“I think he is bearing up as well as he can,” said Dassey’s attorney, Laura Nirider of Bluhm Legal Clinic at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.

On March 1, Laura Nirider and Jason Chaffetz were invited by Miami University’s Janus Forum to cover the tricky topic of the death penalty. The discussion was moderated by junior Political Science and ...

For Laura Nirider, though, that sinking feeling came nearly a decade ago. Nirider was a third-year law student at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law when she was given videos ...

Deception is a powerful law enforcement tool in eliciting confessions, says wrongful convictions attorney Laura Nirider. ... But Nirider says using deception can also draw false confessions.

Ten states have passed laws to ban the practice of lying to juveniles in custody during police interrogations. Now, one state wants to extend the ban to adults too.

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He spent the next 35 years at Robinson Correctional Center proclaiming his innocence before the IIP took up his case with the help of Laura Nirider, a Chicago-based attorney specializing in ...

Brian Beals was convicted in the 1988 death of a 6-year-old; IIP and Taryn Servaes, a 2022 UIS grad and paralegal, provided proof that cleared Beals ...

In this photo provided by Laura Nirider, Brian Beals, center, who was exonerated on a murder charge and released from a downstate prison after 35 years behind bars, hugs his sister Pattilyn Beals ...

In this photo provided by Laura Nirider, Brian Beals, center, who was exonerated on a murder charge and released from a downstate prison after 35 years behind bars, hugs his sister Pattilyn Beals ...

Brian Beals, center, who was exonerated on a murder charge and released from a downstate prison after 35 years behind bars, hugs his sister Pattilyn Beals, left, and niece Tamiko Beals outside ...