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Tuesday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on September 1, 2015 by Mark Godsey | Leave a comment

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently ruled that a detective and two forensic odontologists are immune from suit, despite allegations that they conspired to pin Robert Lee Stinson with a murder he did not commit…
California Appeals Court rules that Frank O’Connell and Francisco Carrillo Jr. can sue L.A. county for their wrongful convictions…
The Madras High Court set aside the murder conviction of a man alleged to have killed two women due to the failure of police to prove the charge beyond a reasonable doubt…
Ivan Henry launches wrongful conviction lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court…
The West Virginia Supreme Court will hear arguments Oct. 6 in the case of a Joseph A. Buffey, who is trying to overturn his rape and robbery charges through new DNA testing…

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Posted in Access to DNA testing, Asia, Bite Mark Evidence, Canada, Compensation/Exoneree compensation, DNA, expert testimony, Forensic Scicence, New Evidence

Tagged Bite-Mark Evidence, compensation, DNA, DNA testing, exoneree compensation, forensic science, new evidence, new trial, wrongful conviction, wrongful conviction compensation

Tuesday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Mark Godsey | 1 comment

What’s the right compensation for the wrongfully convicted?…
Editorial: Taking another bite out of junk science in the Texas criminal justice system…
Forensic Science Commission will investigate convictions based on bite marks: “We’re talking about the whole field, the validity of the field of bite marks…The problem justifies an investigation.”
The Montana Supreme Court reverses a lower court decision rejecting Cody Marble’s petition for new trial, calling the lower courts requirement that the new evidence “unquestionably establish innocence” too rigid for non-DNA evidence.
Former Canadian Teacher Neil Bantleman has Indonesian sex conviction overturned…
Raynoldt ‘Jackie’ Windstaan, accused of double murder in Namibia, says confession was a lie…
Liu Renwang, who was tortured into confessing to murder and spent five years imprisoned in a Chinese jail, relives the experience through cartoons…
Prosecutors won’t retry case against Daniel Andersen weeks after conviction tossed in 1980 stabbing.

Posted in Africa, Bite Mark Evidence, Canada, China, Commissions/Innocence Commissions/Governmental Case Review Agencies, Compensation/Exoneree compensation, False confessions, Forensic Scicence, New Evidence, Recantations

Tagged bite mark, Bite-Mark Evidence, compensation, exoneration, exoneree, exoneree compensation, false confession, forensic science, junk science, new trial, New Trial Standard, recantations

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