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Exoneration
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Main December 26, 2005Around the blogosphereEven on the tail end of a long holiday weekend, the blogosphere provides plenty of interest for criminal justice fans:CrimProf Blog notes here that its…
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Exoneration Roundup
Two Illinois men pleaded guilty to a 1986 murder of a medical student; four teenagers had been imprisoned for the killing before being cleared by DNA. A Rollins College student…
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Exoneration Roundup
A Texan who served 12 years in prison for rape was found actually innocent by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after the complainant recanted. (Here's another story.) A man…
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Exoneration Roundup
A North Carolina man who served 14 years for sexual abuse was released when the victims recanted; a newspaper re-interviewed witnesses who said they had not been molested. In Brooklyn,…
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Exoneration Roundup
Florida Today features a story on a jailhouse snitch, due to be released from prison, whose tall tales may have caused the execution of an innocent person; another unlucky cellmate…
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New Article: Unsafe Verdicts
Seton Hall CrimProf D. Michael Risinger has forthcoming in the Houston Law Review "Unsafe Verdicts: The Need for Reformed Standards for the Trial and Review of Factual Innocence Claims." The…
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Exoneration Roundup
Citing a poll indicating that 70% of Texans believe innocent people have been executed, a Texas representative proposed a moratorium on executions pending study of the DNA and capital punishment…
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Exoneration Roundup
A British convict was exonerated 50 years after the crime; an eyewitness recanted. In October, a Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in prison in spite of…
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A Non-DNA Exoneration
The Associated Press reports that an inmate who served 20 years of a life sentence was exonerated when the complainants, who had been six and four at the time they…
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Exonerated Man Creates the Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice
Darryl Hunt, a North Carolina man exonerated after spending 18 years in prison on a murder conviction, has just founded the Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice to hear…