Eric M. Freedman, Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, was quoted in the following article.

Star-Telegram
Questions raised about the 'science' of autopsies
By YAMIL BERARD
Star-Telegram
Sep. 30, 2009

EXCERPT:
To avoid bias, most medical examiner offices have checks in place. Tarrant is among those that hire death investigators to gather information from crime scenes so they don’t have to rely on law enforcement. However, Peerwani said he has to rely on police reports and photographs for autopsies he is called to do outside the four counties he serves as medical examiner.

A number of cases over the years point to practices in which critics say a boundary between the scientist and law enforcement was crossed.

Eric M. Freedman, a professor at New York’s Hofstra Law School who specializes in criminal procedure and strategy, is among those who say that medical examiner opinions are sometimes twisted and turned to fit the theories of prosecutors and law enforcement. "The medical examiner considers it his job to support whatever series of theories the prosecutors decide to dream up rather than focus on the objective truth," he said.

"That’s what I see happening," said Richard Ellis, an attorney for a Sulphur Springs man on Death Row. "If you start off with a goal in mind, it’s kind of easy to get through only looking at signs that point to that preconceived notion to how death occurred."

Eric M. Freedman, Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, and Leon Friedman, Joseph Kushner Distinguished Professor of Civil Liberties Law, were quoted in the following Newsday article.

Q&A on Suffolk's drug-sniffing dogs
By STACEY ALTHERR AND SUMATHI REDDY
Newsday
September 24, 2009

EXCERPT:
Are there any legal questions involved in police dogs finding drugs on school premises during training exercises?

No, according to some legal experts.

"Randomly finding something that was not intentionally being searched for doesn't implicate any search and seizure issues," said Eric Freedman, a constitutional law professor at Hofstra Law School.
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But Leon Friedman, also a constitutional law professor at Hofstra, said dogs sniffing is inherently a search. "If it's conducted by the police, it has to comply with the Fourth Amendment," he said. "The Fourth Amendment requires probable cause before you can actually do the search."