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How AI Tools Can Help Assess Verbal Eyewitness Statements 

February 27, 2024

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 

January 9, 2024

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.

Criminal Law & Justice, Research and Scholarship 

The Case for Sentinel Event Reviews 

July 6, 2023

Quattrone Center Executive Director John F. Hollway C’92, MAPP’18 explains how SERs can improve the criminal justice system.

 

Driving Systemic Change to Prevent Domestic Violence Fatalities 

June 6, 2023

The Quattrone Center and the City of San Francisco have released a report recommending policies and procedures to reduce domestic violence-related fatalities.

Criminal Law & Justice, Family Law & Child Advocacy, Research and Scholarship 

Ending Mass Incarceration 

April 26, 2023

At Slate, Seema Saifee, Quattrone Center Research Fellow, explores how incarcerated individuals have contributed to the conversation on reducing incarceration and crime.

Centers & Institutes, Criminal Law & Justice, Research and Scholarship, Social Justice, Equity, & Inclusion 

Leading the Process for Systemic Policing Change 

April 19, 2023

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.

Centers & Institutes, Criminal Law & Justice, Research and Scholarship 

When Innocence Is Not Enough 

April 6, 2023

Tom Dybdahl L’98 and Christina Swarns L’93 recently discussed prosecutorial misconduct, the Brady rule of evidence disclosure, and Dybdahl’s new book.

Centers & Institutes, Criminal Law & Justice 

When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule by Thomas L. Dybdahl L’98 

March 7, 2023

Dybdahl chronicles the evolution of the Brady rule from its unexpected birth to the legal challenges that left it defanged and ineffective.

 

Policing Marginalized Communities 

January 23, 2023

This past semester, Quattrone Center Fellow Anjelica Hendricks engaged students in the study of how policing intersects with race, gender, ability, and other intertwined socio-economic identities.

Criminal Law & Justice, Legal Culture & History 

Mandating Taped Interrogations 

January 18, 2023

“[A] focus on best practices to avoid undue coercion and false confessions would go a long way to improve the quality of justice in Pennsylvania,” writes the Quattrone Center’s Marissa Bluestine.

Centers & Institutes, Criminal Law & Justice 

Journalism for Justice 

January 17, 2023

Former Washington Post journalist Radley Balko is joining the Quattrone Center as a Journalist Fellow.

Centers & Institutes, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Justice, Cross-Disciplinary 

Videotaping Interrogations in Pennsylvania 

January 11, 2023

The Quattrone Center has released “Videotaping Interrogations in Pennsylvania,” the first study to review Pennsylvania interrogation practices.

Criminal Law & Justice, Research and Scholarship