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  • Injustice in Illinois -Ari Berman


    BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority Authority: 549
    "Theres a very important editorial in The Nation this week that I hope everyone will take the time to read. Its about the wrongful conviction of Anthony McKinney, whos been in prison for thirty-one years for a murder he did not commit." NOTE: The entire editorial is here: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091123/editors ...
    6 days ago

  • Perspective Would Be Nice


    Just Above Sunset — Authority Authority: 425
    The day after the off-off-year elections – previously discussed here if you must obsess about them – the nation moved on to other matters. That was over. The Republicans picked up two governorships and the Democrats picked up two House seats, and Maine became another state that will not agree gays should be ...
    1 week ago

  • Prosecutors Must be Held Accountable for Misconduct


    The Justice Project — Authority Authority: 103
    By John F. Terzano Charged with dual roles as advocates and ministers of justice, prosecutors are the most powerful actors in our criminal justice system. They have sole responsibility for decisions regarding what charges to bring against an individual, what sentence to seek, what plea bargain to offer, and what ...
    1 week ago

  • How Many More Innocent People Aren’t So Lucky?


    The Justice Project — Authority Authority: 103
    By Edwin Colfax Texas has made many headlines in recent years for the spate of exonerations of wrongfully convicted men. In most of these cases, fortuitous turns of events, along with the hard work of innocence advocates, led to solid proof that eyewitness evidence was mistaken. The same is true in the latest case, ...
    1 week ago

  • This Cant Make Anyone Feel Safe


    Change the Wind — Authority Authority: 425
    Ive been trying to digest the idea that something like judicial or political pride in our state would trump wanting to make certain that we got a crucial matter like capital punishment right. The case of Cameron Todd Willingham has been the source of significant public conversation nationally. Willingham, not the ...
    3 weeks ago

  • More on the Tim Cole Advisory Panel


    The StandDown Texas Project — Authority Authority: 511
    Texas Tech Universitys Daily Toreador columnist Paul Williamson writes, " Texas justice system getting much needed examination ." In 1985 Texas Tech was hit by a series of rapes. This promptedLubbock police to send a female undercover officer to Tech’s campus totry to lure the Tech rapist. This is when the ...
    4 weeks ago

  • The Tim Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions


    The StandDown Texas Project — Authority Authority: 511
    Dave Montgomery writes, " Tim Cole panel begins yearlong look at judicial safeguards ," for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. A blue-ribbon panel named after a wrongfully convicted inmate fromFort Worth is beginning a prolonged mission toward reforming criminaljustice in Texas, fueled by a ballooning controversy over ...
    4 weeks ago

  • Tim Cole Panel Begins Study Texas Wrongful Convictions


    The Justice Project — Authority Authority: 103
    By John F. Terzano Texas has had more than its share of tragic wrongful convictions. Of the more than 40 people exonerated by DNA in Texas, one of the most heartbreaking cases is that of Timothy Cole . Cole was wrongly convicted in 1986 for a Lubbock rape. DNA testing conclusively exonerated him last year and ...
    4 weeks ago

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