Legal Truth

About this Episode

With evidence and criminal procedure scholar Lisa Kern Griffin, we discuss the role of narrative, storytelling, and probability in assessing guilt and innocence. Also, feedback on coffee, citation, librarians, and argument.

This show’s links:

• Lisa Kern Griffin’s faculty profile and writing
• Sonja West, First Amendment Neighbors, citing Joe Miller, Christian Turner, and Sonja West, Oral Argument 1: Send Joe to Prison at 46:53, available at http://oralargument.org/1
• Bunny’s coffee-roasting links: the Nesco Professional 800-watt Roaster, Green Coffee Buying Club, and information from Sweet Maria’s; Listener Zachary’s links: the Fresh Roast Plus 8 and White Mountain Coffee
• AP, Police Urge Google to Turn Fff ‘Stalking’ Feature on Mobile App for Drivers and Waze
• Video of Mike Tyson’s ten fastest knockouts
• Video of Lindsey Graham asking AG-nominee Loretta Lynch about the legal connection between gay marriage and polygamy
• Oral Argument 40: The Split Has Occurred, discussing Judge Sutton’s gay marriage opinion
• Oral Argument 44: Serial
• Oral Argument 45: Sacrifice
• Lisa Kern Griffin, Narrative, Truth, and Trial
• About the murder of Julie Jensen
• Jensen v. Schwochert (granting Jensen’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus on Confrontation Clause grounds); see also the denial of the state’s motion to alter the habeas judgment (note that this case is before the Seventh Circuit, which has had argument but not yet ruled)
• Christian Turner, Bet Your Life Before You Impose Death
• Old Chief v. United States
• Mark Spottswood, Emotional Fact-finding