Daniel Medwed University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice d.medwed@neu.edu 617.373.6590 Expertise criminal justice, criminal law, wrongful convictions Daniel S. Medwed in the Press Karen Read found not guilty of second-degree murder, guilty of drunken driving in boyfriend’s death Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said it was a mercy or compromise verdict, in which jurors opt for acquittal on the most serious charges but convict on lesser offense when they have doubts about the case but want to hold the person accountable. Karen Read found not guilty of boyfriend’s murder in retrial At the retrial, both the prosecution and defense adopted a “less is more strategy,” moderating their approach based on what worked in the first trial, said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has followed both of Read’s trials. Both sides called fewer witnesses. Jurors are deliberating in Karen Read’s retrial. Here’s what to know. “It’s quite possible that they’re considering a ‘mercy verdict,’ or a split verdict,” said Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor who has followed Read’s trials. Karen Read Found Not Guilty of Murder in Boyfriend’s Death Outside Boston Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University who closely followed the case, said before the verdict that acquittal struck him as a sound result, given the many problems with the investigation and the evidence presented at the retrial. Karen Read Acquittal Exposes Flaws in Police Practices, Supporters and Critics Say Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminology at Northeastern University, said the trooper’s texts in the Read case, and the disturbing details in the Birchmore indictment, had brought renewed attention to persistent problems in policing. Mass Live Karen Read’s defense changed its strategy for retrial — and won Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, called it a “classic reasonable doubt defense.” Ex-Stoughton police officer charged with killing Sandra Birchmore did not father the baby she was carrying, DNA shows “If the charges relate to the relationship when she was under 16, the fact that she was or was not carrying his child [at the time of her death] would seem to be somewhat irrelevant, except it would indicate they had a continuing relationship,” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law at Northeastern University. Boston.com Neither side in the Karen Read trial called Michael Proctor to testify. Was it the right choice? Daniel Medwed, a criminal law professor at Northeastern University, suggested prosecutors may have felt Proctor would be somewhat hostile to the defense and knew that if Read’s lawyers called Proctor, they “would have the benefit of seeing what he said on direct and using cross-examination either to rehabilitate him or to try to show how […] A cop dead in the snow, a girlfriend on trial. Why Karen Read is a true-crime obsession Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University, said part of the fascination with Read and others like Casey Anthony or Amanda Knox comes from the relative rarity of a woman facing murder charges. Mass Live What makes jury selection in the Karen Read trial so hard? It’s not just publicity Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said the lawyers will need to look beyond just the questioning to determine if a juror is fit to serve on the Read case. Daniel S. 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Should other states follow suit?The Adult Survivors Act resulted in over 3,000 lawsuits from people for whom the statute of limitations has lapsed. How can Alec Baldwin still be facing charges for movie set shooting? Northeastern law experts explainThere are some exceptions to the Fifth Amendment which prevents people from being tried twice for the same crime in the same jurisdiction. Why wasn’t Donald Trump handcuffed? Did he get a mugshot?Tuesday’s dizzying panorama of Trump’s arrest and arraignment on more than two dozen felony charges tied to hush money payments featured no handcuffs and no mugshot. Northeastern legal experts explain why.
Karen Read found not guilty of second-degree murder, guilty of drunken driving in boyfriend’s death Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said it was a mercy or compromise verdict, in which jurors opt for acquittal on the most serious charges but convict on lesser offense when they have doubts about the case but want to hold the person accountable.
Karen Read found not guilty of boyfriend’s murder in retrial At the retrial, both the prosecution and defense adopted a “less is more strategy,” moderating their approach based on what worked in the first trial, said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has followed both of Read’s trials. Both sides called fewer witnesses.
Jurors are deliberating in Karen Read’s retrial. Here’s what to know. “It’s quite possible that they’re considering a ‘mercy verdict,’ or a split verdict,” said Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor who has followed Read’s trials.
Karen Read Found Not Guilty of Murder in Boyfriend’s Death Outside Boston Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University who closely followed the case, said before the verdict that acquittal struck him as a sound result, given the many problems with the investigation and the evidence presented at the retrial.
Karen Read Acquittal Exposes Flaws in Police Practices, Supporters and Critics Say Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminology at Northeastern University, said the trooper’s texts in the Read case, and the disturbing details in the Birchmore indictment, had brought renewed attention to persistent problems in policing.
Mass Live Karen Read’s defense changed its strategy for retrial — and won Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, called it a “classic reasonable doubt defense.”
Ex-Stoughton police officer charged with killing Sandra Birchmore did not father the baby she was carrying, DNA shows “If the charges relate to the relationship when she was under 16, the fact that she was or was not carrying his child [at the time of her death] would seem to be somewhat irrelevant, except it would indicate they had a continuing relationship,” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law at Northeastern University.
Boston.com Neither side in the Karen Read trial called Michael Proctor to testify. Was it the right choice? Daniel Medwed, a criminal law professor at Northeastern University, suggested prosecutors may have felt Proctor would be somewhat hostile to the defense and knew that if Read’s lawyers called Proctor, they “would have the benefit of seeing what he said on direct and using cross-examination either to rehabilitate him or to try to show how […]
A cop dead in the snow, a girlfriend on trial. Why Karen Read is a true-crime obsession Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University, said part of the fascination with Read and others like Casey Anthony or Amanda Knox comes from the relative rarity of a woman facing murder charges.
Mass Live What makes jury selection in the Karen Read trial so hard? It’s not just publicity Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said the lawyers will need to look beyond just the questioning to determine if a juror is fit to serve on the Read case.
