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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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Today – April 5, 2016 – is Arizona Gives Day! Please give!
To Give to the Justice Project, go to: www.azgives.org/c/GivesDay/a/azjusticeproject
Rethinking Reform: Prisons in America – Won students at a Phoenix High School national recognition
Metropolitan Arts Institute is a private charter High School focused on the arts. The School’s filmmaking classes produced the top two winners of StudentCam 2016 for the Western region. Daniela Mock-Zubia and her partner in the project, Sophia Taglienti, wrote, shot and edited a documentary titled Rethinking Reform: Prisons in
National Reentry Week, April 24-30, 2016
National Reentry Week, April 24-30, 2016 “Under the Obama Administration, the Department of Justice has taken major steps to make our criminal justice system more fair, more efficient, and more effective at reducing recidivism and helping formerly incarcerated individuals contribute to their communities. An important part of that task is preparing
TUCSON EVENT – JUBILIEE FOR JUSTICE, March 31, 2016, 6-9 pm
Jubilee for Justice – AJP Event! MARCH 31, 2016, TUCSON, ARIZONA! Please join us at Club Congress located at 311 E. Congress Street in Tucson, Arizona on March 31st! Come listen to live music performed by Salvador Duran and Carlos Azarte, and meet exonerees Khalil Rushdan and Eddie Lowery. The doors
For Arizona’s wrongfully convicted, life after prison brings hardship and hope
Drayton Witt helps his daughter, Ellie Mae Justice Witt, up the jungle gym at Rio Vista Community Park (Photo by Erica L. Lang/Cronkite News) __________ By Erica L. Lang | Cronkite News | POSTED: Mar 3, 2016 For 12 years, Drayton Witt passed his days behind bars, surrounded by rapists,
IN THE NEWS: Woman Exonerated After Serving 10 Years for Manslaughter Conviction
Picture: Vanessa Gathers, 58, with Ken Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, after her manslaughter conviction was vacated on Tuesday. Credit Andrew Kelly for The New York Times By SARAH MASLIN NIR, New York Times – FEB. 23, 2016 In a gray suit, her short hair neatly curled, Vanessa Gathers sat