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Maria Shepherd: (Exoneration (7): Guilty plea series (4) ; Brenda Waudby:...

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  Maria Shepherd was not the only innocent person- grieving parent - to plead guilty to an offence in order to avoid having to face  former doctor Charles Smith. What is extraordinary...

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Maria Shepherd: (Exoneration (8): Backgrounder: Ontario Court of Appeal...

BACKGROUNDER: "Russell Silverstein, co-President of AIDWYC, said today“Maria Shepherd has suffered immeasurably due to her wrongful conviction and deserves to have her name cleared by the Ontario Court...

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Maria Shepherd; Exoneration (9): 'Broken Silence': A moving song composed by...

"CLOSE YOUR EYES, JUST TO IMAGINETHE FEAR THAT WE FACED EACH DAY.KNOWING ALL ALONG WE WERE NOT GUILTY, BUT NOT KNOWINGIF WE WOULD LIVE TO SEE ANOTHER DAY."FROM BROKEN SILENCE: BY MARIA...

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Maria Shepherd: (Exoneration 10): Momentous development; After 25 years the...

Maria Shepherd to reporters following her acquittal:"I'm not sure what was going on in Mr. Smith's head. There must be something extremely troubling for someone not to do it once or twice. We're taling...

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Bulletin: Santae Tribble; Flawed FBI hair match testimony: Momentous...

"A judge has awarded $13.2 million to a man who was convicted of murder in Washington and spent 28 years in prison based on forensic hair analysis that was later discredited. D.C. Superior Court Judge...

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Maria Shepherd: Exoneration (11): Globe and Mail report: The Crown apologizes...

"Tears ran down Maria Shepherd’s face as she embraced her lawyer in the moments after being exonerated. More than two decades after Ms. Shepherd was convicted of manslaughter in the death of her...

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Bulletin: Significant Development: 'The Syndrome'. This powerful, revealing,...

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Inclusion of this important documentary speaks loudly of the credibility that "The Syndrome' has mustered. The medical establishment  has done its best  to silence critics of the...

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Review of FBI forensic testimony: Major Development: Spencer Hsu reports in...

 "The Justice Department will expand its review of forensic testimony by the FBI Laboratory in closed criminal cases nationwide to ensure it has not overstated evidence against defendants, Deputy...

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Susan-Neill Fraser: Australia: ‘No body’ murder convictions - including the...

STORY: ‘No body’ murder convictions prompt calls for shake up of Australia’s legal system' by Megan Palin, published by news.com, on March 2, 2016.GIST: "No witness. No confession. No body. None of...

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Bulletin: Anna Yokka: Tennessee: The attempted murder charge against Anna...

"The attempted murder charge against Anna Yocca is scheduled to be dismissed March 29, but the Murfreesboro woman accused in a botched self-abortion will still face a judge. A plea to dismiss the...

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Bulletin: Momentous Occasion. (It's not every day a 'coroner' is recognized...

"The Lake County coroner who played a controversial role in the investigation into the death of Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz will be recognized for his independence by a group of law...

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Rajesh and Nupur Talwar: India: Tanveer Mir, the Talwar's lawyer, discusses...

INTERVIEW: "Your success may be delayed but not denied": In Conversation with Tanveer Mir," conducted by Smrithi Suresh, published by Bench and Bar on March 3, 2016.GIST: "The powerful message welcomes...

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Bulletin: Stephen Beattie: U.K. Former crime scene investigator: He has been...

"A former Cleveland-based crime scene investigator at the centre of a major police watchdog inquiry into sub-standard work has been named. Stephen Beattie, who worked as a scenes-of-crime officer, was...

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Bulletin: Kamal Shah: New Jersey. Forensic experts and defense attorneys say...

"A state police lab technician’s recent removal for improperly testing a drug sample points to a breakdown in a critical review system and could put the entire lab’s credibility in question, forensic...

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Bulletin: Dennis Oland; New Brunswick: 24 News reports that the judge who...

"The judge who committed Dennis Oland to trial for his father’s murder said there were many unanswered questions about the case, and police were too quick to conclude that Oland was the killer.Source...

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Bulletin: Police who plant evidence: Evidence planting claims not limited to...

"From the moment Teresa Halbach's disappearance made the news in 2005, a teary-eyed Steven Avery insisted that the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office was again trying to railroad him. Avery had already...

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Bulletin: Motherisk: Major Revelations: CBC News reports that as many as...

"As many as 2,300 people in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick had their hair tested for drugs and alcohol at a discredited Toronto lab, a CBC News investigation has found. Hundreds of those people produced...

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Coercive interrogation: Dr. Andy Griffith's commentary on "The tipping point...

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Bulletin: Oregon crime lab; Nikki Larsen: Oregon State Police forensic...

  "Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel wants to set aside at least seven criminal convictions in cases where evidence was reviewed by an Oregon State Police forensic analyst suspected of...

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Bulletin: Coy Wesbrook: Texas; (A discredited psychologist George Denkowski...

"On Wednesday, Texas will execute a man who calls himself Elvis. Coy Wesbrook, 58, is scheduled to die by lethal injection for gunning down his ex-wife and four other people in 1997. But his lawyer and...

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