Criminal Law Society

Steve Mills has been a reporter for the Chicago Tribune since 1994.  He has written about the death penalty, miscarriages of justice, and other problems in the criminal justice system.

Steve Mills has been a reporter for the Chicago Tribune since 1994.  He has written about the death penalty, miscarriages of justice, and other problems in the criminal justice system.

Randy Steidl was an average, hard-working guy from a small farming community in southern Illinois. When questioned about the 1986 murders of newlyweds Dyke and Karen Rhoads, Randy assumed the police were questioning many people in the area. He did not know either of the victims but cooperated with the police and gave a corroborated alibi for the night of the murders. It was a sho

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Patrick Fitzgerald will speak to interested Criminal Law students on May 10th, 12:15pm, Room II.

David Hoffman, Janis Roberts, and Tom Durkin will discuss honest services fraud and deliver competing professional perspectives on the prosecution and defense of such cases.

Dan Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School.  In addition to risk perception, his areas of research include criminal law and evidence. Prior to coming to Yale in 1999, Professor Kahan was on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School.  He also served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S.