The Center for the Global Study of Wrongful Conviction at the University of Cincinnati College of Law was created to facilitate and enhance awareness and activism surrounding the problem of wrongful conviction of the innocent around the world. To achieve this goal, the Center will strive to:
- Provide content for the Wrongful Convictions Blog, the goals of which are outlined here;
- Enhance network-building and the sharing of ideas and tools among scholars and activists, in various parts of the world, attempting to combat the scourge of wrongful conviction of the innocent;
- Nurture the growth of attorneys or organizations who are armed to fight wrongful convictions by appropriate means in their particular legal and political environment;
- Assist with funding or locating funding for strategic and impactful scholarship and research on wrongful convictions in areas of the world in need of inquiry on this topic;
- Assist with funding or locating funding for strategic and impactful international conferences on wrongful conviction.
To inquire, contact Center Director Mark Godsey
My husband is a registered sex offender. He was falsely accused in 1984, took a plea and received 5 years probation. In 2010, he was told he was required to register. We hired an attorney and private detective to try and take his accusers back to court to clear his name. The attorney and private detective were of no help to us, and did nothing to help his case. I started researching his accusers and found many other people they and their children and their children had accused of child molestation. I also found that their stepfather had just been sentenced to 60 years for molesting one of his granddaughters(original accusers children) and I found another man(original accusers husband) who was in jail awaiting trial on the same type of charge. That man had been in jail awaiting trial for 4 years. I got in contact with his parents and his attorney. I urged them to tell him not to take a plea. The prosecution was offering 25 years if he took their plea. The day the jury was being picked this mans attorney asked me if I would speak with the prosecutor for this case. I reluctantly did. Unknown to us the prosecution offered probation at the last minute and gave him 5 minutes to decide. The attorney told him nothing about the registry for life, or the treatments for 10 years. The prosecution also told him they were trying him on the least serious case first, and that if the jury found him not guilty on that one they would then go forward with the most serious case which carried multiple life sentences. The prosecution was well aware of all the past allegations of child molestation from his accusers, and still would not drop the charges, it was clear to me at that point they are completely corrupted and so was his court appointed attorney. I was so sure that finally after all these years and all of this familys trail of destruction that they would be forced to admit it under oath, but that did not happen. Please help me stop these people and show someone who is honest in the judicial system what they have been doing for nearly 30 years, Our ultimate goal is to clear my husbands name and all the others these people have caused so much misery to for no good reason.
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My brother is being wrongfully accused of child molestation by a vindictive ex-girlfriend. Is there anyone in the columbia county Appling Georgia area that will go talk to my brother. His name is Mark Yelton and he has no lawyer and has been sitting for at least 6 weeks.