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Wednesday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Liza Dietrich | Leave a comment

The Columbus Dispatch: Columbus to pay $20,000 after loss in police public-records case…
Florida (audio): New Bill Would Change Lineup, Eyewitness Interview Procedures To Reduce Wrong IDs…
Boston Globe: How far should state leaders go in reforming justice?…
Providence Journal: Second chance for criminal justice reform bills in Rhode Island Assembly…
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Bill seeks $1.45 million for man wrongly imprisoned 33 years for 1982 rape and murder…
Taipei times: Wrongful polygraph conviction cases to be reinvestigated…
Illinois News Network: State budget impasse means no payments for wrongly convicted inmates…
Daily Mail: Wilbert Jones, who is now seeking a new trial in 1971 rape case, claims state hid evidence…
Daily News: New York City to pay $2.9M in legal fees to lawyers of man wrongfully convicted of sex assault in 1985…
Cleveland Plain Dealer (photo slide show): Ohio’s 33 wrongfully convicted prisoners who served 10 years or more…

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Posted in Compensation/Exoneree compensation, New Evidence, Post-conviction relief, Reforming/Improving the system, Uncategorized

Tagged Access to public records, Caster, compensation legislation, Criminal Justice Reform, exoneree compensation, Ohio, Ohio Innocence Project, Public Records, Public Records Act, Public Records Act Law, Wilbert Jones, wrongful conviction, wrongful conviction compensation

Tuesday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Liza Dietrich | Leave a comment

The Connecticut Innocence Project honored for 20 years of work to exonerate wrongly convicted…
San Jose Police Department makes accountability push with slew of training, data initiatives…
Henry Rodriguez was released on bail Monday after 18 years in prison, another felony case upended because of questions related to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office’s use of jailhouse informants…
Gideon v. Wainwright in the Age of a Public Defense Crisis…
Malcolm Scott and De’Marchoe Carpenter freed after 20 years in prison, declared innocent…
How Can America Fix Its Crime Labs?…
Bill Limits Monetary Awards for Exonerated Inmates in Conneticut…

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Posted in Compensation/Exoneree compensation, Editorials/Opinion, Police conduct (good and bad), Reforming/Improving the system, Uncategorized, wrongful conviction

Tagged compensation legislation, Connecticut Innocence Project, exoneration, exoneree compensation, forensic science, Gideon v. Wainwright, Police Accountability, police misconduct

Friday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Mark Godsey | 1 comment

Sustained Injustices: Three Exonerees Speak to 60 Minutes about Life after Wrongful Convictions…
SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE ISSUES AN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE IN SUZANNE JOHNSON CASE: Johnson has been incarcerated since 1997 for a crime she did not commit…
After wrongful felony conviction, NBA hopeful Darrell Williams gets assist on fulfilling dream…
Panel OKs $851K for wrongfully imprisoned Ohio men…
Reasonable Doubts: Reopening The Case Of Darrell ‘Diamond’ Jones…
Legislators endorse higher payouts for wrongful convictions…
Texas guests at State of the Union are also symbols…

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Posted in Compensation/Exoneree compensation, Uncategorized, wrongful conviction

Tagged california innocence project, compensation, compensation legislation

Friday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Mark Godsey | 1 comment

Lawyer Marilyn Sandford blasts Crown for withholding evidence in Ivan Henry case…
60 Minutes: The Dangers of Law Enforcement’s Use of Confidential Informants…
Johnny Hincapie Explains Why He Confessed To Infamous 1990 Tourist Murder…
The Waukegan City Council approved this week $65,000 to cover its end of an overall $990,000 civil settlement with Bennie Starks, a Chicago man who was convicted in 1986 of rape and spent 20 years in prison before he was exonerated by DNA evidence…
After spending more than 15 years behind bars in Kansas for murder,Floyd Bledsoe has been released from prison, and prosecutors say it appears his brother was the one responsible…
Journey to Freedom: Richard Raugust served more than 18 years in prison for the murder of his best friend, a cold-blooded crime he insists he didn’t commit. With his conviction overturned and his release from custody, he hopes to finally clear his name…
Wrongly convicted ‘Central Park Five’ defendant makes gift renaming CU-Boulder’s Innocence Project…
Jesse Friedman denied bid for records by in attempt to overturn his conviction for molestation…
Guidelines coming soon for Delaware police interrogations…

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Posted in Compensation/Exoneree compensation, Exonerations, False confessions, Police conduct (good and bad), Prosecutorial conduct (good and bad), Reforming/Improving the system, Uncategorized, wrongful conviction

Tagged Bennie Starks, central park five, compensation, compensation legislation, confidential informants, exoneration, exoneree, exoneree compensation, false confession, false confessions, Floyd Bledsoe, forensic reform, Interrogation, Ivan Henry, Johnny Hincapie, police interrogations, police misconduct, Richard Raugust, wrongful conviction

Friday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Mark Godsey | 1 comment

Leaked Documents Show Alabama Police Planted Drugs, Guns on Innocent Black Men in Decades-long Scheme…
Only eyewitness in 1982 St. Louis murder says she`s recanting…
Criminal justice in Japan: Forced to confess…
Texas Enacts Legislation to Reduce Wrongful Convictions…
Connie Oakes’ murder conviction based on ‘legal fiction,’ says new appeal filing…
Vietnamese man jailed for 17 years has murder conviction overturned…
B.C. judge won’t let rape support group argue Ivan Henry is guilty during his compensation lawsuit for wrongful conviction…
Ohio Court rules the Dean Gillispie cannot be re-tried in 1988 case,
Prosecutor vows to file an appeal…

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Posted in Compensation/Exoneree compensation, Eyewitness identification, False confessions, New Evidence, Police conduct (good and bad), Post-conviction relief, Uncategorized, wrongful conviction

Tagged compensation, compensation legislation, compensation; reintegration; post-exoneration issues, criminal justice legislation, eyewitness identification, eyewitness reliability, false confession, police misconduct, Post-conviction relief, reform legislation, texas, Vietnam, wrongful conviction

Thursday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Mark Godsey | 1 comment

Photos from Steve Cheney’s release yesterday…
Justice for Illinois Wrongfully Convicted 3rd Annual Freedom Ride for Justice will be taking place this weekend…
David McCallum, who spent 29 years behind bars for an overturned murder conviction, sues a detective and the widow of another investigator who he says put him in prison…
Wrongful convictions in Canada discussed…
From NPR: Why Are Kids More Likely to Give False Confessions?…
Governor Approves NCIP-Sponsored Bill Increasing Exoneree Compensation…

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Posted in Compensation/Exoneree compensation, Exonerations, False confessions, Legislation, wrongful conviction

Tagged compensation, compensation legislation, exoneree, false confession, wrongful conviction

Monday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Mark Godsey | 1 comment

Hawaii Innocence Project has new leadership that’s hoping to free more innocent people…
Prison Debate Team Beats Harvard Debate Team in National Competition: Now You Know Why Innocent People are on Death Row…
Connecticut judge grants Crystal D. Weime new trial after forensic dentist calls own testimony ‘junk science’…
From Ireland: THE TALE OF A QUESTIONABLE CONVICTION, ON SCREEN…
Sedrick Courtney and the State of Oklahoma have not been able to reach a settlement agreement in his wrongful conviction compensation suit…
Why Chinese Courts Are So Prone To Wrongful Convictions…
Wisconsin legislators propose raising conviction cap to $1 million…
The University of Otago is host to New Zealand’s Innocence Project, which works to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes…
Illinois Sheriff’s office to increase training after false-confession lawsuits…
Aboriginals at risk of wrongful conviction says a law and justice professor Myles McLellan…

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Posted in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Compensation/Exoneree compensation, False confessions, Legislation, Police conduct (good and bad)

Tagged Aboriginals, Bite-Mark Evidence, China, compensation, Compensation Cap, compensation legislation, exoneree compensation, false confession, forensic science, Hawaii Innocence Project, junk science, miscarriage of justice, new evidence, new trial, New Zealand, Prison Debate Team, wrongful conviction compensation

Friday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Mark Godsey | Leave a comment

In New Jersey, Anthony Mitchell loses another appeal to overturn murder conviction…
A Pennsylvania judge granted a new trial to Roderick Johnson in the 1996 slayings of two Reading cousins, ruling prosecutors failed to provide the defense with key police records…
Michigan compensation bill continues to make its way through the legislature…
North Carolina exoneree Daryl Hunt fights for criminal justice reform…
9 experts say Thomas Rhoades is not a killer…
Sedrick Courtney sues the City of Tulsa for wrongful conviction…
In Idaho, Judges for Justice launch campaign to overturn Christopher Tapp conviction…

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Posted in Commissions/Innocence Commissions/Governmental Case Review Agencies, Compensation/Exoneree compensation, New Evidence, Prosecutorial conduct (good and bad), Reforming/Improving the system, wrongful conviction

Tagged Brady, Brady Violation, compensation, compensation legislation, exoneree compensation, new trial, prosecutorial misconduct, wrongful conviction

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Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology, University of California-Irvine

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Professor, Faculty of Law, Konan University Innocence Project Japan

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Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University; Executive Director, Arizona Innocence Project

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