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Innocence Projects
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2/17/2026 CSU|LAW Innocence Project & American Injustice Programs
By Laura Ray
The Cleveland State University College of Law will present two free public forums in the Moot Court Room on Tuesday February 17, 2026. My Story Ain’t Over: A Conversation with…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
2023 CLEA Student Awards for Clinics and Externships: Baltimore’s Akil Holmes, Jessica Sims, Amy Werner, and Alona Del Rosario
By Jeff Baker
The Clinical Legal Education Association invited law schools to nominate students as their Outstanding Clinic Student or Team and Outstanding Externship student. This series includes submissions from law schools celebrating…
EvidenceProf Blog
Professor Richard Leo Posts Report on the Sedley Alley Case
By Colin Miller
As the Innocence Project has reported,In 2006, Sedley Alley was executed by the state of Tennessee after the courts refused to conduct DNA testing that could have helped uncover the truth.On May…
ZMO Law Blog
Freeing Felipe Rodriguez
Thirteen years ago Nina Morrison, a staff attorney at the Innocence Project – the organization, founded by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, that spawned the movement to use DNA to…
Criminal
Why Are They So Afraid of DNA?
An editorial in the Columbus Dispatch raises a question that percolates through a great many convictions, particularly those taken up by the Innocence Projects. Why do prosecutors fight so hard…
Human Rights at Home Blog
39 Years of Wrongful Incarceration
Editor's note: Co-Editor Brian Howe is an attorney with the Ohio Innocence Project. He recently obtained freedom for his client Ricky Jackson who was incarcerated for 39 years. Brian is…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Call for Papers for 2015 Innocence Network Conference
Main December 18, 2014Call for Papers for 2015 Innocence Network ConferenceI am happy to convey upon a kind request this Call for Papers that might be of interest to readers…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Just How Many Wrongfully Convicted Remain Incarcerated?
Co-Editor Brian Howe of the Ohio Innocence Project discuss a recent study on the rate of false convictions. Part two of this discussion will post tomorrow. Brian writes: There has been…
Death Penalty
Raoul Cantero and Mark Schlakman Remind Us: ABA Recommendations Aren’t Being Implemented in Florida
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
Recently, the Tampa Bay Times published a guest column by former Florida Supreme Court justice Raoul Cantero and Mark Schlakman, senior program director for the Center for the Advancement of…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Brother of exonerated prisoner praises Perry’s criminal justice record”
Main October 1, 2011"Brother of exonerated prisoner praises Perry’s criminal justice record"The title of this post is the headline of this interesting report, which begins this way: Cory Session's brother…