Professor Carroll joined the faculty of UC College of Law in 2005. Until May 2008, she served as Academic Director of the Ohio Innocence Project, supervising the work of law school students petitioning innocence claims in state and federal court. Currently, she teaches courses in the areas of white-collar crime, criminal law, and criminal procedure.
Previously, Professor Carroll worked as a juvenile and felony staff attorney for The Defender Association in Seattle. There, she represented indigent defendants in criminal and mental health matters in adult and juvenile court. Professor Carroll also was a Prettyman Fellow at the Criminal Justice Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, co-teaching a clinical course for third-year law students, as well as supervising students in representing indigent defendants on a variety of criminal matters. Prior to teaching, she clerked for the Hon. William Wayne Justice of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas.
Professor Carroll has been an invited speaker at conferences across the country. An accomplished writer, she is published in the Texas Law Review and the ABA Juvenile Law Publication.
Jenny presented Rethinking the Constitutional Criminal Procedure of Juvenile Transfer Hearings: Apprendi, Adult Punishment, Adult Process, 61 Hastings L.J. ___ (2009), at the Juvenile Defender Leadership Conference in Denver. Her latest paper, Of Rebels, Rogues and Roustabouts: The Jury's Second Coming, was featured on Larry Solum’s Legal Theory Blog and Kevin Cole’s CrimProf Blog.
Jenny was quoted in Trapped in the Closet, Slate Magazine, Sept. 11, 2009.
A brief written by Jenny, along with students Bobbi Madonna and Whitney Sheff, helped convince a judge to acquit Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen of child abuse in June of this year:
Jenny appeared on Midweek Politics Radio to discuss the Scott Roeder case (the man accused of killing abortion Dr. Tiller).
The New Mexico Court of Appeals followed (and cited) Jenny’s recommendation, in Rethinking the Constitutional Criminal Procedure of Juvenile Transfer Hearings: Apprendi, Adult Punishment and Adult Process, 60 Hastings L.J. ___ (2009), that findings justifying the transfer of a juvenile to adult court must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. New Mexico v. Rudy B., No. 27,589.
Jenny’s article, Images of Women and Capital Sentencing Among Female Offenders: Exploring the Outer Limits of the Eighth Amendment and Articulated Theories of Justice, 75 Tex. L. Rev. 1413 (1997), was cited in Katie Morgan & Michael J. Zydney Mannheimer, The Impact of Information Overload on the Capital Jury's Ability to Assess Aggravating and Mitigating Factors, 17 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 1089 (2009).
Jenny was quoted in New Evidence Must Be Heard in Court, Mansfield News Journal, July 6, 2009, at 5.
Jenny’s article, Rethinking the Constitutional Criminal Procedure of Juvenile Transfer Hearings: Apprendi, Adult Punishment and Adult Process, 60 Hastings L.J. ____(2009), was featured on Larry Solum’s Legal Theory Blog, Doug Berman’s Sentencing Law and Policy Blog, and the Wall Street Journal’s Stories From Around the Web.
Jenny’s article, Rethinking the Constitutional Criminal Procedure of Juvenile Transfer Hearings: Apprendi, Adult Punishment and Adult Process, was accepted for publication in the Hastings Law Journal.
Jenny was quoted in Passion for Politics, Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 2, 2008, at 1A.
Jenny was quoted in Pursuit of Justice; Private Lab Offers Free DNA Tests in 30 Cases, Columbus Dispatch, Jan. 31, 2008, at 1A.
Jenny appeared (along with Mark Godsey and several UC students) on the A&E Network's Innocence Files Series in a documentary on the Ohio Innocence Project's Glenn Tinney case, featuring several current UC Law Students.
Jenny arranged (with Marianna Bettman) a lunchtime program on Representing the Unpopular Client with local criminal defense lawyers Cathy Adams, Marty Pinales, Scott Rubenstein, and David Singleton. She was quoted in ‘Innocence' Features UC Students, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 20, 2007, at 4D.
Jenny was appointed Assistant Professor of Clinical Law.
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