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Wrongful Incarceration
467 published works
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
What Conrad Black Says As He Enters Prison
By Ellen Podgor
Conrad Black reported to the Coleman, Florida prison today after being denied bail pending appeal. (see here). But he did manage to express his side of the case prior to…
EvidenceProf Blog
Evidence And Ethics 13: Professor Raeder’s See No Evil: Wrongful Convictions And The Prosecutorial Ethics Of Offering Testimony By Jailhouse Informants And Dishonest Experts
By Colin Miller
Southwestern Law School Professor Myrna Raeder's contribution to the Evidence and Ethics Symposium is her article, See No Evil: Wrongful Convictions and the Prosecutorial Ethics of Offering Testimony by Jailhouse Informants…
EvidenceProf Blog
Rocky Mountain High: Special Prosecutor Recommends Freeing Tim Masters After DNA Evidence Discovery
By Colin Miller
A special prosecutor recommended today that the murder conviction of Tim Masters be thrown out and that he be granted a new trial after learning that DNA found on Peggy…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Sri Lankan man forgotten in jail for fifty years–without a trial
Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer
Compensation for the Wrongly Convicted
From today’s New York Times piece “Putting a Price on a Wrongful Conviction”: William Gregory and David Pope were both convicted of rape. Mr. Gregory served seven years in a…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Was the ABA’s Ohio death penalty report just a big capital waste?
Main October 1, 2007Was the ABA's Ohio death penalty report just a big capital waste?Thanks to this post by Crime & Consequences, I see that the local AP has now…
The Right Coast
Thernstrom on the Duke CaseMike Rappaport
The delightful Abigail Thernstrom reviews Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson's "Until Proven Innocent." Although I followed the case, the review still reveals significant pieces of the story that I had…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Is the death penalty really the “greatest moral challenge facing lawmakers today”?
Main September 4, 2007Is the death penalty really the "greatest moral challenge facing lawmakers today"?Though I am never inclined to downplay the significance of sentencing issues, I am inclined to…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Learning from exonerations
Main July 23, 2007Learning from exonerationsThanks to this post at ODPI, I see that Adam Liptak has this thoughtful new piece in the New York Times, entitled "Study of Wrongful…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Will Georgia Kill an Innocent Man?”
Main July 16, 2007"Will Georgia Kill an Innocent Man?"The headline of this post is the headline of this Time magazine article discussing the Troy Davis case. Georgia has scheduled Davis's…