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Sharing: Innocence Project Client – Alan Newton Exonerated!
“When you’re incarcerated, it gets harder to defend yourself because you’re really dependent on other people to do all the leg work for you, find the witnesses and make the case.” On July 6, 2006, Alan Newton was exonerated of rape, robbery, and assault charges. He had asked for DNA
EVENT PICTURE: Nicki, Carlos Arzate, Louis Taylor, Lindsay Herf (left to right)
A photo of our good friend and supporter Nicki, Carlos Arzate from the band “Carlos Arzate and the Kind Souls,” our former client Louis Taylor, and former JP DNA Project Manager and current Co-Director of the Wrongful Conviction Clinic at UofA, Lindsay Herf. Taken at a concert where Carlos Arzate
SAVE THE DATE: September 18, 2015 – Book Signing for Bills, Quills, and Stills: An Annotated, Illustrated, and Illuminated History of the Bill of Rights
Book Signing for “Bills, Quills, and Stills: An Annotated, Illustrated, and Illuminated History of the Bill of Rights” & Presentation by Robert J. McWhirter – Just What’s So Exceptional About America?: Rights, “the People”, and the Bill of Rights Where: Changing Hands Bookstore Phoenix, 300 W Camelback Rd, Ste 1 Phoenix, AZ
Can We Trust Crime Forensics?
by Michael Shermer The criminal justice system has a problem, and its name is forensics. This was the message I heard at the Forensic Science Research Evaluation Workshop held May 26–27 at the AAAS headquarters in Washington, D.C. I spoke about pseudoscience but then listened in dismay at how the
ASU criminologists examine why some parolees fail after release from prison
ASU criminology and criminal justice professors Alyssa Chamberlain and Danielle Wallace wanted to find out how the release of large numbers of parolees in a concentrated area affected their chances of returning to prison. To do this, they examined data from three Ohio cities, Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland, from 2000
Bitten by Experts via The Intercept
An article in the The Intercept takes a detailed look at the flawed science of bite mark analysis and the case of Bill Richards, a California man who was convicted in 1997 of murdering his wife, Pamela. […] As numerous cases like Richards’ have emerged over the years, some odontologists
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New York Times: Governor Rebuffs Clemency Board in Murder Case
Ronald Kempfert was a young boy in 1975 when his father was sent to prison for murder, and they had no contact for 28 years. Then, in 2003, Mr. Kempfert heard from a lawyer who had been looking into the case. “Your father is innocent,” said the lawyer, Larry A.
Rockford Man Fights to Get his Brother out of Arizona Prison
An Arizona man with Rockford ties is still in prison for a crime the Clemency Review Board there says he didn’t commit. William Macumber was sent to prison in 1975, part of his family lives in Rockford now and is fighting for his release. Read More
Leveling the playing field for killers
E.J. Montini with the Arizona Republic has a column regarding murderers who were convicted prior to 1973. Before you get all worked up about a proposed law that could benefit 29 convicted killers in Arizona there are three things you should know about it. First, it saves money. Second, it
New Book “True Stories of False Confessions” Contains Accounts of Some of the Most Critical Accounts of False Confessions
In True Stories of False Confessions, Rob Warden and Steve Drizin of the Center on Wrongful Convictions present 39 compelling accounts of false confessions—articles adapted from newspapers, magazines, and books by distinguished writers, including Sydney Schanberg, Alex Kotlowitz, and John Grisham. Read More
The Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest Honors The Justice Project
The Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest honored The Justice Project on May 9, 2009, for providing pro bono representation to indigent Arizona inmates with claims of wrongful conviction. Larry Hammond, Bob Bartels, Andy Silverman, Donna Toland, and Carrie Sperling received the special honor for their dedication to
Interview with Former Executive Director Carrie Sperling
Hear from former executive director, Carrie Sperling, in her interview with Ed Garcia and Jessica Roberts