Nebraska Should Pay Man in False Confession Case

Steve Drizen of Northwestern University's Center on Wrongful Convictions Asks Nebraska to Pay Man in False Confession Case

Japanese Prosecutors Charged with Wrongdoing

Japanese Legal System Protects Prosecutors

John Grisham, The Confession

John Grisham has a new book, The Confession, a true to life tale of a false confession and the death penalty set in Texas.

Rubin Hurricane Carter

Rubin Hurricane Carter's new book,"Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom."

The Brenton Butler Case

Ten years ago Brenton Butler went on trial for a murder he did not commit based on a false and coerced confession and faulty i.d. testimony. The case became the subject of an Academy Award winning film -Murder on a Sunday Morning – and has led to significant changes in the interrogation practices of Jacksonville officers. Whereas they once opposed electronic recording, it is now standard practice in homicide case.

Donald Connery op ed in the Hartford Courant on recording of interrogations

The Connecticut Supreme Court, in Conn. v. Lockhart, refused to require electronic recording of police interrogations under either the due process clause or its supervisory powers. Donald Connery, longtime advocate for recording, and the author of Guilty Until Proven Innocent, published a powerful Op-ed in the Hartford Courant and the paper also editorialized in favor of recording. The legislature convenes again next year and the dissent will surely be seen as a clarion call to the legislature to take action, especially given that a Pilot Project in a number of sites has met with universal approval of recording. Steve Drizen

Death Penalty on Trial in Texas

Time Magazine looks at legal efforts by the Texas Defenders Association and the Innocence Project to seek exonerations based upon the fact that it is likley that inncocent people have been put to death in Texas.

False Confession Case in Riley Fox Murder

Report issued on the false confession case of Kevin Fox in Illinois.

In North Carolina mentally challenged man freed after false confession

North Carolina has one of the most aggressive innocence commissions. A mentally challenged man was freed after 14 years in prison, convicted based upon his own false confession.

Prosecutors Continue to Oppose DNA Testing

Whether in Texas, Arkansas or New York, prosecutors still vigorously oppopse DNA testing, even when it can save a person from a death sentence. Using all legal means to oppose DNA testing, from narrow interpretation of federal and state DNA laws to due diligence claims, overturning wrongful convcitons are not a priority. Worse yet, it appeasrs that maintaining convictions at any cost is the norm.

South Carolina Police Official Calls For Videotaping Interrogations

Rebecca Brown, Deputy Policy Director for the Innocence Project, joins South Carolina officials in calling for videotaping interrogations.

Wrongful Convictions as Way of Life

New York Times book review of Professor Brandon L. Garrett's book based upon his study of wrongful convictions.

The Story of a False Confession

A new book on the wrongful conviction and false confession obtained by infamous prosecutor John Reid, developer of the Reid technique for obtaining confessions.

The Yogurt Shop Murders-Austin Chronicle

Four young girls murdered and raped, two men convicted and sentenced for their murders, ten years later they are freed by the prosecutor. New DNA at the crime scene, false confessions and likely a wrongful conviction

NY Times Prosecutor Hid Evidence in Wrongful Conviction Case

Texas man freed in conviction for murder of his wife after prosecutor found to have hid evidence.

Conviction Overturned for Pennsylvania's Longest Serving Inmate on Death Row

A murder a false confession and a death sentence. Twenty years on death row and now a conviction overturned and the next step, freedom.

NY Court of Appeals on False Confessions

The New York State Court of Appeals ruled 7 to 2 not to allow false confession expert Richard Ofshe to testify in a child rape case in which the woman defendant was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The court did recognize that false confessions happen but did not accept that the expert testimony was relevant.

NY State Court Allows False Confession Experts Barely

New York State Court of Appeals took a small step towards allowing false confession experts into court.

Washington Post Reports Tainted Forensic Evidence Kept From Defendants

Washington Post on DOJ Report on failures in its forensic analysis of evidence in criminal cases. How many innocent people are in prison convicted with tainted forensic testing by FBI?

NY 1 News Families of Wrongfully Convicted at City Hall

Over 50 family members of those wrongfully convicted and in New York State prisons gathered on the steps of NYC City Hall.