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Wrongful Incarceration
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Still more stories of wrongful federal gun convictions and sentences from North Carolina
Main December 26, 2012Still more stories of wrongful federal gun convictions and sentences from North CarolinaUSA Today has this new piece, headlined "Hundreds of federal prisoners could be freed," which…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Merit Decision. Proving Actual Innocence. Doss v. State.
On December 6, 2012, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in Doss v. State, 2012-Ohio-5678. In a unanimous decision written by Justice Lanzinger, the Court held that a…
Death Penalty
Special Screening of New Film: WEST OF MEMPHIS – Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
The West Memphis Three were freed a little over a year ago after lots of support and efforts to make the public aware of what was happening to these three…
Ohio Appellate Insights
What’s on Their Minds: Proving Actual Innocence. Doss v. State
Update: On December 6, 2012, the Supreme Court handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here. On September 26, 2012, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Oregon’s Death Penalty: The Practical Reality”
Main September 13, 2012"Oregon's Death Penalty: The Practical Reality" The title of this post is the title of this new paper available via SSRN and authored by Profesor Aliza Kaplan.…
Sentencing Law and Policy
State legislator talking up bringing the death penalty back to Illinois
Main September 8, 2012State legislator talking up bringing the death penalty back to Illinois As reported in this local piece, a "downstate lawmaker plans to introduce a bill to reinstate…
Sentencing Law and Policy
More wrongful federal gun convictions and sentences being remedied in North Carolina
Main August 30, 2012More wrongful federal gun convictions and sentences being remedied in North CarolinaAs reported in this local piece, headlined "Judge rules five inmates wrongly sentenced on gun charges,"…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Wrongful federal gun convictions finally getting undone in North Carolina
Main August 18, 2012Wrongful federal gun convictions finally getting undone in North CarolinaAs reported in this AP piece, a "federal judge has overturned the conviction of a North Carolina man…
The Faculty Lounge
Latest on the North Carolina Innocence Commission
University of Richmond law professor Mary Kelly Tate, who's director of UR's innocence project, has the latest on the North Carolina state innocence project here.
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Prosecutor Elections, Mistakes, and Appeals”
Main July 17, 2012"Prosecutor Elections, Mistakes, and Appeals"A helpful reader alerted me to this interesting-looking new paper on SSRN by Bryan C. McCannon which shares the title of this post.…