Justin Brooks
Professor, California Western School of Law; Director,
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Wrongful Convictions Cases & Materials 2d ed. here
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Daniel Ehighalua
Nigerian Barrister
Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Montclair University
Carey D. Hoffman
Director of Digital Communications,
Ohio Innocence Project@OIPCommunicati1
Shiyuan Huang
Associate Professor, Shandong University Law School; Visiting Scholar, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology, University of California-Irvine
Phil Locke
Science and Technology Advisor, Ohio Innocence Project and Duke Law Wrongful Convictions Clinic
Dr. Carole McCartney
Reader in Law, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University
Nancy Petro
Author and Advocate
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False Justice here
Professor, Faculty of Law, Konan University Innocence Project Japan
Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University; Executive Director, Arizona Innocence Project
Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway
Author and Private Investigator
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Presumed Guilty here
Wrongful Convictions Blog 
Mr. Yant, thanks for the Post and for keeping a fire lit under the topic of “False Confessions” and the multitudes of tactics utilized to obtain them.
Regarding the art of soliciting F.Cs’. – Did you know that attorneys’ / lawyers’ are the leading cause of F.Cs’ (especially in Harris County, Texas)? And that unnecessary plea bargaining is a F.C. ? Most folks don’t know that when an innocent human is on probation and is subsequently arrested on a new unrelated charge, he / she can & will be lied to by their very own (both: appointed and / or hired) so-called Criminal Defense Attorney in order to avoid the work involved in completing a Jury Trial to verdict (and move on to the next case). To this day, I’ve never met another human that was aware that the Law allows ‘anyone’ with a Law Degree to be a ‘CDL’ for a day or two. Yep, that’s correct. File no paperwork or file fake pre-trial motions and do absolutely no investigation, plea bargain at lunch or even earlier and suffer no consequences at all. That’s the joke and no one has put 2 and 2 together and figured out that F.Cs. is simply sugar coated supplemental wording for Plea Bargain abuse and the only way it can happen is if the Judge is in on it.
Most folks either don’t know or simply don’t want to talk about how False Confessions and Plea Bargaining are associated. I wouldn’t know about it if I didn’t have the opportunity to be the very first human to have a hired attorney convince me to stop the Jury Trial during lunch recess on day one to plea bargain. “Guilty or Not – you are going to prison just for being arrested while on probation, It was revoked the minute you were arrested.” Also, I’m apparently the very first human to be taken from the court room holding cell to the Judge’s Chambers to sign some papers and told not to talk (“say, yes or no only”).
*When a person is 1000% innocent and everyone knows it (and the police incident report clearly shows that includes the crime victim himself) and the Judge allows a trial to stop at lunch recess and the charge of Agg. Robbery remains the same and 10 years is handed out on top of 5 years for the Probation – you simply have a forced (advised) False Confession in the form of an unheard of secrete Plea Bargain. Anyone seeking any form of so-called Post Conviction relief should understand up front – When it is void of DNA & not a Death Row case, it equates to ‘No-Money’ and that means ‘Go-Away’. Despite the nation’s attorneys’, so-called innocence projects’, the Texas Board of Pardons & Paroles (Rs. & Ds.) and the Harris County Conviction Review Section actively avoiding cases’ like mine to vet where there are no dollar signs (or too old 1984? ) I’m simply enticed to make the “Griffith Plea” a saturation topic of 2013.
*That a friggin promise! Thanks.
PNG Team Member – Thomas R. Griffith