Wednesday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on April 3, 2013 by | Leave a comment
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  • In St. Louis, Rodney Lincoln’s lawyers, from the Midwest Innocence Project, argue that DNA results contradict faulty science and misleading testimony that was key to sending him to prison three decades ago on a double life sentence.
  • Karen A. Goodrow, former Director of the Connecticut Innocence Project, appointed to the bench in CT.
  • The Illinois Appellate Court on Friday granted an evidentiary hearing to a Chicago man, Charles Johnson, who has long claimed he was wrongfully convicted of a 1995 double murder, saying new evidence that defense attorneys claim implicates another man “would probably” lead to his acquittal at a retrial.  The appeals court also took the unusual step of assigning the case to a new trial court judge, agreeing with defense attorneys that Cook County Judge Joseph Kazmierski “appears to have prejudged a central issue” regarding the evidence. Kazmierski had presided over the original trial.
  • New Jersey bill would raise compensation for wrongfully convicted
  • A woman who served 27 years of a life sentence for her husband’s murder — despite not being present when he was killed — was among 87 people granted clemency by Gov. Pat Quinn on Friday.  Peggy Jo Jackson left the Logan Correctional Center on Friday and headed to South Carolina, where she’ll live with her sister and mother and complete her parole, said Erica Nichols-Cook, an attorney with the Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois-Springfield.
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