In this episode of See generally, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor Sandra Mayson joins Sheila Orfano to discuss Systemic Failure to Appear in Court, a University of Pennsylvania Law Review article co-authored with Lindsay Graef, Ph.D candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Arts and Sciences Department of Criminology; Aurelie Ouss, Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Arts and Sciences Department of Criminology; and Megan Stevenson, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Their article introduces the concept of non-defendant failure to appear as a systemic issue through an analysis of case data from the Philadelphia criminal legal system. It also examines the common motives of the nonappearance of essential witnesses and the consequences on defendants and the justice system, and proposes potential solutions.
Interview by Sheila Orfano, Online Managing Editor, Vol. 172, University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Produced and edited by Sheila Orfano.
