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E-mail: bgarrett@virginia.edu

Subject Area(s): Civil procedure, civil rights, complex litigation, constitutional law, criminal procedure, federal courts, policing, remedies, torts, wrongful conviction, class actions, equal protection

All Courses: Post-conviction Remedies, Civil Procedure

Current Course(s): Seminar In Ethical Values (Yr), Seminar In Ethical Values (Yr), Civil Procedure (J), Federal Criminal Law, Class Actions And Complex Litigation

In the Media:

• "Clinic Defends Convict" (The Cavalier Daily, 02/08/2012)
• "Let the DNA Fit the Crime" (The New York Review of Books, 02/06/2012)
• "Williamsburg DNA Case Raises Question of Effort" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 02/06/2012)
• "U.S. Corporate Prosecutions Go Global" (Author) (The FCPA Blog, 01/24/2012)
• "The AM Roundup: GPS Case, Historic Nominations in NJ, More" (The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog, 01/24/2012)
• "Foreign Firms Plead Guilty More, Fined More than US Firms, Study Finds" (Corporate Crime Reporter, 01/23/2012)
• "Editorial: Supreme Court Needs To Know Seeing Is Not Believing" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 01/19/2012)
• "U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Nashua Conviction Despite Debate Over Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony" (Nashua Telegraph, 01/14/2012)
• "Eye of the Beholder" (The American Prospect, 01/13/2012)
• "Court Ruling Reignites Debate Over Sharing Evidence" (NPR, 01/12/2012)
• "Supreme Court Rejects Special Review of Eyewitness Testimony" (Reuters, 01/11/2012)
• "See No Evil" (Slate, 01/11/2012)
• "Eyewitness Evidence Needs No Special Cautions, Court Says" (The New York Times, 01/11/2012)
• "Supreme Court Backs Eyewitness Identification with 8-1 Ruling" (CNN, 01/11/2012)
• "'Speeding Train' Interrogations Can Fuel False Confessions" (USA Today, 12/26/2011)
• "The Problems With Eyewitness Testimony" (The New Republic, 12/16/2011)
• "No Country for Innocent Men" (Mother Jones, 12/12/2011)
• "The Prosecution’s Case Against DNA" (The New York Times, 11/25/2011)
• “When DNA Evidence Suggests ‘Innocent,’ Some Prosecutors Cling to ‘Maybe’” (The New York Times, 11/16/2011)
• "Reexamining Eyewitness Testimony" (WHYY, 11/14/2011)
• "See No Evil: Eyewitness Testimony May Be Unreliable, But The Supreme Court Doesn't Want To Be The One To Say So" (Slate, 11/02/2011)
• "Justices Examine Eyewitness Identification" (CNN, 11/02/2011)
• "Supreme Court Reluctant to Create More Barriers to Witness Testimony" (The Washington Post, 11/02/2011)
• "High Court's Witness-ID Case Resonates in Philly Region" (Philadelphia Inquirer, 11/01/2011)
• "Unreliable Eyewitnesses Put Defendants on Death Row" (UPI, 10/16/2011)
• "DNA Reversals Fuel Efforts to Improve Eyewitness IDs" (Washington Examiner, 10/16/2011)
• "Eyewitness Identification Testimony Under Scrutiny" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , 10/02/2011)
• "Troy Davis Execution Fuels Eyewitness ID Debate" (The Associated Press, 09/27/2011)
• "False Confessions to Police the Topic of State Study" (South Florida Sun Sentinel, 09/22/2011)
• "Journalists: How You Can Localize the Troy Davis Story" (The Huffington Post, 09/22/2011)
• "Books for Understanding the Execution of Troy Davis" (Harvard University Press Blog, 09/22/2011)
• "The Evolving Science of Eyewitnesses" (The Kojo Nnamdi Show, 09/22/2011)
• "Did Georgia Execute an Innocent Man" (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA, 09/22/2011)
• "False Confessions to Police the Topic of State Study" (Orlando Sentinel, 09/22/2011)
• "Eyes on an Execution: The Troy Davis Case Shows How Wrong Eyewitness Evidence Can Be" (Author) (Slate, 09/20/2011)
• "A Killer Issue" (Slate, 09/15/2011)
• "Charlottesville Right Now: 9-12-11" (1070 WINA Newsradio, 09/12/2011)
• "The Pulse: Philadelphia D.A. Defends City's Reliance on Eyewitnesses" (Philadelphia Inquirer, 09/09/2011)
• "How Can Courts Trust Eyewitnesses? Procedures That Defy Science" (The New York Times, 08/31/2011)
• "'Convicting the Innocent & Robo War in Gaza" (The A-Infos Radio Project, 08/31/2011)