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—Professor Barry Feld was quoted extensively in a Star Tribune article on the impact of recent Supreme Court decisions on sentencing juveniles. The Court prohibited states from imposing a mandatory life…
—Professor Barry Feld was interviewed on the National Public Radio Dallas affiliate KERA Radio program "Think" about his new book Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation Room (NYU Press 2012…
—Professor Barry Feld has recently published two books. New York University Press published Feld's Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation. In this richly detailed empirical study, Feld…
—Professor Barry Feld was quoted in the Pioneer Press explaining the criminal procedural details of how a defendant can plead guilty without actually admitting she is guilty. Feld explained how an Alford…
—The United States Supreme Court in Graham v. Florida,--- S.Ct. ----, 2010 WL 1946731 (U.S.), held that a state may not impose a sentence of life without parole (LWOP) for a nonhomicide crime committed by a…
—A dissent by Judge Richard Posner in Welch v. United States,2010 WL 1755062, cited and summarized arguments by Professor Barry Feld,“The Constitutional Tension Between Apprendi and McKeiver: Sentence…
—Within the past six months, three state courts have cited Feld's research on various aspects of juvenile justice administration: In re Andrew,--- N.E.2d ----, 2008 WL 4367288 (Ohio,2008) (juvenile’s…
—Prof. Barry Feld was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal Law Blog about the criminal procedure issues raised by the recent arrest and guilty plea of Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho.
—Professor Barry Feld criticized a legislative proposal to lower from fourteen to thirteen the age at which youths could be transferred to criminal court for prosecution as an adult. He characterized as “…
—Two court cases addressing the use of prior juvenile convictions to enhance adult sentences (People v Nguyen and People v. Massoni) have cited Barry Feld’s article, “The Constitutional Tension…
—Professor Barry Feld was quoted in the November 30, 2006, issue of Rolling Stone magazine -- "Can Nate Ybanez Be Forgiven?" Rolling Stone did a very extensive article on juveniles tried and convicted as adults…
—The Minnesota Supreme Court, in State of Minnesota v. Richard McFee, cited three of Feld's articles to allow the use of juvenile adjudications to calculate an adult's criminal history score.