Exoneree Dale Helmig speaks at Illinois State University today; and exoneree Juan Rivera to speak today at Northern Illinois University (more here)- Expert warns current risk of wrongful conviction in UK as high now as it ever was; faulty science the greatest risk at the current time
- Cuts in funding for interpreters in the UK leading to miscarriages of justice in current cases, warns interpreter group
- Pennsylvania urged to pass an exoneree compensation statute
- The battle in the U.S. to curb solitary confinement
- Public defender in Cincinnati, Ohio blasted by independent report
- In an era when all we see is budget decreases for public defenders, New York state’s approved budget this year has an increase in funding for public defenders
- Dying “Lockerbie Bomber,” who may be an innocent man, celebrates 60th birthday with family and friends
- Downstate Illinois Innocence Project sponsors event with author Scott Turow (more here)
- A group of trade union pickets in the UK who were jailed nearly 40 years ago are seeking to have their convictions overturned on the grounds that the then Conservative government interfered with the judicial process.
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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