Daniel Medwed, a law and criminal justice professor at Northeastern University, told Business Insider on Thursday that it was unlikely that Carter would be sentenced to 20 years in prison due to her young age at the time of the crime and her history of mental illness.

Daniel Medwed, WGBH legal analyst and a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University, discusses the legal implications of the conviction.

The prosecution will likely ask for a long sentence — as much as 20 years in prison; the defense will ask for leniency. That’s according to WGBH Legal Analyst and Northeastern professor Daniel Medwed.

Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University, said aggravating factors in favor of a stiff sentence include Carter’s “level of blameworthiness — her truly despicable conduct — and the concept of deterrence, namely the need to construct a sentence that sends a message that this behavior will not go unpunished […]

“I would be shocked if she got the maximum sentence,” Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University School of Law, told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday. Medwed said that he “strongly believed” Moniz would sentence her to prison, because during trial the judge “could barely conceal his disdain for her when […]

Economists have been sounding the alarm about this trend for a while now. John Kwoka, an economist at Northeastern University, has literally written the book on the follies of the modern age of antitrust. In a new report, he shows how much more complacent the government has gotten toward oligopolies. The government still doesn’t tend […]

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said he would be surprised if Carter receives the maximum sentence of 20 years. But he expects Moniz will reach some kind of a compromise or middle ground that would include some prison time.

Waiting for enough users to report a particular story may take too long. By the time two fact-checking organizations research and debunk a story — even if it’s the next day — “it may be too late and the damage is done,” said David Lazer, a professor at Northeastern University who has done extensive research […]

Sean Gallagher, the executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education & Talent Strategy at Northeastern University, says the university approach to bootcamp has a unique leg-up to its for-profit industry counterparts. But that doesn’t make them immune to the same fate. “Universities are more conservative and stable [than for-profit schools], and […]

At the company’s most recent Food Safety Day, Darin Detwiler, an assistant dean at Northeastern University and a member of QAmagazine’s Advisory Board, spoke about the personal impacts of food poisoning. Detwiler’s son was one of four children who died as a result of the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak. “You only have the luxury […]

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said he would be surprised if Carter receives the maximum sentence of 20 years. But he expects Moniz will reach some kind of a compromise or middle ground that would include some prison time. “I imagine that she’ll get prison time,” he said, adding that a five […]

On this episode of The Secret Worlds of Boston Comic Con. there’s more to comics than superheroes! We explore the comics and geek culture that take on real-world social and political issues: how fantasy worlds are being used to create change in the real world, including insight from Northeastern professor Hillary Chute.