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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

Wednesday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Mark Godsey | Leave a comment

Paddy Hill claims IRA terrorist took a 10 minute bus ride to a bar before raising alarm about Birmingham pub bombs…
People’s Court orders VND23-billion compensation for wrongful conviction…
Drawings of Police Torture Seize China’s Attention…
Mainland police ‘beat false confession’ from alleged Hong Kong editor attacker…
Please join Northern California Innocence Project and the Santa Clara University School of Law for a free symposium: In The Interest of Justice: Conviction Review Programs…

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Posted in Asia, China, Compensation/Exoneree compensation, Events, False confessions, IRA, ireland, North America, Western Europe

Tagged compensation, exoneree compensation, false confession, miscarriage of justice, police misconduct

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