Samuel R. Gross

University of Michigan Law School

Thomas and Mabel Long Professor of Law

625 South State Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215

United States

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1.

Exonerations in the United States, 1989 Through 2003

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 95, No. 2, 2005
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Jul 2005
Samuel R. Gross, Kristen Jacoby, Daniel J. Matheson, Nicholas Montgomery and Sujata Patil
University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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False convictions, exonerations, false confessions, DNA, death penalty, capital punishment, criminal law, perjury, misidentification

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Exonerations in the United States, 1989–2012

U of Michigan Public Law Working Paper No. 277, 7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 109 Posted: 26 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2022
Samuel R. Gross, Michael Shaffer and National Registry of Exonerations
University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University - College of Law
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false convictions, wrongful convictions, exonerations, false confessions, DNA, criminal law, perjury, misidentification

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Convicting the Innocent

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Convicting the Innocent

U of Michigan Public Law Working Paper No. 103, Annual Review, 2007
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2008
Samuel R. Gross
University of Michigan Law School
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wrongful convictions, exonerations, criminal prosecution

Convicting the Innocent

Annual Review of Law & Social Science, Vol. 4, December 2008
Posted: 27 Dec 2008
Samuel R. Gross
University of Michigan Law School

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false convictions, wrongful convictions, exonerations, prosecution, trial, criminal justice

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Second Thoughts: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty at the Turn of the Century

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 20 Mar 2001
Samuel R. Gross and Phoebe C. Ellsworth
University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan Law School
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Frequency and Predictors of False Conviction: Why We Know So Little, and New Data on Capital Cases

2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, U of Michigan Public Law Working Paper No. 93, MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-14
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Jun 2007
Samuel R. Gross and Barbara O'Brien
University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University - College of Law
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wrongful convictions, exonerations, capital punishment

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Road Work: Racial Profiling and Drug Interdiction on the Highway

Number of pages: 120 Posted: 08 Nov 2002
Samuel R. Gross and Katherine Y. Barnes
University of Michigan Law School and University of Arizona Rogers College of Law
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racial profiling, ethnic profiling, drug intrerdiction, war on drugs, racial discrimination, Maryland State Police, I-95, Interstate Highway 95, search and seizure, Fourth Amendment, Equal protection, Fourteenth Amendment

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Expert Information and Expert Evidence: A Preliminary Taxonomy

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 08 Dec 2003
Samuel R. Gross and Jennifer Mnookin
University of Michigan Law School and University of Wisconsin-Madison
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How Many False Convictions are There? How Many Exonerations are There?

Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice: Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems, C. R. Huff & M. Killias eds., Routledge, March 2013 , U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 316
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 28 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2013
Samuel R. Gross
University of Michigan Law School
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Wrongful conviction, false conviction, exoneration, death penalty, rape, criminal justice

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Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States 2022

U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 22-051, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-051
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 25 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2023
Samuel R. Gross, Maurice Possley, Ken Otterbourg, Klara Stephens, Jessica Paredes and Barbara O'Brien
University of Michigan Law School, University of California Irvine, Independent, Independent, Independent and Michigan State University - College of Law
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Race, exonerations, wrongful convictions, false convictions, murder, sexual assault, drug crimes, criminal investigations, criminal convictions, eyewitness identifications, DNA, forensic evidence, police misconduct, official misconduct

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Government Misconduct and Convicting the Innocent, The Role of Prosecutors, Police and Other Law Enforcement

U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 21-003, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 21-003
Number of pages: 218 Posted: 13 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2022
Samuel R. Gross, Maurice Possley, Kaitlin Roll, Klara Stephens and National Registry of Exonerations
University of Michigan Law School, University of California Irvine, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Independent and Michigan State University - College of Law
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Prosecutorial misconduct, police misconduct, official misconduct, exonerations, wrongful convictions, criminal investigations, criminal convictions, forensic evidence

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Bayes Wars Redivivus - An Exchange

International Commentary on Evidence, Vol. 8, No. 1, November 2010, The Pennsylvania State University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 36-2010
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2012
Roger C. Park, Peter Tillers, Frederick Crawford Moss, D. Michael Risinger, David H. Kaye, Ronald J. Allen, Samuel R. Gross, Bruce L. Hay, Michael S. Pardo and Paul F. Kirgis
UC Law, San Francisco, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Seton Hall Law School, PSU - Penn State Law (University Park), Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Center and St. John's University School of Law
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evidence, relevance, probative value, inference, Bayes' rule, likelihood ratio

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What We Think, What We Know and What We Think We Know about False Convictions

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2017 (Forthcoming), U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 537
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2017
Samuel R. Gross
University of Michigan Law School
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false convictions, wrongful convictions, exonerations, false confessions, DNA, criminal law, perjury, misidentification

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David Baldus and the Legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 6, 2012, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 301
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2013
Samuel R. Gross
University of Michigan Law School
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criminal law, criminal procedure, death penalty, capital punishment, racial discrimination, Supreme Court, McCleskey v. Kemp, David Baldus

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The Rhetoric of Racial Profiling

U of Michigan Public Law Working Paper No. 66
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Oct 2006
Samuel R. Gross
University of Michigan Law School
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racial profiling, racial discrimination, war on drugs, criminal justice, policing

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What They Say at the End: Capital Victims' Families and the Press

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Jul 2003
Samuel R. Gross and Daniel J. Matheson
University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan Law School
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death penalty, capital punishment, crime victims, executions, innocent defendants, exonerations, crime, punishment, criminal justice

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Rate of False Conviction of Criminal Defendants Who Are Sentenced to Death

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 405, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-011
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 May 2014 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2018
Samuel R. Gross, Barbara O'Brien, Chen Hu and Edward Kennedy
University of Michigan Law School, Michigan State University - College of Law, American College of Radiology and University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine
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false convictions, wrongful convictions, exonerations, death penalty, capital punishment, survival analysis, statistics, criminal law

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Pretrial Incentives, Post-Conviction Review, and Sorting Criminal Prosecutions by Guilt or Innocence

New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2011, U of Michigan Public Law Working Paper No. 254
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2011
Samuel R. Gross
University of Michigan Law School
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wrongful conviction, exoneration, plea bargaining, pretrial incentives, criminal law, criminal prosecution, Post-conviction review, plea bargain

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Reply to Richard A. Leo and Jon B. Gould

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 9, 2011 , U of Michigan Public Law Working Paper No. 211
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 22 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2010
Samuel R. Gross and Barbara O'Brien
University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University - College of Law
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wrongful convictions, false convictions, exonerations, criminal prosecution

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Detection of Deception: The Case of Handwriting Expertise

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 28 Dec 2003
Samuel R. Gross
University of Michigan Law School
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Errors in Misdemeanor Adjudication

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 98, p. 999, 2018, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 610
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 01 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2018
Samuel R. Gross
University of Michigan Law School
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exonerations, false convictions, wrongful convictions, misdemeanors, guilty pleas

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Umbilical Cord Blood Collection, Storage and Transplantation: Issues and Recommendations for Expectant Parents and Patients

Cancer Research Therapy and Control 10: 217-226, 1999
Posted: 04 Sep 2014
Franklin Smith, Joel Kurtzberg, E. Karson, C. Howe, Benjamin Wilfond, Hal Broxmeyer, Anna C. Mastroianni, Samuel R. Gross and Jeremy Sugarman
Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent, University of Washington, Indiana University - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Washington - School of Law, University of Michigan Law School and Independent

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Blood, Cord Blood, Parents, Patients, Transplantation, Genetics, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Blood Transfusion, Donation / Procurement of Organs and Tissues, Health Care for Newborns and Minors

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Review for Error

Law, Probability and Risk, Vol. 2, pp. 259-268, December 2003
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Anna-Rose Mathieson and Samuel R. Gross
University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan Law School

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Racial Profiling Under Attack

Posted: 05 Jun 2002
Samuel R. Gross and Debra Livingston
University of Michigan Law School and Columbia Law School

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We Could Pass a Law . . . What Might Happen If Contingent & Legal Fees Were Banned

De Paul Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, 1998
Posted: 10 Nov 1998
Samuel R. Gross
University of Michigan Law School

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Don't Try: Civil Jury Verdicts in System Geared to Settlement

in the UCLA Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, (1996).
Posted: 04 Jul 1997
Samuel R. Gross and Kent D. Syverud
University of Michigan Law School and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

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