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03/25/2015

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

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…

11/13/2014

What programs should be put in place to ensure quality of life for the wrongfully convicted?

04/02/2013

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

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

03/08/2013

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."

Commission would investigate wrongful convictions

03/08/2013

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.

01/30/2013

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

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...

01/28/2013

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

Gov. Andrew Cuomo should keep pressing for statewide standards on false confessions and witness misidentification.

01/19/2013

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

The legal community in New York state is extraordinarily diverse, but regardless of practice setting or area of expertise, our profession is...

12/19/2012

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

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...

11/29/2012

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.

11/29/2012

The Central Park Five’ documents the wrongful r**e conviction of five black teenage boys
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09/13/2012

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.