Jeffrey Havard: Mississippi; (Part Six); Nashville Scene zeroes in...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: (From reviewer's interview with co-author Radley Balko); I still hope that Mississippi courts or the attorney general can be shamed into conducting a thorough review of every case...
View ArticleMotherisk: Hospital for Sick Children: Ontario: Aftermath: (3); National Post...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "A powerful column that brings us closer to the truth of Motherisk - and the hollow core of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. The truest headline I have seen so far in the...
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Roy L. Watford 111: Virginia: From our 'Read This and Weep' department: He...
QUOTE OF THE DAY: ""The weight's off my shoulders," Watford said. Though never jailed, he said the felony conviction has cost him many opportunities at good jobs. He has no other criminal record."...
View ArticleJeffrey Havard: Mississippi: (Part Seven): Levon Brooks: Reporter Billy...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "I have been following this case for years. Jeffrey Havard. On death row in Mississippi for the past 15 years. At the heart of the case, according to Circuit Court Judge Forrest "Al"...
View ArticleMotherisk: Ontario; Aftermath; Part (4) Guess who were most...
STORY: "More recommendations needed to address Indigenous overrepresentation in child welfare," by reporter Matt Prokopchuk, published by CBC News on March 01, 2018.SUB-HEADING: Lawyer says Aboriginal...
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Jeffrey Havard: Mississippi; (Part eight): Radley Balko starts dipping into...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "I have a new book out this week. It is at heart an investigation of how Mississippi medical examiner Steven Hayne and the forensic dentist Michael West dominated the death...
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Motherisk: Hospital for Sick Children: Aftermath; (Part 5): Toronto Star...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: (1): "It is enraging to reflect on these stories. Enraging to realize that there is no justice available, or even possible, in most of these cases where a child has already been...
View ArticleMotherisk: Ontario: Aftermath; Part (6)...(Recently released Beaman report);...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: " Surely Sick Kids, home to two devastating junk-science scandals over the last decade, must be held to account if the system is going to be fixed. EDITORIAL: "Ontario must learn...
View ArticleJeffrey Havard; Mississippi; (Part Nine): Slate reviewer Tim Requart says...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "I have been following this case for years. Jeffrey Havard. On death row in Mississippi for the past 15 years. At the heart of the case, according to Circuit Court Judge Forrest "Al"...
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Motherisk: (Aftermath 6): Hospital for Sick Children: Toronto Star columnist...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: (1): "It is enraging to reflect on these stories. Enraging to realize that there is no justice available, or even possible, in most of these cases where a child has already been...
View ArticleMotherisk: Ontario: (Aftermath (7): CBC News reports problems with a Halifax...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "In a Supreme Court of Nova Scotia decision two weeks ago, Justice Theresa Forgeron ruled the Halifax lab could not offer expertise in a child protection case because the lab was...
View ArticleMotherisk: Ontario: (Aftermath (Part 8): 'Reason' gets to the heart of the...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Reason.com is one of my favourite web-sites. It works in conjunction with 'Reason', a monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets" and describes itself as covering...
View ArticleMotherisk; Aftermath (Part 9) Commentary: Child protection/family/criminal...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "There is nothing new about the commission's finding that many parents were explicitly or implicitly told that there would be negative consequences if they did not undergo hair...
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Tonia Miller: Michigan: Major assault on out-dated shaken baby syndrome...
STORY: "Innocence Clinic challenges conviction of BC mother," by reporter Barbara Deiters, published by WOODTV on March 7, 2018.GIST: "Legal teams from University of Michigan and Northwestern...
View ArticleAlfred Swinton: Connecticut; (1): Flawed Bite-mark (touch DNA) case with a...
QUOTE OF THE DAY: ""I no longer believe with reasonable medical certainty — or with any degree of certainty — that the marks on Ms. Terry were created by Mr. Swinton's teeth, because of the recent...
View ArticleMotherisk; (Aftermath 10): Indigenous leader Gordon Peters blasts Ontario’s...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "In his letter, Peters said the commission ought to have had a broader focus and criticized it for not taking “appropriate steps to notify the thousands of individuals who were...
View ArticleAlfred Swinton Connecticut: (2): Flawed bite mark analysis; Innocence Project...
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Dr. Gus Karazulas is also to be commended for his courage in acknowledging that there was no scientific basis for his testimony linking Mr. Swinton to the crime,” added M. Chris...
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Tyrone Noling: Ohio: Application for DNA testing in quest to prove his...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "His battle for exoneration has bounced around the legal system and this week's decision by the Ohio Supreme Court provided a bit of good news and a bit of bad news. Noling's...
View ArticleEdward Stevens: Idaho: Another important shaken baby case we are following:...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "In his ruling, the U.S. District Court magistrate judge agreed that Stevens' defense attorneys could have used that information to show that the embalming process caused the damage...
View ArticleJohn Grisham: 'Junk science' plays a major role in Grisham's 'Eight reasons...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Over the past five decades, our courtrooms have been flooded with an avalanche of unreliable, even atrocious "science." Experts with qualifications that were dubious at best and...
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