Tuesday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Mark Godsey | Leave a comment

In race for DA in Los Angeles, candidates sue each other for overstating their prosecutorial credentials in campaign materials, as they each try to puff up their “tough on crime” image to the max
Jennifer Thompson to be convocation speaker at Carleton College in Minnesota
Interesting piece about the ethics of journalism-based Innocence Projects, including Point Park and Medill (Northwestern)
Supreme Court of India limits authority of courts to intervene and quash problematic criminal investigations
Interesting video (in English) about suppression of rights and imprisonment of the innocent in China
Re-trial begins in Connecticut for George Gould, who was previously exonerated on innocence grounds, but then had an appellate court state that the prosecution should get a chance to retry him
Inquiry into prosecutorial misconduct by (now judge) Ken Anderson in the Michael Morton case won’t begin until summer
Pennsylvania Innocence Project hosts eyewitness identification forum tonight

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