Hearing held yesterday in in Texas in case of mother convicted of murdering her child by forcing him to eat cajun seasoning until he died of sodium overdose. Mother has always maintained innocence and claims ineffective assistance of counsel and non-disclosure of crucial evidence by the prosecution- Recap of the Brady hearing yesterday in DC involving the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
- Police claim 2005 evidence preservation law in Wisconsin is now causing storage problems
- Listen to John Grisham’s radio interview about his work for Innocence Projects
- Death penalty will be on California ballot in November
- The Good Wife TV show has an episode this week based loosely on the Michael Morton wrongful conviction and exoneration
- Janis Puracal, sister of Jason Puracal (case discussed here and here), discusses her visit with her brother in a Nicaraguan prison
- Innocence Project fights for exoneration in alleged false confession case in DC
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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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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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