people with disabilities www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Woman’s Case Spotlights Missouri’s Resistance to Innocence Claims Even after a judge declared her innocent and ordered her freed, the Missouri attorney general tried to send her back.

A consistent theme in Missouri of resistance to innocence claims www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/03/m...

Did I Really Do That? | Hidden Brain Media Have you ever been falsely accused of something? This week, why we sometimes act against our own self-interest — even when the stakes are at their highest.

We are asking MA to pass legislation that prevents police from lying to people they are interrogating and to record interrogations. Take a listen to this episode about false confessions and, if you are in MA, please ask your legislators to co-sponsor H1847 / S1136.
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How major law firms are responding to Trump’s attacks Law firms are torn on how to handle the new Trump administration as the president targets some of their own.

I am so proud of my former student Rachel Cohen (Harvard Law ‘22) for taking a stand against this attack on the legal profession. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

The redeem team Collectively, they spent 155 years in prison. Now they counsel other people facing their own long sentences. A conversation with five "peer advocates" at the New Orleans public defender's office.

Brilliant program in New Orleans public defender office open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

Fifth Circuit Vacates Texas Woman’s Conviction After 27 Years on Death Row The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed the conviction of Brittany Holberg.

Brittany Holberg was sentenced to death in 1998 after Texas prosecutors failed to disclose that their key witness at trial was a paid informant. This case's display of prosecutorial misconduct serves as a stark reminder of enduring problems in the death penalty.

Mar. 13, 2020 | Louisville Police Kill Breonna Taylor During Nighttime No-Knock Raid Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 2020, Louisville police officers shot and killed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor during a no-knock raid in the middle of the night.

‘I don’t want to die for something I didn’t do’: The day Gov. Ivey spared Rocky Myers Robin "Rocky" Myers shares what happened when he learned the news that he wouldn't be executed by the state of Alabama for a crime he's long said he did not commit.

"‘I don’t want to die for something I didn’t do’: The day Alabama’s governor spared Rocky Myers": www.al.com/news/2025/03...

Professor Sharmila Murthy will speak at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law Center for Law and Health's Spring Virtual Grand Rounds on March 25. Her talk will examine legal barriers to water affordability & explore policy reforms to improve access. #NUSLPride mckinneylaw.iu.edu/events/curre...

"Suspicion by Association" explores four troubling policing contexts in which individuals become the subject of criminal suspicion based on the company they keep. It's forthcoming in Arizona Law Review, and I welcome all feedback. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In Massachusetts, detectives are allowed to lie in interrogations. A new bill seeks to change that. - The Boston Globe A pair of state legislators are introducing a bill to ban deception in police interrogations – a practice that, though controversial, has generally been allowed by courts.

Massachusetts has the opportunity to address police lies during interrogations & prevent false confessions. If you live in MA, ask your state legislator (malegislature.gov/Search/FindM...) to co-sponsor HD.3010/SD.1443, Acts Preventing False Confessions.
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In Massachusetts, detectives are allowed to lie in interrogations. A new bill seeks to change that. - The Boston Globe A pair of state legislators are introducing a bill to ban deception in police interrogations – a practice that, though controversial, has generally been allowed by courts.

Massachusetts should be the next state to ban deception in police interrogations www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/09/m...

Jerry Herrington, wrongfully convicted as a 16-year-old, exonerated after 29 years of wrongful imprisonment News for Springfield and Sangamon County

"Jerry Herrington, wrongfully convicted as a 16-year-old, exonerated after 29 years of wrongful imprisonment": springfieldherald.news/jerry-herrin...

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Suspect in Insurance C.E.O. Killing Creates Website as Support Floods In Luigi Mangione faced a hearing on Friday as supporters planned a rally outside a Manhattan courthouse. Some Americans have found a hero in the man accused of vigilante murder.

The outpouring of support is not necessarily based on questions about the investigation or about his potential guilt,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells @nytimes.com. “It’s an outpouring of support for a form of vigilante justice.” @danielmedwed.bsky.social

Federal Judge Bruce Selya, widely respected R.I. jurist known for his vocabulary, dies at 90 - The Boston Globe US Senator Jack Reed described the judge as “a legal legend” and “a man of great wisdom, integrity, modesty, wit, and high ethical standards.”

Take a moment to read about my beloved Judge.

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A sisterhood of nuns is quietly emerging on Texas death row Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a particular Catholic order.

"When I started this, didn’t have a strong objection to the death penalty... But in looking closely at each of these cases I see very troubling signs that make me think that the moral authority to impose an extreme penalty like this is just not available."

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Brandon Garrett: How to Build a Fairer Jury Professor Brandon Garrett’s research challenges long-held assumptions on jury attitudes, suggests need for reform

Even though the legal system is premised on the theory that it is better for 10 guilty people to go free than 1 innocent person be convicted, potential jurors overwhelmingly feel that it is equally harmful to have a “wrongful conviction” as a “false acquittal.”
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