South African president Zuma says the risk of executing an innocent person can’t be a “stumbling block” to the deterrence of crime- NY exoneree Frank Sterling back in court on child molestation charges
- Video of an interesting speech about wrongful convictions in Canada by famed Canadian innocence lawyer James Lockyear
- New book The Dreyfus Affair tells of one of France’s most notorious wrongful conviction cases
- Kelvin Purdy, imprisoned for murder in Canada, pleased that freedom-fighters AIDWYC are looking into his case
- Bristol professor and Innocence Network UK founder Dr. Michael Naughton explains how protections for the innocence have been eroded in the UK in recent years.
- Interesting article discussing advances in DNA testing in past two decades
- More on the bill in Connecticut that would reform eyewitness identification procedures
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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There are young USA lawyers who are clueless and whose eyes glaze when you ask “Who is or was Alfred Dreyfus ?”
I cannot help but ask what does Judith Armstrong* mean by “its subject is common knowledge” ?
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” … marvels of this book is that although its subject is common knowledge, it takes you on a heart-in-mouth roller-coaster ride.”
Thanks for the post, Mark.
DJB for me and not OACDL
As always, Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
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* Judith Armstrong is a member of the Leadpencils Bookcritics Group. Her latest book is the novel War & Peace and Sonya.