Alaska legislator introduces bill to improve eyewitness identification practices- Bill introduced in Wisconsin would increase exoneree compensation from $5,000 per year in prison (capped at a total of $25,000) to $50,000 per year with no cap. More here
- On the heels of this year’s documentary on the West Memphis 3 being nominated for an Academy Award (and not winning), Sony Classics has just purchased the rights to another documentary about the same case. This film, entitled West of Memphis, was produced by Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) and Amy Berg. It is highly acclaimed already, having premiered at Sundance last month, and is expected to compete for an Oscar next year. That would be two years in a row that the West Memphis 3 would be featured on the red carpet.
- More interesting articles on the Michael Hash habeas win this week from the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project here and here.
- Downstate Illinois Innocence Project examines 1998 murder case from Bloomington
- Innocence Project could get position on new board in charge of fixing crime lab in Houston
- The Exonerated (play) still opening hearts and minds in Florida
- Tim Cole, first person exonerated posthumously by DNA, gets state-sponsored historical marker by his grave in Texas.
- In an emotional ceremony, Florida governor signs bill giving $1.35 million in compensation to exoneree Bill Dillon.
- Exoneree Daryl Hunt urges Kansas to push through its DNA backlog
- Nebraska Innocence Project seeks DNA testing in 1975 murder case
- Montana Innocence Project says prosecutors intimidated recanting witness to “un-recant”
- California Innocence Project Director and blog contributing editor Justin Brooks joins fight to free American Jason Puracal wrongfully convicted in Nicaragua. More here
- Exoneree Herman Atkins and California Innocence Project Director Justin Brooks stump against the death penalty in California and try to get its repeal on the ballot
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Mark Godsey
Daniel P. & Judith L. Carmichael Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law; Director, Center for the Global Study of Wrongful Conviction; Director, Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project
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Justin Brooks
Professor, California Western School of Law; Director, California Innocence ProjectOrder his book Wrongful Convictions Cases & Materials 2d ed. here
Cheah Wui Ling
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Daniel Ehighalua
Nigerian Barrister
Jessica S. Henry
Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Montclair University
Carey D. Hoffman
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Shiyuan Huang
Associate Professor, Shandong University Law School; Visiting Scholar, University of Cincinnati College of Law
C Ronald Huff
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
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Nancy Petro
Author and Advocate Order her book False Justice here
Kana Sasakura
Professor, Faculty of Law, Konan University Innocence Project Japan
Dr. Robert Schehr
Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University; Executive Director, Arizona Innocence Project
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