Drayton Witt pauses for a moment at his home Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016, in Surprise, Ariz. An Arizona judge in 2012 dismissed a murder charge against Witt, after he spent 10 years in prison, after the county medical examiner said developments in the understanding of shaken baby syndrome and some of the conditions that mimic …
AUSTIN, Texas — A former prosecutor who used false testimony and withheld evidence to send a now-exonerated man to Texas’ death row has lost an appeal to overturn his disbarment. The Dallas Morning News (http://bit.ly/1TPB1fq ) reports that the Board of Disciplinary Appeals on Monday upheld the decision of the State Bar of Texas to …
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Did you know that most 2015 exonerees who falsely confessed to murder were kids, mentally disabled or both: See full chart: http://bit.ly/1SMHdFg #falseconfession
EXONERATIONS IN 2015 The National Registry of Exonerations, February 3, 2016 2015 had the most exonerations with false confessions & guilty pleas of any year in history. Read the full report here: http://bit.ly/1SkFxRO #wrongfulconvictions
Feel the immeasurable pain and suffering of 3 men who were wrongfully convicted via Dateline NBC. “It’s like I’m swimming against the current.”- Carlos Perez “And then it takes you 15 years or better to prove your innocence.” -Devon Ayers Dateline Video: Voices of the Exonerated
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that those sentenced as teenagers to mandatory life imprisonment for murder must have a chance to argue that they should be released from prison. The ruling expanded the court’s 2012 decision that struck down mandatory life terms without parole for juveniles and said it must be applied retroactively to what …
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“One of the central themes of the Netflix NFLX -3.13% documentary Making a Murderer was the imbalance of resources between the prosecution in the Steven Avery case, and Avery’s own defense team. But with a few brief exceptions, there wasn’t much attempt to actually examine it in terms of dollars and cents. The numbers do …
“Rethinking Reform” calls attention to the complex prison system in the United States, and examines the repercussions that mass incarceration has on individuals and families. Video: http://www.viddler.com/v/c882514e?secret=50540044 Pics from the film:
By Keith A. Findley January 15 Keith A. Findley is co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Guilty or innocent? Viewers addicted to the Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer” are fiercely debating the case of Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey. In separate trials, the two were …
Minors are psychologically susceptible to being coerced into false confessions and yet frequently interrogated without parents or lawyers around. New details about the case against Steven Avery keep emerging as U.S. audiences flock to Making a Murderer, the Netflix series documenting Avery’s path from wrongfully convicted inmate to free man suing the government to suspect in …
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