- It looks like the Scottish government will make an exception to the privacy law and will release the 800-page report showing that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, known as the Lockerbie Bomber, was likely innocent
- Wrongful convictions one of Florida’s greatest shames
- Innocence Network UK client Gary Critchley from Birmingham, England enjoys first days of freedom after serving 31 years in prison for a murder he claims he did not commit. While Gary was released on parole rather than exonerated, INUK will continue fighting for his exoneration.
- Exoneree Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in Australia raising awareness of wrongful convictions
- Nice article about the Michael Wayne Hash habeas win and the persistence of Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project Director Shawn Ambrust that led to the win
- New Zealand’s controversial David Bain appears on TV3’s 60 Minutes to talk about life after exoneration and further proclaim his innocence
- Former Justice of the Florida Supreme Court speaks out and says Florida should require juror unanimity in death sentences
- More on New York governor Cuomo’s refusal to include innocence reforms in his DNA database expansion bill
- Amnesty International report on arrests and detentions of innocents in Iran to crush political dissent
- American Bar Association released its report on the state of the death penalty in Missouri
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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 Order HereContributing Editors
Justin Brooks
Professor, California Western School of Law; Director, California Innocence ProjectOrder his book Wrongful Convictions Cases & Materials 2d ed. hereCheah Wui Ling
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of SingaporeDaniel Ehighalua
Nigerian BarristerJessica S. Henry
Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Montclair UniversityCarey D. Hoffman
Director of Digital Communications, Ohio Innocence Project@OIPCommunicati1Shiyuan Huang
Associate Professor, Shandong University Law School; Visiting Scholar, University of Cincinnati College of LawC Ronald Huff
Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology, University of California-IrvinePhil Locke
Science and Technology Advisor, Ohio Innocence Project and Duke Law Wrongful Convictions ClinicDr. Carole McCartney
Reader in Law, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria UniversityNancy Petro
Author and Advocate Order her book False Justice hereKana Sasakura
Professor, Faculty of Law, Konan University Innocence Project JapanDr. Robert Schehr
Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University; Executive Director, Arizona Innocence ProjectUlf Stridbeck
Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, NorwayMartin Yant
Author and Private Investigator Order his book Presumed Guilty here
Here’s some information about the shameful omission (from the Australian conference Rubin Hurricane Carter is attending), of one of Australia’s most high profile (and continuing), miscarriages of justice . . .
http://womenforschapelle.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/schapelle-corby-rubin-hurricane-carter.html