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The big paradox of justice in America, by Justin Roman
“There were about 250,000 jail beds in the early 1980s, and today there are more than 800,000 … Prosecutors have more beds to fill and they are doing so, and as a result more arrestees find themselves serving prison sentences than ever before. And some of them may be innocent.”
Arizona Justice Project – And the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit Program
Arizona Justice Project – And the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit Program Dollar-for-Dollar – Your contribution helps to identify and free the wrongfully convicted or those who have suffered a manifest injustice and are indigent.
Arizona Horizon – ASU Post-Conviction Clinic and the Arizona Justice Project
Host: Ted Simons ASU Post-conviction Clinic Arizona State University’s Post-conviction Clinic seeks to help inmates who are innocent but have been convicted of a crime. The clinic recently received a new grant from the National Institute of Justice. Katherine Puzauskas, executive director of the Arizona Justice Project, and Robert Dormady,
Advances in DNA Testing Could Put Thousands of Texas Cases in Legal Limbo, By Meagan Flynn, Houston Press
Advances in DNA Testing Could Put Thousands of Texas Cases in Legal Limbo By Meagan Flynn , Houston Press Five days after a Houston woman was raped by two men, she was driving down the street when she spotted 16-year-old Josiah Sutton. She thought she recognized his hat, and then immediately identified
Justice Department about to free 6,000 prisoners, largest one-time release, By Sari Horwitz, Washington Post
By Sari Horwitz, Washington Post The Justice Department is set to release about 6,000 inmates early from prison — the largest ever one-time release of federal prisoners — in an effort to reduce overcrowding and provide relief to drug offenders who received harsh sentences over the past three decades. The
Criminally Yours: Lying To Get To The Truth, By Toni Messina
Above the Law writer takes a stand against police lying in interrogations. Criminally Yours: Lying To Get To The Truth By Toni Messina A hot topic in criminal law is “false confessions.” Why would someone ever admit to a crime he didn’t commit? How could anyone be so naïve or
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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
The Arizona Justice Project and Amazon Smile
What is Amazon Smile? It is another way you can help the Arizona Justice Project! To Join: http://smile.amazon.com/
The staggering number of wrongful convictions in America
Picture: Susan Mellen is exonerated of murder by Superior Court Judge Mark Arnold in Torrance, Calif. At right, her attorney Deirdre O’Connor. (Brad Graverson/Associated Press) Sam Gross, the editor of the Registry, reflects on wrongful convictions in an Oped: ” We can do better, of course — for misdemeanors, for
Hurry Up and Wait for Justice: The Struggles of Innocent Prisoners
By Lorenzo Johnson When people hear about wrongfully convicted prisoners, they often ask why these individuals end up spending so much time in prison before they are exonerated. For the wrongfully convicted, the judicial system has failed twice – once in winning the wrongful conviction, but also in intentionally delaying
A high-ranking Obama official just called for the “eradication” of bite mark evidence
By Radley Balko This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is sponsoring a conference in Arlington, Va., called the “International Symposium on Forensic Science Error Management – Detection, Measurement and Mitigation.” NIST is the government agency that’s attempting to carve out some standards and best practices for the
This Friday – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts – Carlos Arzate and the Kind Souls
We hope you can join us this Friday at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts to see Carlos Arzate and the Kind Souls play. As you may know, Carlos Arzate wrote a powerful song about Louis Taylor after Louis’s release and Lesley Hoyt-Croft created an incredibly moving music video