Texas House considers eyewitness identification reforms- Lawyers for the Cardiff 3, who were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned in Wales, seek to have a high court judge order a public inquiry into the collapse of the criminal trials against the cops who brought the false charges against them
- We have previously blogged about the exciting win that Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project director Shawn Ambrust got in federal habeas last week in the Michael Hash case. UPDATE: They AG in Virginia will not appeal the habeas grant, and is asking for an independent prosecutor to determine if Hash should be retried.
- Abolishing the broken machinery of capital punishment was the right choice for Illinois
- New novel, A Promise of Safekeeping, about a wrongful conviction
- The reporter who wrote 40 stories on the Kerry Max Cook case through the years writes of the case and his experiences in covering it
- New comprehensive book about wrongful convictions in the UK to be released next week
- Connecticut Supreme Court rules that officials can force feed inmate who was starving himself to protest his alleged wrongful conviction
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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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Contributing Editors
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
Director of Digital Communications, Ohio Innocence Project@OIPCommunicati1
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
Reader in Law, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University
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
Ulf Stridbeck
Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway
Martin Yant
Author and Private Investigator Order his book Presumed Guilty here-
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