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The Arizona Justice Project Has a New Home
At the College of Law, entering students are taught that “possession is 9/10th of the law.” The Justice Project is now in possession of an office overlooking the Law School’s central rotunda. The Project is here, and here to stay.
The Arizona Justice Project Names Its First Executive Director
The Arizona Justice Project named its first executive director, Carrie Sperling, in January 2008. Sperling brings over a decade of experience in civil rights litigation and post-conviction relief to the Project. She was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1992 and began her career as an associate in the litigation
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Former juror in Glossip case tells Fox 25 their verdict would change now.
A former juror who joined 11 others in convicting and condemning Richard Glossip to death says recent revelations demand a stay of execution, or more. This news comes following a Fox 25 Investigation that reached out to the jurors who took part in the case. Fox 25 is withholding the
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