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Wrongful Incarceration
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Sentencing Law and Policy
“What’s the right way to compensate someone for decades of lost freedom?”
Main April 7, 2015"What’s the right way to compensate someone for decades of lost freedom?"The question in the title of this post is the subheadline of this new lengthy New…
The Faculty Lounge
A Remarkable Mea Culpa From A Prosecutor Who Put An Innocent Man on Death Row
In the March 20, 2015, issue of the Shreveport (LA) Times, there appeared a letter to the editor written by a man named Marty Stroud. It was written in response…
EvidenceProf Blog
Federal Lawsuit Includes Claims Against Baltimore Criminalist for Mischaracterizing Gunshot Residue Evidence
By Colin Miller
On Monday, Sabein Burgess filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland against several defendants, including Daniel Van Gelder. Van Gelder, you might recall, is…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
No Absolute Immunity for Officers Who Falsified Evidence
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Ninth Circuit ruled last week that officers who falsely testified against a defendant based on shoddy investigation reports did not enjoy the traditional…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Questions raised about the death penalty in Ohio”
Main March 8, 2015"Questions raised about the death penalty in Ohio"The title of this post is the headline of this lengthy front-page article appearing today in my own home-town Columbus…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
How much is 25 years of your life worth to you?
How about $25 million? Well that's precisely what a Brooklyn man claims he's due for the 25 years he spent locked up for a murder he didn't commit. The NYPost reports:…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Guilty, Then Proven Innocent”
The Atlantic's Matt Ford posted this compelling piece earlier today, which begins: Joseph Sledge’s timing could not have been worse. While serving a four-year sentence for stealing t-shirts in 1976,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Any broad criminal justice reforms … will fail without first fixing the indigent defense crisis.”
Main January 5, 2015"Any broad criminal justice reforms ... will fail without first fixing the indigent defense crisis."The title of this post is one notable point stressed by David Carroll…
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…