At a community meeting in Culpeper, Virginia, discussion over corruption in the Michael Hash case gets heated between sheriff and reps of U of Virginia Innocence Clinic (more here)- Eric Wilson of the Norfolk Four seeks to have sex offender classification removed
- Kentucky only state with a DNA testing statute that limits right to DNA testing to those on death row. New bill would fix that and would expand access to bring Kentucky “back in line” with her sister states.
- Retired SCOTUS Justice John Paul Stevens reviews a new book about police perjury and possible wrongful conviction entitled The Rape Case: A Young Lawyer’s Struggle for Justice in the 1950s
- Wall Street Journal says prosecutors who hid evidence in the Senator Ted Stevens scandal should be severely penalized
- Christopher Jefferies, an English man wrongfully arrested in a murder, talks about how the press assumed he was guilty and vilified him
- Great article from Kentucky on unreliability of snitches
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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
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