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Michael Cicchini's Law Review Articles

In my efforts to advocate for legal reform I have also published extensively in law reviews (organized by topic, below). My articles have been cited in state and federal court decisions, annotated statutes, legal treatises, attorneys' motions and briefs, legal reform initiatives, books, newspaper articles, social science journal articles, and in other law review articles. Law review articles are not legal advice. If you have a legal issue or question of any kind, immediately call me or a licensed attorney in your state.

Preliminary Hearings

The Preliminary-Hearing Swindle: A Crime Against Procedure, LOYOLA L.A. L. Rev. (2025) (pdf)Download
Defense Lawyer Decision-Making and the Preliminary Hearing, NORTHWESTERN U. L. Rev. Online (2024) (pdf)Download
Improvident Prosecutions, DREXEL L. Rev. (2020) (pdf)Download

plea bargaining

Plea Bargains, Prosecutorial Breach, and the Curious Right to Cure, BROOKLYN L. Rev. (2024) (pdf)Download
Preliminary-Hearing Waivers and the Contract to Negotiate, PEPPEERDINE L. Rev. (2023) (pdf)Download
Deal Jumpers, U. ILLINOIS L. Rev. (2021) (pdf)Download
Under the Gun: Plea Bargains and the Arbitrary Deadline, TEMPLE L. Rev. (2020) (pdf)Download
Broken Government Promises: A Contract-Based Approach to Plea Bargains, NEW MEXICO L. Rev. (2008) (pdf)Download

Miranda & Interrogations

The New Miranda Warning, SMU L. Rev. (2012) (pdf)Download
Overcoming Miranda: A Content Analysis of Police Interrogations, IDAHO L. Rev. (2012) (pdf)Download
An Empirical Basis for the Admission of Expert Testimony on False Confessions, ARIZ. ST. L.J. (2008) (pdf)Download

Other Pretrial Matters

Bail Jumping While Behind Bars, U. Kansas L. Rev. (2024) (pdf)Download
The New Absurdity Doctrine, PENN STATE L. Rev. (2021) (pdf)Download
Criminal Repeater Statutes: Occasions, Convictions, and Absurd Results, HOUSTON L. Rev. Online 2020 (pdf)Download
An Economics Perspective on the Exclusionary Rule and Deterrence, MISSOURI L. Rev. (2010) (pdf)Download
Reforming the Law on Show-Up Identifications, J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY (2010) (pdf)Download

Judicial & Prosecutorial misconduct

Constraining Strickland, TEXAS A&M L. Rev. (2020) (pdf)Download
Combating Judicial Misconduct: A Stoic Approach, BUFFALO L. Rev. (2019) (pdf)Download
Combating Prosecutorial Misconduct in Closing Arguments, OKLAHOMA L. Rev. (2018) (pdf)Download
Prosecutorial Misconduct at Trial: A New Perspective, SETON HALL L. Rev. (2007) (pdf)Download

Confrontation Clause

Dead Again: The Latest Demise of the Confrontation Clause, FORDHAM L. Rev. (2011) (pdf)Download
Judicial (In)Discretion: How Courts Circumvent the Confrontation Clause, TENNESSEE L. Rev. (2008) (pdf)Download
Confrontation after Crawford v. Washington: Defining "Testimonial", LEWIS & CLARK L. Rev. (2006) (pdf)Download

trial evidence

The Daubert Double Standard, MICHIGAN ST. L. Rev. (2021) (pdf)Download
Daubert Strategies for the Criminal Defense Bar, U. ILLINOIS L. Rev. Online (2021) (pdf)Download
A Clean Record as Character Evidence, MISSISSIPPI L.J. (2021) (pdf)Download
Convictions Based on Character: An Empirical Test of Other-Acts Evidence, FLORIDA L. Rev. (2018) (pdf)Download
An Alternative to the Wrong-Person Defense, GEO. MASON U. CIV. RTS. L.J. (2013) (pdf)Download

Burden of Proof: Truth / Doubt Language

Spin Doctors: Prosecutor Sophistry and the Burden of Proof, U. CINCINNATI L. Rev. (2018) (pdf)Download
Educating Judges and Lawyers in Behavioral Research: A Case Study, GONZAGA L. Rev. (2017-18) (pdf)Download
The Battle over the Burden of Proof: A Report from the Trenches, U. PITTSBURGH L. Rev. (2017) (pdf)Download
Testing the Impact of Criminal Jury Instructions: A Replication, COLUMBIA L. Rev. Online (2017) (pdf)Download
Truth or Doubt? An Empirical Test of Criminal Jury Instructions, U. RICHMOND L. Rev. (2016) (pdf)Download

Defining Reasonable Doubt

Reasonable Doubt and Relativity, WASHINGTON & LEE L. Rev. (2019) (pdf)Download
Is Reasonable Doubt Self-Defining?, VILLANOVA L. Rev. (2019) (pdf)Download
Instructing Jurors on Reasonable Doubt: It's All Relative, CALIFORNIA L. Rev. Online (2017) (pdf)Download

Criminal Law - Other

The Devil's Dictionary of Criminal Procedure, DENVER L. Rev. Forum (2025) (pdf)Download
The Myth of Fundamental Decisions, KENTUCKY L.J. (2024) (pdf)Download
Disorderly Conduct: An Investigation into Police and Prosecutor Practices, LMU L. Rev. (2021) (pdf)Download
Criminal Jury Instructions: A Case Study, ALBANY L. Rev. (2020-21) (pdf)Download
The Collapsing Constitution, HOFSTRA L. Rev. (2014) (pdf)Download

non-criminal law topics

Law Review Publishing and Potential Reform, U. NEW HAMPSHIRE L. Rev. (2017) (pdf)Download
Three Rules for Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers, MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE L. Rev. (2015) (pdf)Download
On the Absurdity of Model Rule 1.9, VERMONT L. Rev. (2015) (pdf)Download

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