Significant Public Defender Shortage
The Quattrone Center’s Prof. Paul Heaton has found that statewide, public defenders are experiencing a substantial personnel shortfall.
Report of the Philadelphia Event Review Team on the Wrongful Conviction of Marshall Hale
A new report provides recommended criminal justice system reforms based on a Sentinel Event Review (SER) of the wrongful conviction and 33-year incarceration of Hale.
How AI Tools Can Help Assess Verbal Eyewitness Statements
Quattrone Center Academic Director Paul Heaton’s new paper explores how he and his co-authors trained a large language model (LLM) to parse eyewitness confidence statements.
‘False Positive’ Field Drug Tests Lead to Wrongful Convictions
A pathbreaking Quattrone Center report shows that the use of presumptive field tests in drug arrests is one of largest known contributing factors to wrongful arrests and convictions.
Driving Systemic Change to Prevent Domestic Violence Fatalities
The Quattrone Center and the City of San Francisco have released a report recommending policies and procedures to reduce domestic violence-related fatalities.
Ending Mass Incarceration
At Slate, Seema Saifee, Quattrone Center Research Fellow, explores how incarcerated individuals have contributed to the conversation on reducing incarceration and crime.
Leading the Process for Systemic Policing Change
The Quattrone Center has released of the final set of recommendations from a Sentinel Event Review (SER) of incidents during protests following the murder of George Floyd.
Videotaping Interrogations in Pennsylvania
The Quattrone Center has released “Videotaping Interrogations in Pennsylvania,” the first study to review Pennsylvania interrogation practices.
Quattrone Center Research Fellow Alumnus Charles Eric Hintz published in Seton Hall Law Review: “The Plain Error of Cause and Prejudice”
Recent scholarship has largely ignored the 1982 Supreme Court decisions of United States v. Frady and Engle v. Isaac, that rejected plain error’s applicability to procedural default in federal habeas corpus proceedings—i.e., to claims that should have been, but were not, timely presented at a pre-federal habeas stage. This Article presents the argument that it must now be rethought—especially as we mark the fortieth anniversary of these decisions this year.
Decarceration’s Inside Partners
This Article examines a hidden phenomenon in criminal punishment.
Texas Bail Reform Reduced Jail Time and Crime, New Study Says
Ending cash payments for most low-level offenses is working for Greater Houston, research shows.
Sentinel Event Review of Police Response to 2020 Protests in Seattle
The Wave 2 report continues the work of the Sentinel Event Review (SER) Panel, a group of community members and officers of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) who are conducting an in-depth analysis of the protests that occurred in Seattle in the summer of 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.