About Elizabeth Monkus

Elizabeth Monkus (she/her) is the Senior Attorney & Project Director for Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts. Elizabeth came to Chicago Appleseed in 2010 to manage the Judicial Performance Commission Demonstration project. She currently focuses on domestic relations and judicial elections in her program work.

Links of Interest for May 1-6, 2011

Criminal Justice University of Virginia Law Professor Brandon Garrett discusses at Slate false confessions and eyewitness testimony in the wake of Illinois abolishing the death penalty.  New York’s Chief Judge is working to create a system which provides counsel to indigent defendants at arraig...
May 5, 2011

Links of Interest for April 18-22, 2010

Criminal Justice Court Reform The Supreme Court heard argument in Tapia v. United States (10-5400) on the question of whether a district court may give a defendant a longer prison sentence to promote rehabilitation. SCotUSblog has documents and an argument recap. Questions of rehabilitation, recid...
April 24, 2011
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