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Wrongful Incarceration
467 published works
EvidenceProf Blog
Wrongfully Imprisoned Man Released After 18 Years Based on Innocence Project/Conviction Integrity Unity Collaboration
By Colin Miller
According to an article in the Dallas Morning News,A man who spent the last 18 years in a Texas prison will walk away a free man today, after a Tarrant…
EvidenceProf Blog
Detective Ritz and the Wrongful Conviction of Malcolm Bryant
By Colin Miller
Yesterday, Malcolm Jabbar Bryant was released from prison after serving seventeen years of a life sentence for the murder of 16 year-old Toni Bullock in Baltimore City. The lead detective on…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Gutting Habeas Corpus: The Inside Story of How Bill Clinton Sacrificed Prisoners’ Rights for Political Gain”
Main May 6, 2016"Gutting Habeas Corpus: The Inside Story of How Bill Clinton Sacrificed Prisoners’ Rights for Political Gain"The title of this post is the headline of this notable new…
Ohio Appellate Insights
What Happened on Remand: State Threatens Writ of Procedendo to Compel Decision in Doss v. State
Update: On July 26, 2016, Doss was found not to be a wrongfully-imprisoned person. Read more about that here. Case Background. In 2006, Iran Doss was convicted of kidnapping and rape…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Louisiana Death Sentenced Cases and Their Reversals, 1976-2015”
Main April 29, 2016"Louisiana Death Sentenced Cases and Their Reversals, 1976-2015"The title of htis post is the title of this new reseach paper by Frank Baumgartner and Tim Lyman now…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Fascinating backstory behind big donation behind new “Criminal Justice Reform Center” at SMU Dedman School of Law
Main April 26, 2016Fascinating backstory behind big donation behind new "Criminal Justice Reform Center" at SMU Dedman School of Law This local story out of Dallas, headlined "Deason and Koch…
EvidenceProf Blog
California Law Allows For New Trials When Experts Recant Their Testimony
By Colin Miller
In 2014, California enacted a law that I think should serve as a model for legislation in the other 49 states.“Previously, [California] law allowed a judge to reconsider a conviction…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Making in Oklahoma the modern “conservative appeal against death penalty”
Main April 15, 2016Making in Oklahoma the modern "conservative appeal against death penalty"Richard Viguerie has this notable new commentary in an Oklahoma paper headlined "A conservative appeal against death penalty."…
EvidenceProf Blog
Connecticut Bill Would Give Brady Victims 50% of Exoneration Funds Available to Actually Innocent Defendants
By Colin Miller
On Friday, I posted an entry about Texas denying exoneration funds to a defendant who had proven a Brady violation but (arguably) failed to prove actual innocence. This led me to…
EvidenceProf Blog
The Wrongful Conviction of Keith Allen Harward & the Wrongheadedness of Bite Mark Evidence
By Colin Miller
Yesterday, Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) on Wednesday asked the state supreme court to declare a former sailor [Keith Allen Harward] innocent in the 1982 rape of a Newport…