- Reward for information leading to the arrest of the party or parties responsible for the crimes in the West Memphis 3 case increased to $200,000
- John Ramsey, father of JonBenet Ramsay who lived for years under the cloud of having murdered his own daughter before being exonerated, writes of his ordeal
- Negotiations on innocence reforms and DNA database expansion in NY nearing the end; vote coming up soon
- Michael Wayne Hash (case previously covered here) set free yesterday
- Northern California Innocence Project exoneree Franky Carrillo enjoys his 1 year anniversary of the day he was freed
- More on the Maryland case where the Innocence Project is seeking exoneration in a conviction that involved junk science and state’s “expert witness” falsifying his credentials
- How juror misconduct-like referring to Ouija boards for guidance-results in miscarriages of justice in Australia
- Connecticut considers repealing death penalty, in part because of wrongful convictions; issues arise in Missouri as well
- Shujaa Graham, the 20th Death Row exoneree, to speak in Kentucky
- Boise State sends DNA expert Dr. Greg Hampikian out on the speakers circuit (he spoke at Cincinnati this year and those in the audience said it was one of the best presentations they had ever attended)
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 | Email | ProfileContributing Editors
Justin Brooks
Professor, California Western School of Law; Director, California Innocence Project | Email
Cheah Wui Ling
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore Email | Profile
Daniel Ehighalua
Nigerian Barrister; Project Director, Innocence Project Nigeria Email
C Ronald Huff
Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology, University of California-Irvine Email | Profile
Phil Locke
Science and Technology Advisor, Ohio Innocence Project and Duke Law Wrongful Convictions Clinic Email
Dr. Carole McCartney
Reader in Law, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University Email
Nancy Petro
Author and Advocate
Kana Sasakura
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Konan University; Visiting Scholar, University of Washington School of Law; Innocence Project Northwest (IPNW)
Dr. Robert Schehr
Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University; Executive Director, Arizona Innocence Project Email | Profile
Shiyuan Huang
Associate Professor, Shandong University Law School; Visiting Scholar, University of Cincinnati College of Law Email | Profile
Ulf Stridbeck
Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway
Martin Yant
Author and Private Investigator Email | Profile-
