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After Years of Trying, Joseph Webster Finally Finds Relief in 2006 Tennessee Conviction

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|Date: November 11, 2020
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After Years of Trying, Joseph Webster Finally Finds Relief in 2006 Tennessee Conviction

By Ruby Chavez NASHVILLE, TN – It’s not as though Joseph Webster ever stopped trying, and on Tuesday, Nov ...

By Ruby Chavez NASHVILLE, TN – It’s not as though Joseph Webster ever stopped trying, and on Tuesday, Nov. 10, a “Note of Intent” was successfully filed in the Webster v. Tennessee Case NO. 2005-B-138 ...

November 11, 2020
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Looking Back: DNA Nice Start but No Cure-All

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|Date: November 01, 2020
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Looking Back: DNA Nice Start but No Cure-All

Wrongful convictions and execution cannot be eliminated with certainty "Looking back" will feature reprin ...

Wrongful convictions and execution cannot be eliminated with certainty "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which ...

November 01, 2020
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Exonerated Roscetti 4 Oppose Patrick O’Brien for Cook County State Attorney with History of Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: October 18, 2020
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Exonerated Roscetti 4 Oppose Patrick O’Brien for Cook County State Attorney with History of Wrongful Convictions

By Linhchi Nguyen CHICAGO – The “Roscetti Four” – wrongfully convicted men who were eventually exonerated ...

By Linhchi Nguyen CHICAGO – The “Roscetti Four” – wrongfully convicted men who were eventually exonerated – are opposing, in a campaign video, one of the candidates for Cook County State Attorney, cha ...

October 18, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part XI – FINAL: Discussion and Conclusions

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|Date: October 07, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part XI – FINAL: Discussion and Conclusions

(This is the 11th and final report in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerati ...

(This is the 11th and final report in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. Possley, Kaitlyn J. Roll, and Klara H. Stephens) By ...

October 07, 2020
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On Wednesday, a Tennessee Court Decides on Allowing DNA Testing – Pervis Payne’s Life Depends on It.

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|Date: September 15, 2020
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On Wednesday, a Tennessee Court Decides on Allowing DNA Testing – Pervis Payne’s Life Depends on It.

By Alana Bleimann TENNESSEE – Pervis Payne may know this coming Wednesday if he’ll be killed Dec. 3 or no ...

By Alana Bleimann TENNESSEE – Pervis Payne may know this coming Wednesday if he’ll be killed Dec. 3 or not. On September 16 of this year, the Shelby County Criminal Court will issue a decision on Payn ...

September 15, 2020
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Coalition Groups Urge District Attorney to Support DNA Testing for Man on Death Row

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|Date: September 01, 2020
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Coalition Groups Urge District Attorney to Support DNA Testing for Man on Death Row

By Julietta Bisharyan MEMPHIS - For more than three decades after being sentenced to death, Pervis Payne ...

By Julietta Bisharyan MEMPHIS - For more than three decades after being sentenced to death, Pervis Payne has maintained his innocence. With his execution date on Dec. 3, 2020, looming, DNA testing cou ...

September 01, 2020
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Memphis District Attorney Opposes Death Row Man’s Petition for DNA Testing

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|Date: August 01, 2020
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Memphis District Attorney Opposes Death Row Man’s Petition for DNA Testing

By Zhuoshan Liu MEMPHIS, TN - Friday, Pervis Payne’s attorney’s request for DNA testing was opposed by Sh ...

By Zhuoshan Liu MEMPHIS, TN - Friday, Pervis Payne’s attorney’s request for DNA testing was opposed by Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich. Payne, a Black man with an intellectual disability a ...

August 01, 2020
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Arkansas Cooperates with the Innocence Project and the ACLU to Conduct Testing for Ledell Lee’s Case

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|Date: February 04, 2020
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Arkansas Cooperates with the Innocence Project and the ACLU to Conduct Testing for Ledell Lee’s Case

By Coco Wang Officials in Jacksonville, Arkansas, agreed to the DNA and fingerprint testing for Ledell Le ...

By Coco Wang Officials in Jacksonville, Arkansas, agreed to the DNA and fingerprint testing for Ledell Lee's case after the Innocence Project, the ACLU, the law firm Hogan Lovells US LLP, and Little R ...

February 04, 2020
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Exoneration for Wrongfully Convicted Man after 35 Years of Maintaining Innocence

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|Date: January 29, 2020
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Exoneration for Wrongfully Convicted Man after 35 Years of Maintaining Innocence

By Brittany Mason After serving 25 years in prison, DNA sampling exonerates Rafael Ruiz from a sexual ass ...

By Brittany Mason After serving 25 years in prison, DNA sampling exonerates Rafael Ruiz from a sexual assault accusation. Rafael Ruiz was accused of an East Harlem sexual assault incident in 1984. Whe ...

January 29, 2020
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Flawed Evidence and Hasty Execution Leads to ACLU and Innocence Project Lawsuit against Arkansas

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|Date: January 24, 2020
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Flawed Evidence and Hasty Execution Leads to ACLU and Innocence Project Lawsuit against Arkansas

By Maxwell C. Myrhum The shroud of uncertainty behind the execution of Ledell Lee has lead the American ...

By Maxwell C. Myrhum The shroud of uncertainty behind the execution of Ledell Lee has lead the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Innocence Project, and Arkansas lawyers to sue the State, intend ...

January 24, 2020
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Why Are Prosecutors Still Seeking to Execute People Who Have Innocence Claims and Untested DNA?

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|Date: November 24, 2019
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Why Are Prosecutors Still Seeking to Execute People Who Have Innocence Claims and Untested DNA?

In these last two months of 2019, one man has been executed and two others are facing execution despite c ...

In these last two months of 2019, one man has been executed and two others are facing execution despite claims that they can show they don’t belong on death row. By Lauren Gill On Nov. 15, Texas’s hig ...

November 24, 2019
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Judge Issues Ruling on DNA Issue in “Rideshare Rapist” Case

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|Date: July 25, 2019
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Judge Issues Ruling on DNA Issue in “Rideshare Rapist” Case

by Lauren Bradley San Francisco - In Department 26 of the Hall of Justice, Judge Lam gave his ruling afte ...

by Lauren Bradley San Francisco - In Department 26 of the Hall of Justice, Judge Lam gave his ruling after more than two hours of further oral argument in a hearing on motions to suppress evidence and ...

July 25, 2019
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Analysis: Death Penalty Column Misses Some Marks

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|Date: October 12, 2016
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Analysis: Death Penalty Column Misses Some Marks

I read Rich Rifkin’s death penalty column with interest. He started it with a note that was interesting, ...

I read Rich Rifkin’s death penalty column with interest. He started it with a note that was interesting, pointing out that Prop. 62 asks voters to get rid of a “death penalty that we don’t have.” I s ...

October 12, 2016
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Justice Watch: Trump and the Exoneration of the Central Park 5

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|Date: October 11, 2016
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Justice Watch: Trump and the Exoneration of the Central Park 5

Back in 1989, Donald Trump took out a full page ad calling for the death penalty in the case of the Centr ...

Back in 1989, Donald Trump took out a full page ad calling for the death penalty in the case of the Central Park Five. In his ad, he wrote, “How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalizat ...

October 11, 2016
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Is DNA Evidence Less Than Bulletproof?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 25, 2015
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Is DNA Evidence Less Than Bulletproof?

It is worth reading the entire and stunning story from Frontline, The Marshall Project and Fusion, “The S ...

It is worth reading the entire and stunning story from Frontline, The Marshall Project and Fusion, “The Surprisingly Imperfect Science of DNA Testing: How a proven tool may be anything but.” The probl ...

June 25, 2015
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Student Opinion: The COVID-19 Crisis In India Is A Moral Crisis For Us

Former Supreme Court Justice and Civil Rights Leader Cruz Reynoso Passes Away at Age 90

Guest Commentary: Davis Should Plan to Build More Housing

California Capitol Watch: ‘Silenced No More Act’ – Empowering Survivors of Workplace Harassment and Discrimination

Guest Commentary: Nevada Prosecutors Are Standing in the Way of Abolishing the Death Penalty

Defendant’s Self-Representation in Courtroom Concerns Oft-Interrupted Judge

With Date Changed Nearly 2 Dozen Times, Judges Orders 3-Year Case to Trial

Judge Convinces Agitated Defendant Wanting to Represent Himself to Get Defense Attorney

A New Report Finds Hate Crimes Persist in 2021

Sacramento Police Officer Arrested for Felony Perjury, Dragnet Could Net More Arrests; DA Scrambling to Limit Damage to Cases

After Years of Trying, Joseph Webster Finally Finds Relief in 2006 Tennessee Conviction

After Years of Trying, Joseph Webster Finally Finds Relief in 2006 Tennessee Conviction

Looking Back: DNA Nice Start but No Cure-All

Looking Back: DNA Nice Start but No Cure-All

Exonerated Roscetti 4 Oppose Patrick O’Brien for Cook County State Attorney with History of Wrongful Convictions

Exonerated Roscetti 4 Oppose Patrick O’Brien for Cook County State Attorney with History of Wrongful Convictions

EXONERATIONS: Part XI – FINAL: Discussion and Conclusions

EXONERATIONS: Part XI – FINAL: Discussion and Conclusions

On Wednesday, a Tennessee Court Decides on Allowing DNA Testing – Pervis Payne’s Life Depends on It.

On Wednesday, a Tennessee Court Decides on Allowing DNA Testing – Pervis Payne’s Life Depends on It.

Coalition Groups Urge District Attorney to Support DNA Testing for Man on Death Row

Coalition Groups Urge District Attorney to Support DNA Testing for Man on Death Row

Memphis District Attorney Opposes Death Row Man’s Petition for DNA Testing

Memphis District Attorney Opposes Death Row Man’s Petition for DNA Testing

Arkansas Cooperates with the Innocence Project and the ACLU to Conduct Testing for Ledell Lee’s Case

Arkansas Cooperates with the Innocence Project and the ACLU to Conduct Testing for Ledell Lee’s Case

Exoneration for Wrongfully Convicted Man after 35 Years of Maintaining Innocence

Exoneration for Wrongfully Convicted Man after 35 Years of Maintaining Innocence

Flawed Evidence and Hasty Execution Leads to ACLU and Innocence Project Lawsuit against Arkansas

Flawed Evidence and Hasty Execution Leads to ACLU and Innocence Project Lawsuit against Arkansas

Why Are Prosecutors Still Seeking to Execute People Who Have Innocence Claims and Untested DNA?

Why Are Prosecutors Still Seeking to Execute People Who Have Innocence Claims and Untested DNA?

Judge Issues Ruling on DNA Issue in “Rideshare Rapist” Case

Judge Issues Ruling on DNA Issue in “Rideshare Rapist” Case

Analysis: Death Penalty Column Misses Some Marks

Analysis: Death Penalty Column Misses Some Marks

Justice Watch: Trump and the Exoneration of the Central Park 5

Justice Watch: Trump and the Exoneration of the Central Park 5

Is DNA Evidence Less Than Bulletproof?

Is DNA Evidence Less Than Bulletproof?

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