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One of the central predicates of legal regulation of media ownership is that ownership consolidation reduces substantive viewpoint diversity. Appellate courts and, in turn, the Federal Communications Commission have increasingly demanded evidence for this convergence hypothesis, but extant empirical measures of viewpoint diversity sidestep the problem, ignoring diversity, viewpoints, or both. Our Article develops and…

Federal prosecutors wield enormous power. They have the authority to make charging decisions, enter cooperation agreements, accept pleas, and often dictate sentences or sentencing ranges. There are currently no effective legal checks in place to police the manner in which prosecutors exercise their discretion. As a result, in the current era dominated by pleas instead…

Three-year-old Nathan Siler told Detective Larry Martin that he wanted to see his mother who, Nathan claimed, was "sleeping standing" in the garage. Tragically, Nathan's mother was dead, hanging from a "yellow cord tied to the track of the overhead garage door." Nathan told Martin that he had seen his father, Brian Siler, and mother…