Despite their undisputed unreliability, Texas Court of Appeals says polygraph results can be admissible in some instances when the results form part of the basis of an expert witness’s opinion- Inmate in Australia who claims innocence on hunger strike to protest lack of access to documents in his case
- Bridget McCormick of the Michigan Innocence Clinic endorsed by the Democrats as a candidate for Michigan Supreme Court
- At the innocence-related conference in Australia this week, some call for Australia to create a national innocence commission
- The new DA in Las Vegas claimed during is campaign that he would be open-minded and would do things differently than his predecessor; the Innocence Project’s new application for DNA testing in a murder case is his first chance to put his money where his mouth is
- Frequent press regarding wrongful convictions adds to stress of being a juror in Canada; some jurisdictions now offer post-trial counseling for jurors
- Conviction overturned, Mike Hash’s family anxiously awaits his return
- After Steven Barnes was exonerated in New York, the local prosecutor has voluntarily implemented many innocence-related reforms
- A review of the new documentary outlining the alleged innocence of the man known as the “Lockerbie bomber.”
Blog Editor
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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