Tag Archives: exoneration

Friday’s Quick Clicks…

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

Introducing the newest member of the Innocence Network: The Oregon Innocence Project…
The Montana Innocence Project names Joseph Bischof Executive Director…
The Associated Press has compiled a partial list of those compensated for being wrongfully convicted…
Selwyn Days’ conviction for Eastchester murders overturned for the fourth time…
Ruddy Quezada, who spent 24 years behind bars on a murder conviction, was released from Rikers Island Monday night hours after a veteran prosecutor resigned over false statements she made about evidence in his case…
Sept. 25 Symposium at Santa Clara University Aims to Highlight Prosecutor Programs to Free Wrongfully Convicted…

Posted in Commissions/Innocence Commissions/Governmental Case Review Agencies, Compensation/Exoneree compensation, Conviction Integrity Units, Exonerations, New Evidence, Prosecutorial conduct (good and bad), wrongful conviction

Tagged compensation, Conviction Integrity Unit, exoneration, exoneree, exoneree compensation, new evidence, new trial

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.

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Posted in Commissions/Innocence Commissions/Governmental Case Review Agencies, Compensation/Exoneree compensation, False confessions, New Evidence

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

Friday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Mark Godsey | Leave a comment

The Connecticut Supreme Court has abolished the death penalty: “Upon careful consideration of the defendant’s claims in light of the governing constitutional principles and Connecticut’s unique historical and legal landscape, we are persuaded that, following its prospective abolition, this state’s death penalty no longer comports with contemporary standards of decency and no longer serves any legitimate penological purpose. For these reasons, execution of those offenders who committed capital felonies prior to April 25, 2012, would violate the state constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.”
Lewis Fogle, who spent 34 years in prison for rape and murder, was released on bond yesterday from an Indiana state prison after his conviction was vacated…
Illinois Appellate Court throws out Shawn Whirl’s murder conviction finding the only evidence of his guilt to be a false confession elicited through torture…
False confessions: I did it. I did it. Not really: Why would so many people confess to something they didn’t do?…

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Posted in Exonerations, False confessions, Police conduct (good and bad), wrongful conviction

Tagged Death Penalty, exoneration, exoneree, false confession, new trial, police misconduct

Friday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Mark Godsey | Leave a comment

Luong Ngoc Phi, a wrongfully convicted man in a fraud case that once shocked the northern province of Thai Binh, is suing the Thai Binh People’s Court and Police for a record-breaking compensation of VND64 billion (US$2.93 million)…
The family of Sharrif Wilson, who died earlier this year after being released from prison where he served over 20 years for three murders he didn’t commit, is suing New York City for damages…

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Tagged compensation, exoneration, exoneree, exoneree compensation

Thursday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Mark Godsey | 1 comment

Joel Fowler becomes 14th person exonerated in Brooklyn since Kenneth P. Thompson became district attorney in January 2014…
Only 6 of the pardoned”Wilmington 10″ wins compensation from state…
North Korean Officials accused of forcing Pastor Lim Hyeon-soo to make false confession…
Coerced Confessions and Jailhouse snitches: why the death penalty is so flawed…
In Rhode Island, Raymond Tempest Jr. continues to wait for released after serving 23 years in prison for murder…
Malaysian Veeramani Manikam’s 20 year drug sentence overturned on appeal…

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Posted in Asia, Compensation/Exoneree compensation, Exonerations, False confessions

Tagged appeals process, Asia, Death Penalty, exoneration, exoneree, exoneree compensation, false confession, jailhouse snitches, wilmington 10

Thursday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Mark Godsey | Leave a comment

Sam Gross, editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, recently wrote an editorial for the Washington Post: The Staggering Number of Wrongful Convictions in American

In Hawaii, attorneys say they can prove that the investigation and prosecution resulting in Taryn Christian 1995 murder conviction were rife with fraud…

Illinois exoneree Alprentiss Nash who was convicted of murder in 1995 and released in 2012 after DNA tests proved his innocence, was fatally shot Tuesday after an argument…

New York’s highest court denies State’s appeal of 2014 court decision overturning the 1993 kidnapping convictions of Everton Wagstaffe and Reginald Connor…

New Conviction Integrity Unit formed in Orange County, New York…

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Posted in Conviction Integrity Units, Editorials/Opinion, Exonerations, Post-conviction relief, Prosecutorial conduct (good and bad), wrongful conviction

Tagged Brady Violation, Conviction Integrity Unit, exoneration, exoneree, National Registry of Exonerations, Prosecutorial immunity, prosecutorial misconduct, Sam Gross, The National Registry of Exonerations, wrongful conviction

Wednesday’s Quick Clicks…

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Mark Godsey | Leave a comment

The Oklahoma Innocence Project continues to battle for Malcolm Scott’s freedom…

Robert W. Wood of Forbes Magazine discusses why “Taxing Wrongful Conviction Money Is Wrong“…

The National Law Review covers the root causes of wrongful conviction…

In Chicago, DNA proves Daniel Andersen’s innocence in 1980 stabbing…

The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to grant immunity to former Pennsylvania prosecutors in civil suit filed by David Munchinski who spent 24 years wrongfully imprisoned…

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Posted in Access to DNA testing, Exonerations, Prosecutorial conduct (good and bad)

Tagged compensation, DNA, DNA testing, exoneration, exoneree, exoneree compensation, Prosecutorial immunity, taxing wrongful conviction, wrongful conviction, wrongful conviction compensation

Rape Conviction Vacated with Support of Prosecutor

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Nancy Petro | 1 comment

Quentin Carter, 40, maintained his innocence throughout nearly 17 years in prison following his conviction of the 1991 rape of a 10-year old child. He was likely denied parole numerous times because he would not express remorse for a crime he didn’t commit.

Carter was 16 when convicted. He was released in 2008 but was registered as a sex offender with all the restrictions this designation carries.

Kent County (MI) Prosecutor William Forsyth was instrumental in vacating Carter’s wrongful conviction, which occurred by order of a judge last Thursday. Continue reading →

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Tagged exoneration, recantations

Exoneree Fernando Bermudez on a Lecture Tour in Germany

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Kana Sasakura | 1 comment

From Fernando Bermudez:

Exoneree Fernando Bermudez is now touring around Germany, giving lectures about his experience and the innocence movement in the United States. The cities he will be visiting are: Bochum, Greifswald, Berlin, Passau, Tübingen, Wiesbaden, and Freiburg. Read the news here (in German).

Fernando Bermudez served over 18 years in New York prisons, following his wrongful conviction for murder, until proven innocent in 2009. Continue reading →

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Tagged exoneration, Fenando Bermudez, Germany

New States Attorney Vacates Conviction; Ends Long Journey to Exoneration

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Nancy Petro | 3 comments

Bennie Starks was overjoyed, struggled to find words, and fought back tears yesterday, January 7, 2013, after newly elected Lake County (IL) State’s Attorney Mike Nerheim officially vacated his charge of aggravated battery. A rape charge against Starks had already been dropped in May. Starks spent 20 years in prison after being convicted of the charges, stemming from the 1986 assault and battery of a 68-year-old woman, until DNA testing and challenges to other evidence in the case prompted an overturning of his rape conviction. Continue reading →