Justin Brooks
Professor, California Western School of Law; Director,
California Innocence ProjectOrder his book
Wrongful Convictions Cases & Materials 2d ed. here
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Daniel Ehighalua
Nigerian Barrister
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
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

Professor, Faculty of Law, Konan University Innocence Project Japan
Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University; Executive Director, Arizona Innocence Project
Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway
Author and Private Investigator
Order his book
Presumed Guilty here
I was disturbed by the judgmental tone of Alexander Baron’s analysis of the National Registry of Exonerations. He seems to attribute epidemic of fabricated child sexual abuse allegations to “loony feminists,” which in my experience is rarely the case.
Baron goes on to argue that Cathleen Crowell, who as a confused teenager falsely accused Gary Dotson of rape, should have been prosecuted for her act. Baron ignores the fact that it was only because Crowell came forward — an courageious act for which she was subjected to much ridicule — to admit her lie that Dotson ever had a chance to be cleared. Even worse, Baron reports with apparent satisfaction that Crowell “was held to account to a higher power” when she died of breast cancer in 2008.
The most important thing I take away from the evidence presented in the National Registry of Exonerations is that we should always be careful about rushing to judgment in mean-spirited abandon without all the facts. Baron apparently missed the lesson.