Pamela R. Metzger

Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law

Director of the Deason Family Criminal Justice Reform Center and Professor of Law

P.O. Box 750116

Dallas, TX 75275

United States

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Defending Data

88 Southern California Law Review 1057 (2015), Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 13-14
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 18 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2019
Pamela R. Metzger and Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and American University Washington College of Law
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data analysis, criminal defense, Gideon, indigent defense, evidence-based, big data, systems approach

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Charging Time

108 Iowa L. Rev. 1723 (2023), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 536, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 23-3
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 15 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 31 May 2023
Pamela R. Metzger and Janet C. Hoeffel
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and Tulane University - Law School
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Substantive Due Process, Due Process, Detention, Pretrial Detention, Charging Process, Mass Incarceration, Procedural Due Process

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Criminal (Dis)Appearance

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 88, No. 2, 2020, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 442, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 19-13
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 04 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2020
Pamela R. Metzger and Janet C. Hoeffel
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and Tulane University - Law School
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criminal justice system, criminal law, detention-without-process, due process right, due process of law, criminal procedure

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Me and Mr. Jones: A Systems-Based Analysis of a Catastrophic Defense Outcome

78 Albany Law Review 1261 (2015), Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 15-4
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 May 2015 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2019
Pamela R. Metzger
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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data collection, public defender, incarceration, probation violation, Katrina-Gideon Interview project

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Rural Criminal Justice Reform

in TRANSFORMING CRIMINAL JUSTICE: AN EVIDENCE-BASED AGENDA FOR REFORM (Jon B. Gould & Pamela R. Metzger, eds., NYU Press 2022), https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479818839.003.0013, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 572
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2022
Pamela R. Metzger
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Rural criminal justice systems, Criminal justice reform, Rural communities, Administration of justice, Access to justice, Attorney shortage, Rural legal deserts, Equal justice, Fair Process, Rural justice research

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Ending Injustice: Solving the Initial Appearance Crisis

Report. Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center (September 2021), https://doi.org/10.25172/dc.3, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 529
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2023
Pamela R. Metzger, Janet C. Hoeffel, Kristin Meeks and Sandra Sidi
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Tulane University - Law School, TIDC (Texas Indigent Defense Commission) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Criminal procedure, Criminal justice, Pretrial detention, Arrest, Sixth Amendment, inequity

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Fear of Adversariness: Using Gideon to Restrict Defendants' Invocation of Adversary Procedures

122 Yale Law Journal 2550 (2013), Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 13-13
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 Jun 2013
Pamela R. Metzger
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Gideon v Wainwright, Sixth Amendment, adversary right, Strickland v Washington, Taylor v Illinois, defendant autonomy, fundamental rights

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Getting Gideon Right: Eligibility for Appointed Counsel in Texas Misdemeanor Cases

Report. Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center (April 2022), https://doi.org/10.25172/dc.8
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2023
Andrew Davies, Blane Skiles, Pamela R. Metzger, Janelle Gursoy and Alex Romo
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Texas criminal law, Appointed counsel, Gideon v. Wainwright, Sixth amendment, Right to counsel, Indigent defense

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Confrontation as a Rule of Production

24 William & Mary Bill of Rights 995 (2016), Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 16-5
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2019
Pamela R. Metzger
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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confrontation, production, notice-and-demand, notice and demand, Melendez-Diaz, Bullcoming, Crawford

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Doing Katrina Time

81 Tulane Law Review 1175 (2007), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 444
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 10 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2019
Pamela R. Metzger
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Disaster Law, Sentencing, Constitutional Law, Law Enforcement, Government, Negligence, Torts, Victims

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Confrontation Control

45 Texas Tech Law Review 83 (2012) , Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 13-12
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Jun 2013
Pamela R. Metzger
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Sixth Amendment, Confrontation, Crawford v. Washington, criminal defense, agency, attorney-client

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Beyond the Bright Line: A Contemporary Right-to-Counsel Doctrine

97 Northwestern University Law Review 1635 (2003), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 10 Sep 2019
Pamela R. Metzger
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Right to Counsel, Sixth Amendment, Sentencing, Trials

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Greening Criminal Legal Deserts in Rural Texas

Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center (October 2022), https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.25172/dc.10, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 579
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 04 Jan 2023
Pamela R. Metzger, Claire Buetow, Kristin Meeks, Blane Skiles and Jiacheng Yu
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, TIDC (Texas Indigent Defense Commission), Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Criminal justice, Texas, Rural communities, Discrimination in criminal justice administration, Access to justice, Attorney shortage

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COVID-19 and the Ruralization of U.S. Criminal Court Systems

2020 University of Chicago Law Review Online 70 (2020), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 519
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 10 Sep 2021
Pamela R. Metzger and Gregory J. Guggenmos
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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COVID-19, criminal law, criminal justice system, criminal courts, rural communities, criminal justice reform, legal practice and procedure

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The ABCs of Racial Disparity : Enforcement of Low-Level Drug Crimes in Dallas County in 2018

Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center (May 2021), https://doi.org/10.25172/dc.6, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 577
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Jan 2023
Pamela R. Metzger, Kenitra Brown, Andrew Davies, Kristin Meeks and Victoria M. Smiegocki
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, SMU Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, TIDC (Texas Indigent Defense Commission) and Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Marijuana, Law enforcement, Race, Racial inequity, Dallas county (Tex.), Marijuana prosecution reforms, Criminal law

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Cheating the Constitution

59 Vanderbilt Law Review 475 (2006), Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 05-09
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 21 Jun 2005 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2019
Pamela R. Metzger
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Confrontation Clause, mandatory rebuttable presumption, mandatory conclusive presumption, criminalist report, forensics report, crime laboratory, scientific evidence, innocence, burden shifting, Crawford, demand-waiver, business records, public records, notice and demand, forensic ipse dixit

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Budding Change : Marijuana Prosecution Policies and Police Practices in Dallas County, 2019

Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center (July 2021), https://doi.org/10.25172/dc.5, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 578
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 04 Jan 2023
Pamela R. Metzger, Victoria M. Smiegocki and Kristin Meeks
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and TIDC (Texas Indigent Defense Commission)
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Marijuana, Misdemeanor laws, Dallas county (Tex.), Marijuana prosecution reforms, Police practices

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The Difference a D.A. Makes

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Nov 2023
Pamela R. Metzger, Victoria M. Smiegocki and Shem Vinton
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Prosecution, prosecutorial discretion, progressive prosecution, non-prosecution, declination, marijuana, misdemeanors, racial injustice,

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Criminal Charging

Posted: 21 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2022
Pamela R. Metzger and Janet C. Hoeffel
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and Tulane University - Law School

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Substantive Due Process, Due Process, Detention, Pretrial Detention, Charging Process, Mass Incarceration, Procedural Due Process