Associate Dean and Professor @UofSCLaw; Blog Editor, EvidenceProf Blog; Co-Host, @Undisclosedpod
Columbia, SC
Joined November 2009
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In today's new @Undisclosedpod, we talk to Nashville native Stephanie Tinsley, the host of "Everything They Missed," about the Holly Bobo case: audioboom.com/posts/8964537-…
Today's blog post: "Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Finds Prosecutor Telling the Jury the Defendant Sought the Advice of an Attorney Before Being Arrested Was (Harmless) Error": evidenceprofblog.com/2026/10…
A week or two after Holly Bobo was abducted, search & rescue dogs traced her faint scent from her home to the house where a suspect was staying, a suspect who had previously burglarized her home. Learn more in this week's new @Undisclosedpod: audioboom.com/posts/8963166-…
Maybe John Landis, who went from "The Kentucky Fried Movie," "Animal House," and "The Blues Brothers" to "An American Werewolf in London."
Notably, felony robbery can be a predicate felony for felony murder while felony battery cannot (under the merger doctrine).
Today's blog post: "California Court Reverses Felony Murder Conviction, Finding Forcible Cutting of Human Hair is Battery, Not Robbery": evidenceprofblog.com/2026/10…
In today's new @Undisclosedpod, we set forth several suspects in Holly Bobo's disappearance, including an ex-boyfriend who threatened to kill her and someone who had burglarized the Bobo's home: audioboom.com/posts/8963166-…
Multiple witnesses placed Walker at his pregnant girlfriend's side at the time of the murder, and the only evidence against Walker was his (later recanted) confession after a coercive & deceptive interrogation by a one-time member of the KKK.
In 1954, Tommy Lee Walker was executed for the 1953 rape and murder of Venice Parker before being posthumously exonerated In January 2026. In a new piece, Christina Swarns says Walker's case show why we should stop tinkering with the machinery of death: innocenceproject.org/news/it…
In today's new @Undisclosedpod Addendum, we talk to the incomparable Dr. Katie Spirko, the forensic and clinical neuropsychologist who has done extensive work on the Holly Bobo case & referred Dylan Adams's case to me: audioboom.com/posts/8961968-…
In 2019, the Supreme Court reversed his convictions, ruling that there was racial discrimination in jury selection. That same year, Flowers was released from behind bars for the first time since his initial arrest in 1997.
Flowers was prosecuted 6 times for the same crime: the murder of 4 people at Tardy Furniture store in Winona, Mississippi.
Curtis Flowers, the most aggressively prosecuted person in U.S. history, has tragically died at 56: mississippitoday.org/2026/10…
Colin Miller retweeted
Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56.
Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
mississippitoday.org/2026/10…