Please join the Joseph G. Miller and William C. Becker Center for Professional Responsibility for our next Prosecutors, Ethics and Promoting Justice Lecture Series. On Friday, Oct. 28 at 4 pm in Room 160, Professor Jane Campbell Moriarty will present Turning a Blind Eye: Prosecutorial Ethics and Expert Evidence.
This lecture will look at how criminal prosecutions are critically dependent on expert evidence—to prove identity with DNA and fingerprints, and even to prove a defendant’s location with triangulation tracking. But attached to such evidence are ethical concerns: What to do with potentially unreliable evidence; whether and when to disclose test results; and how to respond to claims concerning post-conviction exonerations. This presentation aims to illuminate the path that connects the prosecutor’s ethical use of expert evidence with the overarching goals of criminal justice.
About Jane Campbell Moriarty
Jane Campbell Moriarty is the Carol Los Mansmann Chair in Faculty Scholarship and Professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, PA, where she served as the Inaugural Associate Dean of Faculty Research at Duquesne. Previously she was a professor at The University of Akron School of Law, where she was the Faculty Research Director and a fellow in the Miller-Becker Center for Professional Responsibility.
Professor Moriarty’s academic interests are wide-ranging and include expert evidence, neuroscience and law, and legal/judicial ethics. A frequent public speaker, she is the author of articles, book chapters, and treatises, including SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE (Giannelli, Imwinkelried, Roth, & Moriarty, 5th Ed. 2012).
To Register
To register, please contact Shannon Aupperle at sfauppe@uakron.edu or330.972.7988.