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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.   |
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The Unrepentant D.A. Prosecutorial error in Santa Clara |
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Aug/Sep 2007
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Free at Last The 200th person wrongfully convicted of a crime has been exonerated with the help of the Innocence Project, an organization founded by attorneys Barry Sheck and Peter Neufeld at Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law in 1992. |
Salon.com
March 17, 2000
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Angels of justice Barry Scheck and Jim Dwyer talk about the Innocence Project, which has helped overturn eight wrongful convictions of death-row inmates. |
ifeminists
July 25, 2007
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Rarer than Rabies: The Legacy of Michael Nifong Michael Nifong's malfeasance has thrust the problem of prosecutorial abuse back into the public eye. |
Salon.com
March 13, 2002
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Worst-case scenario I knew it was coming, but it's still hard to accept: In Texas, mental illness is not a defense to murder... |
Reason
December 2007
Radley Balko |
No Money, No Justice Do public defenders deserve scorn, or bigger budgets? Book review: Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office, by Kevin Davis. |
ifeminists
December 20, 2006
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Immunity May Not Protect Duke Prosecutor Absolute immunity was never meant to suppress evidence, dilute police procedure, or violate civil rights. But when checks and balances within the system refuse to work, then it becomes a blank check on the use of power. |
Salon.com
January 2, 2001
David Lindorff |
The death penalty's other victims When prosecutors eliminate jurors opposed to capital punishment, they also weed out women and minorities and stack the deck against defendants... |
ifeminists
April 26, 2007
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VAWA Casts a Long Shadow over the Duke Fiasco Here's the dirty little secret of D.A.s who prosecute sexual assault and domestic violence cases: many of the claims they pursue are as flaky as a pie crust and their chances of winning a jury conviction are slim. So why do they bother to go after the case? |
Salon.com
June 12, 2000
Alan Berlow |
Bush's death penalty dodge The Texas governor has issued his first reprieve in a death penalty case; the question is whether he's seen the light or is just playing politics. |
Salon.com
October 20, 2000
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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... |
Chemistry World
October 1, 2014
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Researcher imprisoned for poisoning ex-lover Ana Gonzalez-Angulo was found guilty of poisoning her ex-lover George Blumenschein -- another doctor who was her colleague at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. |
ifeminists
April 30, 2007
Stephen Baskerville |
Duke Case Demonstrates Feminist "Justice" Decades of pursuing illusory, subjective, and politically defined "justice" have left Americans so incapable of distinguishing guilt from innocence that we are now inured to the most open injustice. |
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. |
Salon.com
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Words held hostage The national media reported on every detail of the dramatic "Texas Seven" prison escape -- except the fugitives' harsh criticism of the state's criminal justice system when they surrendered... |
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April 2004
Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
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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
March 30, 2009
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America's caste system: sex offenders They are the new untouchables who live under different laws than the rest of us. America has embraced a caste system. |
CFO
Alix Nyberg |
Executive Indictments Prosecutors looking to pin corporate scandals on the top dog often press other executives for information that could prove a case against the CEO in exchange for leniency for the informers. Finance chiefs facing criminal sentencing have traditionally jumped at the offer. |
