Faculty Directory

Selected Works

• Books

  • Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison (Hachette/Basic Books, 2022).
  • Criminal Law: Problems, Statutes, and Cases (Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed., 2021) (co-author).
  • Criminal Procedure: Principles, Policies, and Perspectives (7^th edition, West Academic, 2020) (co-author).
  • Criminal Procedure, Investigating Crime (7^th edition, West Academic, 2020) (co-author).
  • Criminal Procedure, Prosecuting Crime, (7^th edition, West Academic, 2020) (co-author).
  • Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution: Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
  • Evidence, Cases and Materials (10^th edition, Foundation Press, 2017) (Weinstein, Abrams, Brewer and Medwed).
  • Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent (New York University Press, 2012).

• Selected Articles

  • ­“Secrets of Chambers: The Constitutional Right to Present a Defense at Middle Age,” Arizona Law Review (forthcoming).
  • “Not Just Mercy: The Untapped Potential of Clemency to Right Wrongful Convictions," Law Journal for Social Justice (forthcoming).
  • “Wrongful Conviction Writ Large: A Review of Valena Beety's Manifesting Justice,” The Wrongful Conviction Law Review (forthcoming).
  • “Post-Conviction Review on Trial: When Do Appellate Courts Correct for Prosecutorial Misconduct?,” 69 Crime & Delinquency 13 (2022) (co-author).
  • “Black Deaths Matter: The Race-of-Victim Effect and Capital Punishment,” 86 Brooklyn Law Review  957 (2021).
  • “Coaxing, Coaching and Coercing: Witness Preparation by Prosecutors Revisited,” 16 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 379 (2019)(symposium on prosecutorial ethics).
  • “The Good Fight: The Egocentric Bias, the Aversion to Cognitive Dissonance, and American Criminal Law,” 22 Journal of Law and Policy 135 (2013) (symposium on cognitive bias and advocacy skills).
  • “Closing the Door on Misconduct: Rethinking the Ethical Standards that Govern Summations in Criminal Trials,” 38 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 915 (2011) (symposium on criminal justice ethical standards).
  • “Brady’s Bunch of Flaws,” 67 Washington & Lee Law Review 1533 (2010) (symposium on comparative criminal law) 5.
  • “Emotionally Charged: The Prosecutorial Charging Decision and the Innocence Revolution,” 31 Cardozo Law Review 2187 (2010)(symposium on prosecutorial disclosure obligations).
  • “The Prosecutor as Minister of Justice: Preaching to the Unconverted from the Post-Conviction Pulpit,” 84 Washington Law Review 35 (2009) (symposium on prosecutorial ethics).
  • “Innocentrism,” 2008 University of Illinois Law Review 1549 (2008).
  • “The Innocent Prisoner’s Dilemma: Consequences of Failing to Admit Guilt at Parole Hearings,” 93 Iowa Law Review 491 (2008).
  • “California Dreaming? The Golden State’s Restless Approach to Newly Discovered Evidence of Innocence,” 40 U.C. Davis Law Review 1437 (2007).
  • “Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction: Theoretical Implications and Practical Solutions,” 51 Villanova Law Review 337 (2006).
  • “Up the River without a Procedure: Innocent Prisoners and Newly Discovered Non-DNA Evidence in State Courts,” 47 Arizona Law Review 655 (2005).
  • “The Zeal Deal: Prosecutorial Resistance to Post-Conviction Claims of Innocence,” 84 Boston University Law Review 125 (2004).
  • “Actual Innocents: Considerations in Selecting Cases for a New Innocence Project,” 81 Nebraska Law Review 1097 (2003).

• Selected Chapters

  • “Grand Finality: Post-Conviction Prosecutors and Capital Punishment,” in Final Judgments: The Death Penalty and American Law, ed. A. Sarat (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
  • “Talking About a Revolution: A Quarter Century of DNA Exonerations,” in Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution: Twenty Five Years of Freeing the Innocent, ed. D. Medwed (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
  • “In Denial: The Hazards of Maintaining Innoncence After Conviction,” in Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse, ed. R. Burnett (Oxford University Press, 2016).

• Commentary

  • “Appeals Court Orders Judge To Investigate Juror Bias in Boston Marathon Bomber’s Case,” The Boston Globe (March 21, 2024).
  • “Medwed on The Right to Present a Defense,” CrimProf Blog (February 23, 2024).
  • “Why Do Innocent People Go To, And Stay In, Prison?,”
    https://hls.harvard.edu/today/why-do-innocent-people-go-to-and-stay-in-prison/
  • “SJC Case Data Show Pandemic Effect, but Possibly Some Philosophical Choices, Too,” Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (February 2, 2024).
  • “How a 2016 Murder in Laurens County Will Shape Alex Murdaugh’s Attempt To Get a New Trial,” Post Courier (January 28, 2024).
  • “Tenure on Massachusetts’ Highest Court Plummets to All-Time Low,” Bloomberg Law (January 26, 2024).
  • “Intro to Exonerations: The College Kids Trying to Break a Houston Man Free,” Texas Monthly (January 22, 2024).
  • “Trump ‘Exonerated’ by Epstein Docs? Here’s What They Do (And Don’t) Say About the Former President,” PolitiFact (January 11, 2024).
  • “Daniel Medwed at the Ath: ‘Why The Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison’,” The Student Life (October 29, 2023).
  • “How Can Alec Baldwin Still Be Facing Charges for Movie Set Shooting? Northeastern Law Experts Explain,” Northeastern Global News (October 25, 2023).
  • “Dumped in Cellar Hole 50 Years Ago, Badly Burned Body Has Never Been Identified,” The Boston Globe (October 23, 2023).
  • “Experts Warn of Radicalization Pipeline as Sedona Wellness Communities, Anti-Government Groups Share Space,” Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting (September 12, 2023).
  • “The Modern Public Defender,” Goodreads (September 2023.
  • ““Serial” Podcast’s Adnan Syed Might Go Back to Prison Because of Toxic Maryland Politics,” The Intercept (August 19, 2023).
  • “Why Charles Manson Cult Member Leslie Van Houten Was Released From Prison 53 Years After Committing Murder,” Northeastern Global News (July 12, 2023).
  • “Supreme Court Decision Limits How Prisoners Can Challenge Their Convictions,” PBS Newshour (July 5, 2023).
  • “DeSantis Steps up Pace of Executions in Florida, Chasing Trump,” Florida Times-Sentinel (July 5, 2023).
  • “Atty Bias Eyed As New Path For Mass. Conviction Challenges,” Law360 (June 23, 2023).
  • “Patriots Cornerback Jack Jones ‘Could Face More Than 30 Years in Prison if Convicted and Sentenced Consecutively’ on Weapons,“ The Daily Mail  (June 20, 2023).
  • “Patriots Cornerback Jack Jones To Face Arraignment After Arrest on Gun Charges at Logan Airport,” The Boston Globe (June 19, 2023).
  • “Barred: Why The Innocent Cant’s Get Out of Prison by Daniel Medwed Part 1,” Pursuing Justice Podcast (June 26, 2023).
    “MLB Player Condemns Dodgers’ Decision to Honor Anti-Catholic Group; Team Announces Day for Christians,” The Catholic Reporter (May 30, 2023).
  • “‘The Makings of a Made-For-Tv Movie, Almost’: Legal Experts Weigh In on the Direction of the Karen Read Case,“ Boston.com (May 16, 2023).
  • “Harvard Grad Student Planning to Sue the MBTA Must Prove Negligence First, Legal Analyst Says,“  GBH News (May 16, 2023).
  • “Corporate Manslaughter and Worker’s Comp: What’s at Stake After Newburyport Chemical Plant Worker’s Death,“ GBH News (May 9, 2023).
  • “Bring Earnest Jackson Home: Advocating for Equitable Justice in the Criminal Justice System,“ Omaha Daily Record (May 8, 2023).
  • “Can Florida Legally Expand the Death Penalty To Convicted Child Rapists? ,“ Northeastern Global News (May 3, 2023).
    “Why Estate Planning Isn’t Only for the Wealthy,“ GBH News (May 2, 2023).
  • “The Legal History of National Security Charges, From Espionage to Sedition to Whistleblowers,“ GBH News (April 18, 2023).
  • “Boston Marathon Marks 10 Years Since Tragic Bombings,“ The World (April 14, 2023).
  • “Wrongly Convicted Face Uphill Climb, Professor Tells University of Nebraska Law Students,“ Nebraska News (April 10, 2023).
  • “Authority on Wrongful Convictions Says U.S. Judicial System Is Weighted Against Claims of Innocence,“ Nebraska Examiner (April 11, 2023).
  • “Who Gets To Be a Juror? Panel Selected for Lori Vallow Daybell’s ‘Once-in-A-decade’ Trial,“ Idaho Statesman (April 11, 2023).
    “Experts Say Trump Prosecution Far From Sure Thing,“ The Boston Globe (April 4, 2023).
  • “What To Expect Today at Trump’s Arraignment,“ GBH News (April 4, 2023).
  • “A Trap for the Unwary’: The Power and Paradox of Parole Boards,“ WBUR (April 5, 2023).
  • “Court Documents Reveal ‘A Lot of Possible Legal Theories’ in Manhattan DA’s Case Against Trump,“ GBH News (April 2023).
  • “Trump’s Tongue-wagging Could Threaten Showdown With Judge,“ CBC News (April 5, 2023).
  • “105: Why it is so Difficult to Get the Innocent out of Prison,” Public Defenseless Podcast (March 30, 2023).
  • “Can People Injured While Skiing Sue the Ski Resorts? ,“ GBH News (March 28, 2023).
  • “Everyday Injustice Episode 193: Daniel Medwed and the Racism of the Death Penalty,“ The Davis Vanguard’s Every Day Injustice Podcast (March 27, 2023).
  • “What Protections Do Undocumented Workers Have Against Workplace Abuses? ,“ GBH News (March 21, 2023).
  • “‘No Hispanics’ or ‘Grandmotherly Types’: NY Prosecutors Face Complaints Over Jury Bias,“ Gothamist (March 21, 2023).
  • “Four Queens Prosecutors Who Discriminated Against Minority Jurors Are Still on the Job,“ The City NYC (March 21, 2023).
  • “Why Do We Have Jury Duty? And How Reliable Are Juries, Really,“ GBH News (March 14, 2023).
    “When Lawyers Sleep on the Job, Defendants Face an Uphill Climb to Justice,“ GBH News (March 7, 2023).
  • “Access Denied: Authorities Refuse to Release Records for Maine School Shooter Hoax Calls,“ Press Herald (March 4, 2023).
  • “Newest Bone Chilling Details About the Mom Accused of Killing Her 3 Kids,“ Newsful (March 1, 2023).
  • “When Crypto Goes to Court: Can the Legal System Keep Up?,“ GBH News (February 28, 2023).
  • “Mass. High Court Rules Infidelity Can No Longer Be Used as Excuse To Reduce Murder Charge,“ Boston.com (February 22, 2023).
  • “20 Years After the Station Nightclub Fire, a Look at What’s Changed,“ GBH News (February 21, 2023).
  • “Daniel Medwed Speaks at Thursday Morning Talks,“ (February 16, 2023).
  • “Should 18-Year-olds Be Imprisoned for Life?,“ GBH News (February 14, 2023).
  • “‘Clear’ Conflict for Prosecutor-lawmaker in ‘Rust’ Case,“ Law360 (February 10, 2023).
  • “A Troubled Mother Faces Murder Charges in Her Young Children’s Deaths,” The New York Times (February 8, 2023).
  • “The ‘Fraught’ Ethical Questions Behind Bill To Allow Prisoners To Give Organs for Reduced Sentences,” GBH News (February 7, 2023).
  • “Watch: Case Against Brian Walshe for Murder of His Wife, Ana, Returns to Court,“ Boston.com (February 9. 2023).
  • “Where Could Lindsay Clancy’s Case Go From Here? Here’s What Legal Experts Say,” Boston.com (February 10. 2023).
  • “What Would Happen if Lindsay Clancy Claims Insanity in Duxbury Case?,” GBH News (January 31, 2023).
  • “Missing Woman Massachusetts,” Gloucester Times (January 29, 2023).
  • “Celeb Prosecutor’s Own Kidnapping Is Now a True Crime Fiasco,” The Daily Beast (January 29, 2023).
  • “Internet Evidence Key, but Not Enough in No-body Murder Case,” Associated Press (January 27, 2023).
  • “Ana Walshe Case: Can Brian Walshe Be Convicted Without a Body?,” Boston.com (January 19. 2023).
  • “Legal Experts Say a Suspect Can Be Charged With Murder Without a Body but the Case Is Tough To Prosecute,” The Boston Globe (January 19. 2023).
  • “No Body Crime: Can a Person Be Charged With Murder if Police Don’t Find a Body?,” GBH News (January 17, 2023).
  • “Best Court Case Podcasts,” (2023) https://player.fm/podcasts/court-case
  • “Legal Experts Say a Suspect Can Be Charged With Murder Without a Body but the Case Is Tough To Prosecute,” The Washington Post (January 19, 2023).

  • “The U.S. Prison System Doesn't Value True Justice,” TIME Magazine (November 29, 2022).
  • “Defenseless: Daniel Medwed on Incarcerated Innocents,” Sea Change Radio (October 18, 2022).
  • “Prisons Lock Up Innocent People With Impunity w/ Daniel Medwed,” Majority Report Radio (October 17, 2022).
  • “Don’t Look Back: Why the Innocent Sometimes Stay in Prison,” The Crime Report (October 19, 2022).
  • “Kari Lake Has a Point About Jan. 6 Rioters Being Locked Up for This Long,” The Daily Beast (October 18, 2022).
  • “Daniel S. Medwed on Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison,” Matt Lewis Podcast (October 10, 2022).
  • “How Many Innocent People Is the Plea Bargain Sending to Prison?,” Big Think (October 4, 2022).
  • “The Thing About Pam, Adam Levine Sexting, ‘Barred’ and Much More,” WGN Radio (October 3, 2022).
  • “He Was Innocent. He Served Eight Years Anyway,” The Daily Beast (October 2, 2022).
  • “Prison Guards Beat Him and Shattered His Face. Eight Years Later, This Formerly Incarcerated Man Glimpses Justice,” The Boston Globe (October 1, 2022).
  • Podcast: “Daniel Medwed - University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University; Author of BARRED: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison,”  The Karen Hunter Show (September 29, 2022).
  • “Why is it so Hard to Free Wrongfully Convicted People From Prison?,” GBH News (September 27, 2022).
  • “Daniel Medwed Has Thoughts About Why It’s Nearly Impossible To Overturn Wrongful Convictions,” Rural Intelligence (September 26, 2022).
  • “Nonfiction Views: This Week's New Nonfiction,” Daily Kos (September 20, 2022).
  • “Technicalities Keep People in Prison, Says Northeastern Professor in New Book,” News@Northeastern (September 19, 2022).
  • “Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison,” Every Day Injustice Podcast (September 19, 2022).
  • “Guilty Until Further Notice / Daniel Medwed,” This is Hell Podcast (September 19, 2022).
  • “Best Fall Books: Haberman on Trump, Proulx on Peat, and Als’s Prince,” Bloomberg (September 15, 2022).
  • “Chicago Humanities Festival Announces Fall Headliners, Including Patti Smith, Jessica Lange and Chelsea Manning,” Chicago Tribune (September 13, 2022).
  • “Northeastern Professor Scores Legal Win in Holding Prosecutors Accountable,” News@Northeastern (August 8, 2022).
  • “What Charges Might Trump Face for Trying to Overturn 2020 Election?,” U.S. News & World Report (June 30, 2022).
  • “Professor Medwed and Team of Professors Prevail on Publishing Prosecutor Misconduct Cases,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (June 30, 2022).
  • “Explainer: What Charges Could Trump Face Over Efforts To Overturn the 2020 Election?,” Reuters (June 23, 2022).
  • “Does a Fair Way to Decide Who Gets The Death Penalty Actually Exist?,” Slate (February 22, 2022).
  • “Biden Wants to End the Death Penalty. So Why Is His Justice Department Trying To Have Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Put to Death?,” The Boston Globe (June 16, 2021).
  • “Hasty Police Commissioner Appointment, Followed by More Mayoral Missteps, Now Threatens to Taint Walsh’s Legacy,” The Boston Globe (May 26, 2021).
  • “Mass. ‘A Far Cry From Becoming Amsterdam,’ Says GBH Legal Analyst On Marijuana Industry,”GBH News(May 25, 2021).
  • “Are Vaccine Passports Legal? We Asked Our Legal Analyst,” GBH News May 18, 2021).
  • “The Dennis White-Kim Janey Legal Standoff Brings With It a Host of Questions,” The Boston Globe (May 17, 2021).
  • “Decision In Jasiel Correia Trial Could Take Days, Says Legal Analyst,” GBH News (May 11, 2021).
  • “How Joe Biden's Presidency Could Influence The Boston Marathon Bombing Case,”  GBH News (January 19, 2021).
  • “Boston Marathon Bomber Appeal Is Early Biden Test on Death Penalty,” Bloomberg (January 15, 2021).
  • “Medwed: Trump Cabinet Resignations Make Invoking The 25th Amendment Less Likely,” GBH News (January 8, 2021).
  • “Almost a Decade After Annie Dookhan and the State Drug Lab Scandal, the Fallout Is Growing,” The Boston Globe (January 1, 2021).
  • “Who Else Could President Trump Parton? Joe Exotic? Himself?,” Northeastern News (December 04, 2020).
  • “Appeals Court Won't Hold Hearing in Steven Avery Case, but It May Not Matter in Ultimate Ruling,” Post Cresent (November 23, 2020).
  • “Police Weren’t Indicted for the Killing of Breonna Taylor. What Happened?,” News@Northeastern News (September 24, 2020).
  • “Fact Check: Jacob Blake Faces Charges in May Assault Case, but He Has No Gun Convictions,” USA Today (August 28, 2020).
  • “FBI’s Tally of How Often Police Use Force Has Plenty of Holes,” The Boston Globe (August 13, 2020).
  • “What Would a New Tsarnaev Trial Look Like, Five Years Later?,” The Boston Globe (August 04, 2020).
  • “Federal Appeals Court Vacates Tsarnaev Death Sentence, Orders New Penalty-Phase Trial,” The Boston Globe (July 31, 2020).
  • “Banning Police Chokeholds As A Way To Keep Officers More Accountable,” GBH News (June 09, 2020).
  • “Examining The Updated Charges Against The Officers In George Floyd Killing,” GBH News (June 04, 2020).
  • “Intellectual Property Law In The Race To A Coronavirus Vaccine,” GBH News (May 26, 2020).
  • “What Are The Legal Implications Of Gov. Baker's Emergency Coronavirus Orders?,” GBH News (March 25, 2020).
  • “What Exactly is Self Quarantine?,” The Boston Globe (March 06, 2020).
  • “SJC Case Could Set State Precedent For Handling Of Police Pretextual Stops, Allegations Of Racial Profiling,” GBH News (March 03, 2020).
  • “Innocence Detectives: The Exonerated Men Who Now Work to Free Others,” The Christian Science Monitor (February 14, 2020).
  • “Black Deaths Matter: The Race-of-Victim Effect and Capital Punishment,” Death Penalty Information Center (February 10, 2020).
  • “Michelle Carter: 5 Facts About Woman Out Of Prison Early After Convincing BF To Commit Suicide,” Hollywood Life (January 23, 2020).
  • “What Happens After The Impeachment Process,” GBH News (December 17, 2019).
  • “What's Next in the Texting Suicide Case,” GBH News (November 26, 2019).
  • “A Drug Dealer who Gave a College Student Opioids to End Her Life was Sentenced to 24 Years,” The Washington Post (November 18, 2019).
  • “Brendan Dassey's Legal Team Enlists Support of Nearly 250 Experts in Bid for Clemency,” Post Crescent (October 24, 2019).
  • “Repealing Life Without the Possibility of Parole,” The Framingham Tab (September 22, 2019).
  • “‘Underage Women’: The Oxymoron That Hides Jeffrey Epstein’s Crime,” The Houston Chronicle (July 17, 2019).
  • “Hallmarks Of Innocence: The Scope Of Wrongful Convictions,” GBH News (June 11, 2019).
  • “Deep(er) In The Weeds With Daniel,” GBH News (June 04, 2019).
  • “The Pros And Cons Of A Plea Bargain,” GBH News (May 21, 2019).
  • “Attorney General William Barr Cleared President Trump of Obstructing Justice. Should He Have?,” News@Northeastern (April 18, 2019).
  • “What To Look For In The Mueller Report,” GBH News (April 18, 2019).
  • “Breaking Down The Legal Issues In The College Admissions Scandal,” GBH News (April 16, 2019).
  • “Pursuing Impeachment of President Trump: The Pros and Cons,” GBH News (January 04, 2019).
  • “How Kim Kardashian, the Koch Brothers, and Jared Kushner Moved the Needle on Criminal Justice Reform,” News@Northeastern (December 20, 2018).
  • “Mass. Police Can Be Secretly Recorded While On Duty In Public, Judge Rules,” GBH News (December 10, 2018).
  • “Remembering President Bush: The Enduring Impact Of The Americans With Disabilities Act,” GBH News (December 25, 2018).
  • “‘Serial' Case, Which Gained Global Attention, Back in Court,” News@Northeastern (November 29, 2018).
  • “Trump Confronted With ‘Unprecedented’ Legal Issues After Cohen’s ‘Earth-Shattering’ Plea, Lawyers Say,” The Boston Globe (August 22, 2018).
  • “‘Fraud Upon the Court’ — and the People of Massachusetts,” Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (August 2, 2018).
  • “State's Highest Court Issues Major Ruling on Voting Ahead of Election Season,” GBH's Morning Edition (July 11, 2018).
  • “Deep In The Weeds With Daniel Part 3: Local Governments' Resistance To The Recreational Marijuana Industry,” GBH's Morning Edition (June 21, 2018).
  • “Deep in The Weeds With Daniel Part 2: Legal Cannabis Still Carries Threat of Criminal Charges,” GBH's Morning Edition (June 12, 2018).
  • “Deep In The Weeds With Daniel Part I: Retail Pot Shops In Massachusetts,” GBH's Morning Edition (June 5, 2018).
  • “State Supreme Judicial Court Considers Another Chapter in Drug Lab Scandal,” GBH News (May 8, 2018).
  • “The Future of Stun Gun Regulation in Massachusetts," GBH's Legal Ease (April 26, 2018).
  • “Explaining The 'Red Flag' Bill That's Pending On Beacon Hill,” GBH's Legal Ease (April 17, 2018).
  • “Court Defends Officers' Use Of Traffic Stops To Investigate Unrelated Crimes,” GBH News (February 20, 2018).
  • “Boston May Seek To Sue Pharmaceutical Companies For Opioid Crisis,” GBH’s Legal Ease (January 30, 2018).
  • “Could Massachusetts Become The First Sanctuary State For Marijuana?,” GBH News (January 23, 2018).
  • “Amending The Valor Act And Rethinking Bail Practices In Massachusetts,” GBH News (January 16, 2018).
  • “Federal Law Could Complicate The Path To Legalized Marijuana In Massachusetts,” GBH News (January 9, 2018).
  • “And Justice For None: Inside Biggest Law Enforcement Scandal in Massachusetts History,” Rolling Stone Magazine (January 3, 2018).
  • “Voting Rights Controversies In Massachusetts,” GBH’s Legal Ease (November 7, 2017).
  • “George Papadopoulos’ Cooperation Likely Just the First of Many Dominoes to Fall,” News@Northeastern (November 1, 2017).
  • “The State Senate’s Criminal Justice Reform Bill And What It Means,” GBH’s Legal Ease (October 31, 2017).
  • “First Charges in Russia Investigation ‘A Turning Point’,” News@Northeastern (October 31, 2017).
  • “Scandal in the BPD Evidence Room and at the State Office of Alcohol Testing,” GBH’s Legal Ease (October 17, 2017).
  • “Ralph Gants and the Decline of the Felony Murder Doctrine in Massachusetts,”  GBH’s Legal Ease (October 6, 2017).
  • “The Wrongful Conviction Of Victor Rosario,” GBH News (September 13, 2017).
  • “Dear Boston Police Department: Why Not Ban Choke Holds Once And For All?,” GBH’s Legal Ease, WGBH (July 17, 2017).
  • “Is Chief Justice John Roberts Showing Signs Of Moderation?,” GBH’s Legal Ease (June 29, 2017).
  • “After Russia Imbroglio, Should Jeff Sessions Lose His Law License?,” GBH’s Legal Ease, WGBH (June 14, 2017).
  • “Q&A with Daniel Medwed, Editor of Textbook on DNA Exonerations,” Innocence Project (May 25, 2017).
  • “Race and the Ballot Box: What’s At Stake In The Lowell Voting Rights Case,”GBH’s Legal Ease, WGBH (May 23, 2017).
  • “LISTEN: What's Ahead For The State's Highest Court This Month,” GBH’s Legal Ease (May 2, 2017).
  • “Criminal Justice: The DNA Revolution and the Evolution of Innocence,” Cambridge Core Blog (April 25, 2017).
  • “The Impact Of Aaron Hernandez’s Death On His Pending Appeal In The Odin Lloyd Murder Case,” GBH’s Legal Ease (April 19, 2017).
  • “Annie Dookhan, Aaron Hernandez And The Complicated Vision of American Justice,”GBH’s Legal Ease, WGBH (April 18, 2017).
  • “On the Brink of Justice: New Trial Granted in the Fred Weichel Case,” GBH’s Legal Ease, WGBH (April 17, 2017).
  • “Trump’s Ouster of Federal Prosecutors: What It Means for Massachusetts,” GBH’s Legal Ease (March 14, 2017).
  • “How Does President Trump's Executive Order Alter Our Immigration Travel Policy?,” GBH News (January 31, 2017).
  • “Holding Firm: The Supreme Judicial Court In The Age Of Trump,” GBH News (December 25, 2017).
  • “A 6-Point Plan For Resolving the 24,000 Tainted 'Dookhan' Drug Cases,” Legal Ease, WGBH (November 16, 2016).
  • “The Shooting Of Terrence Coleman And The Case For Police Body Cameras Revisited,”GBH’s Legal Ease, WGBH (November 7, 2016).
  • “A Short-Handed U.S. Supreme Court Considers Juror Prejudice,”GBH’s Legal Ease (October 3, 2016).
  • “Here We Go Again? The Braintree Police Evidence Room Scandal,”Legal Ease, WGBH (September 22, 2016).
  • “Would Olympian Ryan Lochte Be In Trouble In Mass.?,” Legal Ease, WGBH (August 19, 2016).
  • “Memo To Marty Walsh: Why Prosecutors Love To Charge Defendants With Conspiracy,” Legal Ease, WGBH (August 8, 2016).
  • “How Can You Help? Implore Your Local Police Department To Use Body Cameras,” Legal Ease, WGBH (July 11, 2016).
  • “What a Retrial for Adnan Syed of 'Serial' Means for His Case and Others,” news@Northeastern (July 5, 2016).
  • “Dookhan: How To Repair Mass Injustice,” Legal Ease, WGBH (June 30, 2016)
  • “We Are Punishing Women For Their Abortions,” WGBH News (May 23, 2016) (co-authored).
  • “Beyond Annie Dookhan and Sean Ellis: Corruption and Criminal Justice,” Legal Ease, WGBH (May 2, 2016).
  • “Murder, She Texted? Michelle Carter, Manslaughter and Assisted Suicide,” Legal Ease, WGBH (April 26, 2016).
  • “Prosecutors, Politics, and Reform,” WGBH News (April 5, 2016).
  • “Local Legal Expert Talks SCOTUS Nominee's Chances,” WGBH News (March 17, 2016).
  • “3Qs: What’s next in the partisan fight to replace Scalia?,” news@Northeastern (February 22, 2016).
  • “Making Justice in Shelby County,” Memphis Flyer (February 18, 2016).
  • “Judge George O'Toole Releases Names of Jurors in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Trial,” The Daily Free Press (February 17, 2016).
  • “Local Legal Expert Talks SCOTUS after Scalia,” WGBH's Morning Edition (February 15, 2016).
  • “Assessing Antonin Scalia's Legacy,” WGBH News (February 14, 2016).
  • “Step 1: Police Body Cameras; Step 2: Adopt State-Wide Guidelines,” Legal Ease, WGBH (January 11, 2016).
  • “The March To Criminal Justice Reform: Will Massachusetts Step Up?,”Legal Ease, WGBH (December 23, 2015).
  • “The Annie Dookhan Mess: The Lingering Responsibility Of Prosecutors To Clean It Up,” Legal Ease, WGBH (December 3, 2015).
  • “MA Court Cases Examine Youthful Offender Status And A Request To Retry Tsarnaev," Morning Edition, WGBH (December 2, 2015).
  • “The Troubling Trial Of Phillip Chism: Should Teenagers Accused of Murder Be Tried As Adults?,” Legal Ease, WGBH (November 18, 2015).
  • “State Of Mind: The Criminal Justice Process And Mental Health In Massachusetts,” Legal Ease, WGBH (November 13, 2015).
  • “What's Wrong With Solitary Confinement,”Legal Ease, WGBH (October 14, 2015).
  • “U.S. Supreme Court May Hold The Future Of Affirmative Action In Its Hands,”Legal Ease, WGBH (October 5, 2015).
  • “Freeing the Innocent: DNA Testing’s First 25 Years,”The Crime Report (October 1, 2015).
  • “Eyewitness Testimony Is Unreliable: The SJC Tries To Reform Its Use,”Legal Ease, WGBH (September 28, 2015).
  • “Should Boston Breathe Easy? The Use Of Police Force In Roslindale,”Legal Ease, WGBH (September 4, 2015).
  • “Is teen who urged boyfriend to commit suicide responsible for his death?,” AirTalk, KPCC (September 2, 2015).
  • "Why Boston Should Adopt Police Body Cameras,”Legal Ease, WGBH (August 10, 2015).
  • “Whitey Bulger's Appeal: Justice May Be Blind, But She's Not Stupid,”Legal Ease, WGBH (July 31, 2015).
  • “Northeastern University School of Law Professor Daniel Medwed to Serve as Legal Analyst for WGBH News,”WGBH News and Media Relations (July 1, 2015).
  • “The Supreme Court: Why Idiosyncrasy And Judicial Philosophy Matter,”Legal Ease, WGBH (June 31, 2015).
  • “Trying Teens As Adults; Courageous Moms' Turning-In Their Sons; Lingering Availability Of Guns,”Morning Edition, WGBH (June 16, 2015).
  • “Thinking Of Breaking Out Of Prison? Read This First, Legal Ease, WGBH (June 13, 2015).
  • “Tsarnaev And The Long Legal Road Ahead, Cognoscenti, WBUR (May 18, 2015).
  • “Tsarnaev trial shows the value of process, The Boston Globe (May 16, 2015).
  • “Tsarnaev Sentenced to Death in Boston Bombing Trial,”NBC News (May 15, 2015).
  • 'Dead Man Walking' Nun Testifies on Boston Bomber's Behalf,”NBC News (May 11, 2015).
  • “Parents of Youngest Boston Marathon Victim Oppose Death Penalty for Tsarnaev,”The New York Times (April 17, 2015).
  • “Question in Boston Bombing Trial: For Tsarnaev to Testify or Not,”The New York Times (March 29, 2015).
  • “How to make eyewitness evidence more reliable,"The Boston Globe (February 27, 2015).
  • “Law Professor Named to Mass. SJC Eyewitness Committee,” news@Northeastern (February 13, 2015).
  • “Lawyers Hunt Too-Eager Tsarnaev Jurors,”The Boston Globe (January 26, 2015).
  • "Liberal City Weighs the Ultimate Penalty Before Boston Marathon Trial,”The Sydney Morning Herald (January 17, 2015).
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