Showing posts with label The Innocence Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Innocence Project. Show all posts
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Happy Mother's Day

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Leroy Harris will be spending Mother's Day with his mom today for the first time in 29 years. Last November, Mr. Harris was released ...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Fighting to keep innocent men behind bars

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Over in Kentucky we have the latest example of a prosecutor forgetting that seeking justice, not obtaining convictions, is his ethical duty....
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

New in the blawgosphere

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There's a new blog in town. Mark Godsey, a lawprof at the University of Cincinnati Law School, is the editor of The Wrongful Convictions...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Attacking the messenger

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Evidence mounting that a man convicted of murder might be innocent? Here's an idea -- go after the people responsible for uncovering tha...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Convicted rapist exonerated by DNA

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Ernest Sonnier who was released from prison last August when evidence surfaced that he had been wrongly convicted of a 1985 rape was exoner...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Manufacturing memories

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According to this article in the new issue of Scientific American, researchers at the University of California, Irvine, were able to manufa...
Saturday, June 6, 2009

Texas Governor lacks authority to issue posthumous pardon

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Back in February I wrote about the sad case of Timothy Cole , a young man wrongly convicted of rape who was exonerated ten years after his d...
Saturday, February 7, 2009

Forensic "science" under fire

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According to the New York Times , a report to be issued this month by the National Academy of Sciences will be a "sweeping critique...
Friday, February 6, 2009

DNA testing clears Texas man who died behind bars

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Travis County District Judge Charles Baird has ordered the posthumous expunctio n of Timothy Cole's record. Mr. Cole died in prison wh...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Interrogation and false confessions

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I came across some interesting articles on police interrogation methods and false confessions after my trial was continued this morning (se...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Is the State of Texas guilty of murder?

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In 2004, Cameron Willingham , a Corsicana auto mechanic convicted of setting the fire that killed his 1-year-old twins and 2-year-old stepd...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

A response to Kelly Siegler

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So K elly Sie gler , late of the Harris County District Attorney's Office (after a failed run for the office in the Republican primary)...