The Innocence Institute of Point Park University

The Innocence Institute's award-winning investigation proved evidence of payments made to key witnesses was secreted from his defense team for years.

Court agrees to new trial in 1995 fire that killed three firefighters The state Superior Court on Friday affirmed a lower-court decision last year awarding a new trial to the man convicted of killing three Pittsburgh firefighters in a 1995 Valentine’s Day fire. Gregory Brown, 37, had his original conviction overturned by Common Pleas Judge Joseph K. Williams III, who…

Twitter chat: What do we owe the wrongfully convicted? | The Rundown | PBS NewsHour What programs should be put in place to ensure quality of life for the wrongfully convicted?

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project is now reviewing cases from all over PA.

Pa. Innocence Project is Headed West! After four years of work developing the foundation for the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, we are now ready to begin reaching out across the entire...

Texas House Bill 166 – "to create a body to review cases in which a defendant has been formally exonerated, in an attempt to discover the root causes of wrongful conviction – no small task in a state that since 1989 has seen well over 100 exonerations."

Rooting Out the Causes of Wrongful Conviction Commission would investigate wrongful convictions

The article describes commonalities between death sentences and parole-ineligible life sentences, including:

The terminal nature of both sentences that necessitates death in prison.

The extreme racial disparities among those who receive either of these sentences.

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Can the science of psychology help prevent wrongful convictions? | Minnesota Public Radio News http://ow.ly/hfUxw

Can the science of psychology help prevent wrongful convictions? What if the biggest flaw within the courts wasn't corruption or bad evidence, but our own brains? How can psychological science improve the justice...

Mr. Cuomo’s Plan on Wrongful Convictions - NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/hbGe5

Mr. Cuomo’s Plan on Wrongful Convictions Gov. Andrew Cuomo should keep pressing for statewide standards on false confessions and witness misidentification.

NY State Bar Is Committed to Preventing Wrongful Convictions http://ow.ly/gXjrQ

NY State Bar Is Committed to Preventing Wrongful Convictions The legal community in New York state is extraordinarily diverse, but regardless of practice setting or area of expertise, our profession is...

Oregon Supreme Court placing burden of proving the veracity of eyewitness ID on prosecutors.

The Catch-22 of Eyewitness ID Noris and Sherl Hilde were camping in the Umpqua National Forest in Oregon when a stranger with a large caliber hunting rifle approached their trailer in 2003. It was dark outside, around 10 p.m., and a shot rang out and hit Sherl while she was looking out the window. Noris called 911, but he was sh...

Bill Would Restrict Informant Testimony in Death Cases Anthony Graves was wrongly convicted and sent to death row in 1994 based largely on the testimony of an alleged accomplice in the fiery murders of six people. The accomplice, while on the ex*****on gurney, admitted he was the lone killer. Ten years later, in 2010, Graves was exonerated.

The Central Park Five’ documents the wrongful r**e conviction of five black teenage boys
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Johnson wins freedom Following four days of witness testimony and two days of jury deliberation at his retrial, Terrell Johnson was acquitted of all charges when the jury disregarded the testimony of discredited eyewitnesses.