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Wrongful Incarceration
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EvidenceProf Blog
Undisclosed Mega-Update Thread 13
By Colin Miller
Yesterday, prosecutors dropped murder charges against Jeff Titus in connection with the deaths of Doug Estes and Jim Bennett. Now, Titus has been completely cleared of any wrongdoing in the…
Legal Talk Network
The Fight for Justice: Marty Tankleff’s Story of a Coerced Confession and Wrongful Conviction
By Paige Locke
How a Coerced Confession Led to a Wrongful Conviction On September 7, 1988, Marty Tankleff [1], a high school senior, woke up to find his adoptive parents brutally beaten and…
Simple Justice
The Trade-Off of Second Chances
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after serving 28 years in prison. He could have been bitter after his wrongful conviction, but instead he put his energies toward something better. He is…
ZMO Law Blog
Felipe Rodriguez and Police Accountability
By Zachary Margulis-OhnumaMy extraordinary client Felipe Rodriguez was released from Otisville Correctional Facility in 2018 by then-governor Andrew Cuomo after serving almost 27 years for a murder he did not…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
2023 CLEA Student Awards for Clinics and Externships: Loyola – LA Law School’s Kendall Weaver
By Jeff Baker
The Clinical Legal Education Association invites law schools to nominate students as their Outstanding Clinic Student or Team and Outstanding Externship student. This series includes submissions from law schools celebrating…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Book, Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
By Tracy Thomas
Valena Betty, Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their RightsWhen Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What…
Simple Justice
The Relativity of True Crime
After the podcast Serial became a hit, the phone started ringing. The calls were from journalists, producers, wannabe podcasters, asking whether I had any cases involving a clearly innocent defendant…
Legal Talk Network
Falsely Accused: The Brian Banks Story
By Paige Locke
In 2002, Brian Banks was a 17-year-old high school football star with a promising future ahead of him. Unfortunately, his life took a drastic turn when he was falsely accused…
Other
Two notable new legal commentaries from <em>Slate</em> on innocence and prison change-agents
Today I came across two notable new pieces at Slate, both of which justify their own posts but will end up combined here. Specifically, here are headlines, links and openning…
Legal Profession Blog
Suspension Becomes Disbarment
An attorney who was suspended for five years in North Carolina has been disbarred as reciprocal discipline by the New York Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department.Under the totality…