Professor Perry Moriearty with two of her students, Kaitlyn Falk, 2L, and Matthew DiTullio ’20, represented Myon Burrell before the state Board of Pardons through the Law School's Child Advocacy…
On Dec. 15, the Minnesota Board of Pardons commuted the sentence of Myon Burrell, client of Professor Perry Moriearty and the Child Advocacy and Juvenile Justice Clinic. Burrell, a juvenile…
Professor Perry Moriearty was quoted in a Washington Post article regarding the inequity in legal punishment of young Black males in Minnesota. “Black juveniles in Minnesota are eight times more likely to…
On March 4, 2020, Professor Perry Moriearty testifed before the Minnesota House of Representatives Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Committee in support of HF 3976, which would establish a bi-partisan…
Professor Perry Moriearty is featured as an expert on juvenile justice and the “superpredator era” in the third episode of a new podcast by Northwestern Law School Professors Steve Drizin and Laura Nirider called…
On January 29, 2020, Professor Perry Moriearty testified at a Joint Informational Hearing of the Minnesota House of Representatives Judiciary and Public Safety Committees entitled, “Race and the Law: How We Can…
Professor Perry Moriearty co-authored a counterpoint to the StarTribune's recent editorial on juvenile life without parole. Among other things, the counterpoint argues that the…
Professor Perry Moriearty was quoted in an International Business Times article entitled "Juveniles Serving Life Sentences: Henry Montgomery Case Asks Can The U.S. Supreme Court Retroactively Apply Decisions…
—Professor Perry Moriearty was quoted in a Star Tribune article entitled "Two Minneapolis Federal Judges Issue Opposite Decisions in Two Teens' Life Sentences." The article discusses one of the juvenile-…
—Professor Perry Moriearty was interviewed for and quoted in a Pioneer Press article discussing the Minnesota Supreme Court's recent decision in Minnesota v. Roman Nose. In the decision, the Court…
—Professor Perry Moriearty was interviewed for and quoted in a Star Tribune article on the status of legislation to revise Minnesota's first-degree murder sentencing statute to comply with the U.S. Supreme…
