Jessica Roth

Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Professor of Law; Co-Director, Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law

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Informant Witnesses and the Risk of Wrongful Convictions

53 American Criminal Law Review 737 (2016), Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 491
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 15 Jul 2016
Jessica Roth
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Can a Good Person be a Good Prosecutor in 2018?

Fordham Law Review Online, Vol. 87 (2018), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper 3257914
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2019
Bruce A. Green, Abbe Smith, Angela J. Davis, Vida Johnson, David Patton, Rebecca Roiphe, Jessica Roth and Ellen Yaroshefsky
Fordham University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, American University - Washington College of Law, Georgetown Law, Federal Defenders of New York, New York Law School, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Hofstra University - Maurice A. Deane School of Law
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prosecutor, criminal justice, ethics, prosecution, criminal, Sessions, Krasner

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The 'New' District Court Activism in Criminal Justice Reform

NYU Annual Survey of American Law, Forthcoming, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 532
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 17 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2018
Jessica Roth
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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criminal law reform, federal district court judges, judicial activism, collateral consequences of conviction, mass incarceration, alternatives to incarceration, judicial role, judicial ethics, judicial norms, prosecutorial accountability, prosecutorial discretion, criminal discovery reform

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Rehaif v. United States: Once Again, A Gun Case Makes Surprising Law

32 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 23 (2019), Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 588
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 18 Oct 2019
Jessica Roth
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Rehaif; Section 922(g); felon-in-possession of firearm; mens rea; Model Penal Code; statutory interpretation; scienter; collateral question of law

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Why Criminal Defendants Cooperate: The Defense Attorney's Perspective

117 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1351 (2023), Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 698
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 17 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2023
Jessica Roth, Anna D. Vaynman and Steven D. Penrod
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, John Jay College - CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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The Anomaly of Entrapment

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 4, 2014, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 440
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Oct 2014
Jessica Roth
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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entrapment, exclusionary rule

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The Culture of Misdemeanor Courts

Hofstra Law Review, Forthcoming, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 531
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Jan 2018
Jessica Roth
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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misdemeanors, criminal court, judges, criminal justice reform, procedural justice, court culture, organizational culture, court innovation

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The Institutions of Innocence Review: A Comparative Sociological Perspective

Rutgers Law Review, Vol. 70, 2018, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 591
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 Nov 2019
Jessica Roth
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Innocence Commission, Innocence Consciousness, Innocence Revolution, Innocence Movement, Wrongful Convictions, Exonerations, Criminal Case Review Commission, Criminal Conviction Review Group, Conviction Integrity Unit, Conviction Review Unit, Institutional Isomorphism, Institutional Change

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The Divisibility of Crime

64 Duke Law Journal Online (February 2015) pp. 95-119, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 450
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Mar 2015
Jessica Roth
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, double jeopardy, Armed Career Criminal Act, ACCA, Descamps v. United States

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Prosecutorial Declination Statements

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 110, No. 3, 2020, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 610
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 15 May 2020
Jessica Roth
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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prosecutor, declination statements

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Alternative Elements

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 59, 2011
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 May 2020
Jessica Roth
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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alternative elements, Apprendi, Schad, trial by jury, criminal justice

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Jack Weinstein: Reimagining the Role of the District Court Judge

33 FED. SENT’G REP. 163 (2021), Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 644
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 20 Apr 2021
Jessica Roth
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Judge Jack Weinstein, judicial activism, judicial role, judicial ethics, courts’ supervisory authority, criminal sentencing reform