- Families of four black men convicted of rape by all-white jury in the 1940s seek pardon from Florida governor
- The early warning signs of a wrongful conviction
- New Zealand exoneree David Bain could receive $2 million after judge rules he is eligible for compensation
- Actor Johnny Depp said Saturday he and Damien Echols, one of three men who claimed to have been wrongly convicted for 1993 satanic ritual murders, got tattoos to mark their special bond after Echols was released from prison last year. “There was an instant connection, some brotherly kind of love there,” Depp told a press conference at the world premiere in Toronto of Amy Berg’s film “West of Memphis,” which chronicles the miscarriage of justice that sent three purportedly innocent men to jail.
- For four years now, Robert J. Wilkes has insisted he did not hurt his infant son the night baby Gabriel fell suddenly and fatally ill. A jury didn’t buy it. Wilkes was sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing the 3 1/2 -month-old boy in what a prosecutor called “a violent and repetitive and rageful act.” Now the Montana Innocence Project is appealing Wilkes’ conviction, saying his public defender was ineffective and that new evidence shows Gabriel suffered from a rare and commonly fatal liver disorder. “There can be no greater tragedy in this world than the untimely death of an infant. Nothing can be done to bring Gabriel back to his family,” it wrote in the appeal filed last week in Missoula County District Court. “But just as surely, Robert Wilkes was unjustly convicted of a terrible crime. That wrong can now be righted.”
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 | Email | ProfileContributing Editors
Justin Brooks
Professor, California Western School of Law; Director, California Innocence Project | Email
Cheah Wui Ling
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore Email | Profile
Daniel Ehighalua
Nigerian Barrister; Project Director, Innocence Project Nigeria Email
C Ronald Huff
Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology, University of California-Irvine Email | Profile
Phil Locke
Science and Technology Advisor, Ohio Innocence Project and Duke Law Wrongful Convictions Clinic Email
Dr. Carole McCartney
Reader in Law, Faculty of Business and Law, Northumbria University Email
Nancy Petro
Author and Advocate
Kana Sasakura
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Konan University; Visiting Scholar, University of Washington School of Law; Innocence Project Northwest (IPNW)
Dr. Robert Schehr
Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University; Executive Director, Arizona Innocence Project Email | Profile
Shiyuan Huang
Associate Professor, Shandong University Law School; Visiting Scholar, University of Cincinnati College of Law Email | Profile
Ulf Stridbeck
Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway
Martin Yant
Author and Private Investigator Email | Profile-
