Sheri Lynn Johnson

Publications

• <em>Atkins v. Virginia</em> at Twenty: Still Adaptive Deficits, Still in the Developmental Period
  29 WASH. & LEE. J. C. R. & SOC. JUST. 55 (2022) · Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice · 2022

• Racial Antagonism, Sexual Betrayal, Graft, and More: Rethinking and Remedying the Universe of Defense Counsel Failings
  97 WASH. U. L. REV. 057 (2019) · Washington University Law Review · 2019
• Protecting People with Intellectual Disability from Wrongful Execution: Guidelines for Competent Representation
  46 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2018) · Hofstra Law Review · 2018
• The Pre-Furman Juvenile Death Penalty in South Carolina: Young Black Life Was Cheap
  68 S. C. L. REV. (2017) · South Carolina Law Review · 2017
• When Empathy Bites Back: Cautionary Tales from Neuroscience for Capital Sentencing
  85 FORDHAM L. REV. 573 (2016) · Fordham Law Review · 2016
• A Legal Obituary for Ramiro
  50 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 291 (2016) · University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform · 2016
• A Tale of Two (and Possibly Three) Atkins: Intellectual Disability and Capital Punishment Twelve Years After the Supreme Court’s Creation of a Categorical Bar
  23 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 393 (2014) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2014
• Gideon Exceptionalism?
  122 YALE L.J. 2126 (2013) · Yale Law Journal · 2013
• Convicting Lennie: Mental Retardation, Wrongful Convictions, and the Right to a Fair Trial
  56 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 944 (2012) · NYLS Law Review · 2012
• In Defense of Noncapital Habeas: A Response to Hoffmann and King
  96 CORNELL L. REV. 435 (2011) · Cornell Law Review · 2011

• Of Atkins and Men: Deviations from Clinical Definitions of Mental Retardation in Death Penalty Cases
  18 CORNELL J. L. & PUB. POL'Y 689 (2009) · Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy · 2009
• Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges
  84 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1195 (2009) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2009
• Competent Capital Representation: The Necessity of Knowing and Heeding What Jurors Tell Us about Mitigation
  36 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2008) · Hofstra Law Review · 2008
• Wishing Petitioners to Death: Factual Misrepresentations in Fourth Circuit Capital Cases
  91 CORNELL L. REV. 1105 (2006) · Cornell Law Review · 2006
• Education and Interrogation: Comparing Brown and Miranda
  90 CORNELL L. REV. 321 (2005) · Cornell Law Review · 2005
• Implicit Racial Attitudes of Death Penalty Lawyers
  53 DEPAUL L. REV. 1539 (2004) · DePaul Law Review · 2004
• Speeding in Reverse: An Anecdotal View of Why Victim Impact Testimony Should Not Be Driving Capital Prosecutions
  88 CORNELL L. REV. 555 (2003) · Cornell Law Review · 2003
• Killing the Non-Willing: Atkins, the Volitionally Incapacitated and the Death Penalty
  55 S. C. L. REV. (2003) · South Carolina Law Review · 2003
• Future Dangerousness in Capital Cases: Always at Issue
  86 CORNELL L. REV. 397 (2001) · Cornell Law Review · 2001
• Probing "Life Qualification" Through Expanded Voir Dire
  29 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2001) · Hofstra Law Review · 2001
• Correcting Deadly Confusion: Responding to Jury Inquiries in Capital Cases
  85 CORNELL L. REV. 627 (2000) · Cornell Law Review · 2000
• Don't Take His Eye, Don't Take His Tooth, and Don't Cast the First Stone: Limiting Religious Arguments in Capital Cases
  9 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 61 (2000) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2000

• The Fourth Circuit's "Doube-Edged Sword": Eviscerating the Right to Present Mitigating Evidence and Beheading the Right to the Assistance of Counsel
  58 MD. L. REV. 1480 (1999) · Maryland Law Review · 1999
• Post-McCleskey Racial Discrimination Claims in Capital Cases
  83 CORNELL L. REV. 1771 (1998) · Cornell Law Review · 1998
• Batson Ethics for Prosecutors and Trial Court Judges
  73 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 475 (1998) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 1998
• Respectability, Race Neutrality, and Truth
  107 YALE L.J. 2619 (1998) · Yale Law Journal · 1998
• The Color of Truth: Race and the Assessment of Credibility
  1 MICH. J. RACE & L. 261 (1996) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 1996
• Response to Professor Choper: Laying Down Another Ladder
  79 CORNELL L. REV. 522 (1994) · Cornell Law Review · 1994
• The Language and Culture (Not to Say Race) of Peremptory Challenges
  35 WM. & MARY L. REV. 21 (1993) · William & Mary Law Review · 1993
• Effects of Intent: Do We Know How Legal Standards Work
  76 CORNELL L. REV. 1151 (1991) · Cornell Law Review · 1991

• Unconscious Racism and the Criminal Law
  73 CORNELL L. REV. 1016 (1988) · Cornell Law Review · 1988
• The Politics of Predicting Criminal Violence
  86 MICH. L. REV. 1322 (1988) · Michigan Law Review · 1988
• Black Innocence and the White Jury
  83 MICH. L. REV. 1611 (1985) · Michigan Law Review · 1985
• Cross-Racial Indentification Errors in Criminal Cases
  69 CORNELL L. REV. 934 (1984) · Cornell Law Review · 1984
• Race and the Decision To Detain a Suspect
  93 YALE L.J. 214 (1983) · Yale Law Journal · 1983