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Reason December 2008 Radley Balko |
Innocence Denied As the science of DNA testing improves, labs can go further and further back in time to test even damaged and partially decomposed DNA evidence. |
Reason June 2008 Radley Balko |
Soundbite: Freeing the Innocent A conversation with Craig Watkins, the first elected African-American district attorney in Texas history. |
Salon.com March 17, 2000 Alicia Montgomery |
Angels of justice Barry Scheck and Jim Dwyer talk about the Innocence Project, which has helped overturn eight wrongful convictions of death-row inmates. |
Reason February 2005 Julian Sanchez |
Songs of Innocence The Justice for All Act of 2004, signed into law in October, grants federal convicts a right to have potentially exculpatory DNA evidence considered by courts. |
ifeminists July 25, 2007 Carey Roberts |
Rarer than Rabies: The Legacy of Michael Nifong Michael Nifong's malfeasance has thrust the problem of prosecutorial abuse back into the public eye. |
Chemistry World September 29, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Forensic crime lab malpractice surfaces in Oregon New revelations that a chemist at an Oregon state forensics lab appears to have tampered with drug evidence have led the state's governor to launch an investigation. |
Reason February 2003 Ronald Bailey |
Guilt Tip DNA testing and justice: Voters seem to agree that if the state is going to claim the awesome power to execute murderers, it should make every effort to insure that those it kills are in fact guilty. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Simon A. Cole |
Double Helix Jeopardy DNA databases help solve crimes but some say they also aid and abet racial discrimination. Can there be a compromise between the desire for privacy and the need for crime control? |
Salon.com October 20, 2000 Amy Goldwasser |
The exonerated Wrongly convicted, they sat on death row for years. Extraordinary legal measures saved their lives. A new play confronts us with their nightmares... |
Inc. November 2005 Max Chafkin |
Megan's Law and Your Business What employers need to know about the new national sex offender registry. Because sex offender status is generally considered public information, companies could be held liable for not using the database. |