The effort to free a man who was convicted of raping and murdering a court clerk in her south St. Louis home 30 years ago moves to a Cole County, Missouri courtroom yesterday. George Allen confessed to killing Mary Bell in her LaSalle Park home in 1982, but attorneys with the Bryan Cave law firm and the Innocence Project argued that DNA and new blood and fingerprint evidenceprove that Allen is innocent- Article on death row exoneree Kirk Bloodsworth and his ordeal
- Barry George, who was wrongly convicted of the murder of BBC TV presenter Jill Dando, can fight a test case for compensation, a judge has ruled. Mr George, who spent eight years in prison before being cleared after a retrial, will be one of five lead cases to be heard at the High Court. They will help establish the boundaries in the UK of what amounts to a miscarriage of justice meriting compensation
- Kate Beckinsale and Nick Nolte to star in new wrongful conviction film called The Trials of Cate McCall
- New novel Laughter on the Wind (published by Balboa Press), weaves a story of how a wrongful conviction leads one man to his destiny
- Group gathered in front of Dallas County Courthouse yesterday to urge DA Craig Watkins to stop employing capital punishment because of risk of wrongful execution
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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