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175 innocent men have been on death row in the US
Read about Richard Glossip in Oklahoma. http://www.innocenceproject.org/news-events-exonerations/barry-scheck-urges-oklahoma-governor-to-stay-glossip-execution
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TX lady prosecutor denies failures to follow Brady rules, stating nothing withheld was exculpatory
Now, should we believe her? Her conviction case was remanded for a new trial. Of course the DA’ s office is appealing the lower court’s judgement of wrongdoing. Her admitting that material was withheld from the defense in the original … Continue reading
8 exonerees’ first days of freedom
Learn from this glimpse into the lives and experience of returning to society after years in prison. First days of freedom
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From the Archives: U.S. Mississippi Death Row Case Faults Bite-Mark Forensics
By ERIK ECKHOLM SEPT. 15, 2014 NEW YORK TIMES In one of the country’s first nationally televised criminal trials, of the smirking serial murderer Ted Bundy in Florida in 1979, jurors and viewers alike were transfixed as dental experts showed how … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Quick Clicks…
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
From The National Science Foundation–A new perspective on police interrogations… Connecticut will pay $4 million to former corrections officer Lawrence J. Miller for wrongful conviction… From the LA Times–Clashing courts: Law restricts federal judges’…
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Forensic Mummy investigations : Nefertiti’s boy friend?
I have been involved in mummy identification with the Los Angeles J Paul Getty Villa “Red Shroud” collection in Malibu, so I have a soft spot for looking into the past health issues and skeletal conditions of those long past … Continue reading
THE SHIFTED PARADIGM: FORENSIC SCIENCE’S OVERDUE EVOLUTION FROM MAGIC TO LAW
A federal magistrate judge speaks words denouncing forensic science superstitions, as some others in the judiciary attack similar soothsayers, and a Virgina Law Review article expounds on a criminal justice system that can’t keep up with science and lacks tools … Continue reading
The battle to prove coerced confessions and innocence without having DNA to help
Unusual Connecticut Exoneration Centers on Coerced Confession, Not DNA Evidence excerpt: Rosenthal [defense lawyer], citing the University of Michigan Law School National Registry of Exonerations, said this is the 17th Connecticut exoneration and the sixth in the past two years. … Continue reading
Amanda Knox – The Period at the End of the Sentence.
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
Italy’s Court of Cassation has issued a final, formal opinion on the resolution of the Amanda Knox case. It is a resounding exoneration of Knox and Sollecito, and a scathing indictment of a sloppy,…
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The crumbling US criminal defense system – clients are 80% indigent – DAs get 4x more funding –
This data leads one to answer the question: “Why does the US leads in numbers and percentages of incarcerated populations?” Here’s another one: “Why are the numbers of exonerations increasing every year?” and so forth. By Tina Peng NEW ORLEANS The … Continue reading
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