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University of Arkansas Law Review
Mara Leveritt, author and authority on the West Memphis 3 case in Arkansas, published an article on the role of the media in Arkansas's troubled system of justice. |
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AP-The back story on the uncovering of notorious Chicago police abuse case
The Associated Press excellent story on John Burge, the commander of the notorious police unit that was responsible for torturing 100 men into falsely confessing, was finally sentnecee to 4 years in prison. This is the story of how this horrible case was first uncovered. |
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Court Allows False Confession Expert to Testify
In Pennsylvania, a three judge panel has ruled that Richard Leo, one of the country's leading experts on false confessions, will be allowed to testify as an expert in a murder trial involving the false confession of a mentally handicapped man. |
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NY Daily Record
Douglas Warney,wrongfully convicted based upon a false confession and imprisoned for nine years in New York State prisons, is seeking to overturn a lower court decision denying him the right to sue. |
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PBS Frontline on Norfolk Four Case
A compelling documentary about how four innocent men confessed to rape and murder they did not commit and served 13 years in prison before they were pardoned. |
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Confessing to Crime, but Innocent
New York Times article by John Schwartz on study of 40 false confession exonerees. |
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Ryan Ferguson is Innocent
Ryan Ferguson serving a 40-year sentence for murder, is innocent according to false confessions expert Prof. Richard Leo and most others. |
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Arson or Injustice? (article & video), www.boston.com, June 27, 2010
Many arson cases are solved by confessions. Because the science is inexact and because even if fire experts can tell that a fire was intentionally set, a confession is often still needed to determine who set the fire. This often leads interrogators to conduct highly confrontational and aggressive interrogations of suspects in order to obtain a confession. This, in turn, increases the risk of false confessions. In the United States, many arson cases are now being reviewed as questions concerning the arson science underlying these convictions is coming under scrutiny (often from the arson scientists themselves). I hope that in their review of cases involving questionable science that the experts do not rule out cases in which the suspects may have confessed. On Sunday, the Boston Globe published a terrific investigative piece by reporters for the New England Center for Investigative Reporting about an infamous arson case that is now coming under newfound scrutiny by arson experts. The article revisits Victor Rosario's conviction in a 1982 fire in Lowell, MA that left eight people dead and raises serious questions about Rosario's guilt, the science that was used to convict him, and the reliability of his confession. --Steve Drizin |
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Speaking Up to Stay Silent
New York Times Editorial |
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Mere Silence Doesn't Invoke Miranda, Justices Say
New York Times, June 1, 2010 By Adam Liptak |
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FOX News Strategy Room on West Memphis 3 case and false confessions.
Plea to Reconsider Sentence Lonnie Soury explains his work to free convicted felon Damien Echols in Arkansas |
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Rochester Man To Be Freed 18 Years After Wrongful Murder Conviction; DNA and Confession Lead to Actual Perpetrator
The Innocence Project, April 28, 2010 New York State leads the nation in violent crimes committed by those who evaded justice when innocent people were wrongfully convicted. |
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Confession Prompted by Lies, Prisoner Fights for Freedom
By Richard C. Paddock, "AOL News," April 14, 2010 |
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QUEST for JUSTICE: Nearly 2 decades later, man wants case for freedom heard
By Daniel Borunda, "El Paso Times," April 11, 2010 |
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Police interrogations: AP-LS issues landmark white paper
Blog "In the News: Forensic Psychology, Criminology, and Psychology-Law," March 14, 2010 |
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Police conclude over-reliance on inaccurate DNA test led to Sugaya's false arrest for murder
"The Mainichi Daily News," April 1, 2010 |
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Throwing a lifeline to the next Donald Gates
By James Trainum, "Washington Post," March 28, 2010 |
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Japan Clears Man Imprisoned for 17 Years
By Hiroko Tabuchi, "New York Times," March 26, 2010 |
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The Disturbing Case of the Norfolk Four
By Brian Bennett, "Time," Nov. 11, 2008 |
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Changes Encouraged to Prevent False Confessions
By Jennifer 8. Lee, "New York Times," July 3, 2008 |
