Thursday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Mark Godsey | Leave a comment

Northern California Innocence Project breakfast briefing next week on eyewitness identification
After getting first exoneration earlier this week, Colorado Attorney General’s Office will expand its exoneration program (more here)
Man convicted of murder tries for new trial on new expert testimony that State’s trial evidence about his location at time of crime from cellphone records is junk science. Court rejects the new trial bid
Innocence Project about to walk another man out of prison, this time in New Orleans, after DNA test results undermine State’s theory at trial; Booker Diggins takes Alford plea to lesser charges, and Barry Scheck praises the prosecutor
More on the Central Park Jogger case and the ongoing battle over the disclosure of police files in the case
Idaho Innocence Project seeking new trial for a woman who was convicted of killing both her parents after a fight about her boyfriend
Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner’s decade-long fight for DNA testing finally reaches Texas high court

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