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Jeffrey Bellin is the Mills E. Godwin Jr. professor of law at William & Mary Law School where he teaches and writes about criminal procedure and evidence. He is the author of the volume on Hearsay for the “Wright & Miller” Federal Practice and Procedure treatise. In 2023, he published, Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover with Cambridge University Press.

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OPINION ANALYSIS

Divided court finds generic redactions sufficient to admit confessions of non-testifying codefendants

By Jeffrey Bellin on Jun 23, 2023 at 6:46 pm

Sketch of the courtroom as the bespectacled man at the podium exchanges words with Justice Barrett.

ARGUMENT ANALYSIS

Justices search for a clear rule for confessions in joint trials

By Jeffrey Bellin on Mar 30, 2023 at 1:58 pm

A side view of the Supreme Court building in pink sunlight.

CASE PREVIEW

The evidentiary challenges of confessions in co-defendant trials

By Jeffrey Bellin on Mar 27, 2023 at 1:25 pm

Opinion Analysis

Divided court issues bright-line ruling on Fourth Amendment seizures

By Jeffrey Bellin on Mar 25, 2021 at 5:15 pm

Argument analysis: Justices spar over stare decisis, originalism, text and what counts as a Fourth Amendment “seizure”

By Jeffrey Bellin on Oct 16, 2020 at 3:08 pm

Case preview: When is a fleeing suspect “seized”?

By Jeffrey Bellin on Oct 13, 2020 at 9:00 am

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