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James Doyle is veteran litigator and writer, whose cases have ranged from death row appeals and murder trials to will contests and path-breaking civil liberties cases. He is the co-author (with Elizabeth Loftus) of Eye Witness Testimony: Civil and Criminal, the Bible for lawyers in eyewitness cases. His articles of cultural criticism have appeared in Reconstruction, The Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, and elsewhere. His scholarly articles on evidence, race and capital punishment have appeared in numerous law reviews. He has taught on the faculties of
Georgetown
Law
Center
, Boston University School of Law and the Roger Williams University School of Law. He lectures nationally to lawyers and general audiences, and he has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, and Court-TV. He was a member of the Planning Panel for the National Institute of Justice's pioneering Technical Working Group on Eyewitness Evidence. He lives in
Brookline
,
Massachusetts
, and practices with the
Boston
firm of Carney & Bassil. He currently serves as the Director of The Center For Modern Forensic Practice, an innovative effort by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice to integrate cutting edge forensic science findings into criminal justice practice.
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A Short Course in Crime Scene Analysis for Trial Lawyers
in Criminal Cases
September 17-18, 2009
Cohosted with the Crime Scene Academy, and sponsored in conjunction with
The Legal Aid Society of New York,
The Bronx Defenders,
The New York Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
and
The Northwestern University School of Law.
This course is being held at
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Forensic Biology Building
421 East 26th Street
New York, NY
National Public Radio's "On Point"
The Center will be convening scientists and criminal justice practitioners of a wide-ranging discussion of the practical impact of the National Academy of Science's recent analysis of the state of forensice science and its future. The issue is discussed by the Center Director and others on National Public Radio.
Center Wins Grant for Ground-Breaking Arson Screening Program
The Center has won a grant of $248,000 from the JEHT Foundation for an innovative Arson Screening Project, designed to assess the damage done by generations of “bad science” arson convictions. The Arson Screening Project will be the first program to address systematically the roles played by improved science in revealing mistaken convictions in a non-DNA context.
Dr. Nicholas Petraco
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