Dan and Fran Keller: Texas; Radley Balko's take on "the on-going legacy of...
STORY: "The ongoing legacy of the great satanic sex abuse panic," posted by Radley Balko, published by the Washington Post on May 26, 2105. (Radley Balko blogs about criminal justice, the drug war and...
View ArticleFBI DNA match calculation errors: A tarnished "gold standard?" Washington...
STORY: "FBI notifies crime labs of errors used in DNA match calculations since 1999," by reporter Spencer S. Hsu, published by The Washington Post on May 29, 2015; (Spencer S. Hsu is an investigative...
View ArticleBulletin: Tainted forensic evidence: Comprehensive Christian Science article:...
Across the country, the criminal justice system is grappling with the fallout from decades of faulty analysis in criminal cases that may have resulted in thousands of wrongful convictions....
View ArticleBulletin: Jermiah Duggan; Mother of a Jewish student who died after...
The mother of a Jewish student who died after attending a Right-wing youth camp in Germany said today she would not rest until “her son’s killers are brought to justice.” Jeremiah Duggan, 22, was found...
View ArticleMary Han: New Mexico; More than four years after her death questions linger...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Disturbing questions have been raised about the integrity of the investigation of the Albuquerque Police Department investigation into the death of high profile defence and civil...
View ArticleTyrone Noling: Ohio: Controversy continues to surround his conviction as he...
STORY: "25 years later, Atwater murder case, conviction still generate controversy," by reporter Dave O'Brien, published by the Record-Courier on May 27 2015.GIST: Controversy continues to surround...
View ArticleBulletin: Motherisk tainted hair testing debacle echoes in Nova Scotia with a...
Hair samples used as evidence of drug and alcohol abuse in dozens of open child protection cases in Nova Scotia should be re-examined, a lawyer says, because the Toronto lab that tested the samples is...
View ArticleFunding of wrongful conviction cases; Major development: In bid to correct...
STORY: "Legal Aid funds wrongful-conviction cases," by reporter Rachel Mendelson, published by the Toronto Star on May 14, 2015.SUB-HEADING: "Legal Aid Ontario commits $100,000 to the Association in...
View ArticleBulletin: Mark Lundy; New Zealand; NZME News Service reports that Lundy's...
Mark Lundy's appeal focuses on scientific evidence that he says was too technical for a jury to understand. The convicted double-murderer's appeal notice, obtained by NZME News Service, said he was...
View ArticleNeal Robbins: Texas: Important appeal today on issue: "What if a field of...
COMMENTARY: "Old Convictions, New Science," by Maurice Chammah, published by the Marshall Project on May 28, 2015.SUB-HEADING: "Texas tackles debunked forensics."GIST: "In the spring of 2013, the Texas...
View ArticleBulletin: Shabaka Shakur: Brooklyn, New York. Retired police detective Louis...
In a decision released on Tuesday, a judge ordered a new trial for Shabaka Shakur, a man serving two consecutive terms of 20 years to life for a 1988 double homicide in Brooklyn. Mr. Shakur, now 50,...
View ArticleBulletin: Donovan Allen; Washington State: Major victory for attorneys of the...
Convicted killer Donovan Allen will get another chance to prove he didn't kill his mother 15 years ago. At the request of Allen's lawyers, County Superior Court Judge Marilyn Haan Friday ordered new...
View ArticleNeal Robbins: Texas: Houston Chronicle report says state's highest court for...
STORY: "Murder case could set precedent in so-called 'junk science writs," by Mike Ward, published by the Houston Chronicle on June 3, 2014.GIST: "The state's highest court for criminal matters on...
View ArticleBulletin: Lester Bower; Texas; Why Radley Balko thinks that Lester Bowers'...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: ABC News reports "Texas executes Lester Bower; State's oldest prisoner on death row." (May he rest in peace. HL);...
View ArticlePedro Hernandez: New York; Lone holdout juror Adam Sirois explains to CNN why...
COMMENTARY: "Etan Patz juror: Why I voted not guilty," by Adam Sirois, published by CNN on May 28, 2015;GIST: (CNN): Adam Sirois is a global health care and management consultant. He has served as...
View ArticleBulletin: Ingmar Guandique: Washington; A judge has ordered a new for him in...
A Washington judge on Thursday granted a new trial to the man convicted of killing federal intern Chandra Levy in 2001, after prosecutors dropped their opposition to a defense request to re-try the...
View ArticleBulletin: Lester Bower; Texas: Lingering questions will go unanswered, the...
He was convicted and sentenced to die for an October 1983 quadruple murder inside an airplane hangar on a ranch outside Sherman, Texas, near the Oklahoma border. The state maintained that he...
View ArticleBarbara Sloan: Arizona: She moves one step closer to complete exoneration on...
STORY: "Ties between Phoenix Fire Department, insurer at issue in lawsuit," by reporter Matthew Casey. published by the Republic on May 14, 2015.GIST: "A so-called "hand-in-hand" relationship between...
View ArticleHenry Lee McCollum: North Carolina): Exonerated: Steve Benen shows us how...
COMMENTARY: "Scalia's perfect captal punishment case falls apart," by Steve Benen, published by MSNBC on June 5, 2015. (Steve Benen (born May 15, 1973) is an American political writer and blogger, an...
View ArticleCriminal justice reform: Is reform of America's criminal justice system...
PULISHER'S VIEW: One of the constant themes of this Blog is the need for our criminal justice system to be constantly evaluated to ensure that it is working fairly and accurately - and to ensure that...
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