Author Page for Barbara O'Brien

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Confirmation Bias in Criminal Investigations

1st Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Jul 2006

Barbara O'Brien and Phoebe C. Ellsworth

Michigan State University - College of Law 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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Psychological Perspectives: Cognition and Decision Making

Chapter Three in Examining Wrongful Convictions: Stepping Back, Moving Forward, Carolina Academic Press, 2014 Forthcoming

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 May 2014

Keith A. Findley and Barbara O'Brien

University of Wisconsin Law School and Michigan State University - College of Law

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A Recipe for Bias: An Empirical Look at the Interplay between Institutional Incentives and Bounded Rationality in Prosecutorial Decision Making

Missouri Law Review, Forthcoming, MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-08

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 May 2009

Barbara O'Brien

Michigan State University - College of Law

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It's Not Just What You Think But Also How You Think About it: The Effect of Situationally Primed Mindsets on Legal Judgments and Decision Making

Marquette Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 1, 2008, MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-19

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Dec 2008

Barbara O'Brien and Daphna Oyserman

Michigan State University - College of Law and University of Southern California

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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: 13 May 2014

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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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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A Stubborn Legacy: The Overwhelming Importance of Race in Jury Selection in 173 Post-Batson North Carolina Capital Trials

Iowa Law Review, Forthcoming, MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-10

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 May 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2012

Catherine M. Grosso, Barbara O'Brien and George G. Woodworth

Michigan State University College of Law, Michigan State University - College of Law and University of Iowa - Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science

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Confronting Race: How a Confluence of Social Movements Convinced North Carolina to Go Where the McCleskey Court Wouldn’t

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2011, No. 3, 2011, MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-21

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Sep 2012

Barbara O'Brien and Catherine M. Grosso

Michigan State University - College of Law and Michigan State University College of Law

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Beyond Batson's Scrutiny: A Preliminary Look at Racial Disparities in Prosecutorial Preemptory Strikes Following the Passage of the North Carolina Racial Justice Act

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 46, 2013, MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-11

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Jun 2013

Barbara O'Brien and Catherine M. Grosso

Michigan State University - College of Law and Michigan State University College of Law

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Grounding Criminal Procedure

Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2017

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Mar 2017

Catherine M. Grosso and Barbara O'Brien

Michigan State University College of Law and Michigan State University - College of Law

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Untangling the Role of Race in Capital Charging and Sentencing in North Carolina, 1990-2009

94 North Carolina Law Review 1997 (2016)

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2017

Barbara O'Brien, Catherine M. Grosso, George G. Woodworth and Abijah Taylor

Michigan State University - College of Law, Michigan State University College of Law, University of Iowa - Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science and Michigan State University - College of Law

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Michigan State University - College of Law

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Scholarly Papers (12)

Confirmation Bias in Criminal Investigations

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Frequency and Predictors of False Conviction: Why We Know So Little, and New Data on Capital Cases

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Psychological Perspectives: Cognition and Decision Making

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A Recipe for Bias: An Empirical Look at the Interplay between Institutional Incentives and Bounded Rationality in Prosecutorial Decision Making

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It's Not Just What You Think But Also How You Think About it: The Effect of Situationally Primed Mindsets on Legal Judgments and Decision Making

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

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Reply to Richard A. Leo and Jon B. Gould

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A Stubborn Legacy: The Overwhelming Importance of Race in Jury Selection in 173 Post-Batson North Carolina Capital Trials

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Confronting Race: How a Confluence of Social Movements Convinced North Carolina to Go Where the McCleskey Court Wouldn’t

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Beyond Batson's Scrutiny: A Preliminary Look at Racial Disparities in Prosecutorial Preemptory Strikes Following the Passage of the North Carolina Racial Justice Act

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Grounding Criminal Procedure

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Untangling the Role of Race in Capital Charging and Sentencing in North Carolina, 1990-2009

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