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Looking Back: Misidentification: The Leading Cause Of Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: July 26, 2020
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Looking Back: Misidentification: The Leading Cause Of Wrongful Convictions

"Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The West ...

"Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as well as across the c ...

July 26, 2020
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Looking Back: The Complicity of Silence

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|Date: July 12, 2020
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Looking Back: The Complicity of Silence

"Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The West ...

"Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as well as across the c ...

July 12, 2020
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Looking Back: Case Not Handled ‘Righteously’

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|Date: July 05, 2020
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Looking Back: Case Not Handled ‘Righteously’

(Editor’s note: This is the first installment of the new weekly column "Looking Back." "Looking Back" wi ...

(Editor’s note: This is the first installment of the new weekly column "Looking Back." "Looking Back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeffrey Deskovic previously wrote while a columnist at The ...

July 05, 2020
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Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 2, Franky Carrillo

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|Date: June 12, 2020
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Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 2, Franky Carrillo

Franky Carrillo was one of the cases featured on Netflix’s series, “The Innocence Files.” The story begi ...

Franky Carrillo was one of the cases featured on Netflix’s series, “The Innocence Files.” The story begins in 1991 when Donald Sarpy was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting as he was standing in t ...

June 12, 2020
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My View: “Isn’t that Appalling to Justice?”

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|Date: May 09, 2020
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My View: “Isn’t that Appalling to Justice?”

Is Justice Even Possible 44 Years Later? Innocent until proven guilty. That’s the hallmark of our just ...

Is Justice Even Possible 44 Years Later? Innocent until proven guilty. That’s the hallmark of our justice system. But what happens when justice becomes injustice and the innocent become wrongly co ...

May 09, 2020
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Wrongly Convicted Man Gets a Hearing Before the Fourth Circuit After 44 Years

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 08, 2020
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Wrongly Convicted Man Gets a Hearing Before the Fourth Circuit After 44 Years

After 44 years, Ronnie Long, convicted—and many people, including Jamie Lau from the Duke Project for the ...

After 44 years, Ronnie Long, convicted—and many people, including Jamie Lau from the Duke Project for the Innocence, believe wrongly convicted on bad eye witness evidence—finally got a hearing before ...

May 08, 2020
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Netflix’s ‘Innocence Files’ Continue with Limitations of Human Memory

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|Date: April 23, 2020
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Netflix’s ‘Innocence Files’ Continue with Limitations of Human Memory

By Nancy Martinez The second subseries of Netflix’s "The Innocence Files" focuses on two wrongful convict ...

By Nancy Martinez The second subseries of Netflix’s "The Innocence Files" focuses on two wrongful convictions caused by mistaken witness identifications. Episodes Four and Five investigate the case of ...

April 23, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 56 – Duke Wrongful Conviction Clinic Discusses Ronnie Long

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 03, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 56 – Duke Wrongful Conviction Clinic Discusses Ronnie Long

Ronnie Long has served nearly 44 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was arrested in 1976 o ...

Ronnie Long has served nearly 44 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was arrested in 1976 on trespass charges, charged and later convicted of rape, sentenced to 80 years and has been in ...

April 03, 2020
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Witness Claims He Identified Intruder by Voice and Height during A Cold Show

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: January 14, 2020
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Witness Claims He Identified Intruder by Voice and Height during A Cold Show

By Danielle Silva A man states he identified an intruder in an alleyway by voice after he chased the intr ...

By Danielle Silva A man states he identified an intruder in an alleyway by voice after he chased the intruder to the front door of the apartment complex, later stating he identified an individual appr ...

January 14, 2020
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My View: Reading Sacco-Vanzetti as a Wrongful Convictions Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 28, 2019
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My View: Reading Sacco-Vanzetti as a Wrongful Convictions Case

Over the holiday break, one of my books I am reading is the case of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1921. At the h ...

Over the holiday break, one of my books I am reading is the case of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1921. At the height of the red scare and following a series of high profile bombings, Nicola Sacco and Bartol ...

December 28, 2019
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My View: Audit Report Reveals Problems with Davis Policing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 07, 2019
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My View: Audit Report Reveals Problems with Davis Policing

The city of Davis efforts at police oversight really began in 2005 and 2006, resulting in the creation of ...

The city of Davis efforts at police oversight really began in 2005 and 2006, resulting in the creation of the Police Ombudsman. This occurred nearly a full decade before a national debate on policing ...

December 07, 2019
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Davis Police Auditor Admonishes Handling of Eyewitness Identification in Kidnapping Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 05, 2019
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Davis Police Auditor Admonishes Handling of Eyewitness Identification in Kidnapping Case

In October 2018, the Yolo County DA’s Office announced it was dropping charges against Sander Findlay, af ...

In October 2018, the Yolo County DA’s Office announced it was dropping charges against Sander Findlay, after holding him in custody for 20 months on kidnapping charges. The DA’s office finally concede ...

December 05, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Forget the Lurid, the Masturbation Case Was All about Identification

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 22, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Forget the Lurid, the Masturbation Case Was All about Identification

While the nature of the case and the fact that a man was allegedly masturbating on a jogging path at Slid ...

While the nature of the case and the fact that a man was allegedly masturbating on a jogging path at Slide Hill Park got people’s attention, at the end of the day this was really a case about eyewitne ...

September 22, 2019
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Governor Brown Signs Eyewitness Identification Reform Bill

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|Date: October 03, 2018
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Governor Brown Signs Eyewitness Identification Reform Bill

New Law Requires Best Practices for Conducting Photo & Live Lineups (From Press Release) - California ...

New Law Requires Best Practices for Conducting Photo & Live Lineups (From Press Release) - California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 923 which mandates statewide use of best prac ...

October 03, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Marsh Is the Extreme Example of Juvenile Crime; This Is More Typical

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 24, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Marsh Is the Extreme Example of Juvenile Crime; This Is More Typical

On January 24, 2011, a white male in his twenties, a musician in a band, was walking home at 10:30 pm on ...

On January 24, 2011, a white male in his twenties, a musician in a band, was walking home at 10:30 pm on a Monday night in West Sacramento. He was stopped by a person in a Michael Jordan jersey who a ...

September 24, 2018
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Governor Brown Signs Post-Conviction Discovery Bill

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|Date: September 20, 2018
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Governor Brown Signs Post-Conviction Discovery Bill

New Law Provides Innocent People Access to Materials Available at Trial (From Press Release)— Governor Je ...

New Law Provides Innocent People Access to Materials Available at Trial (From Press Release)— Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law sponsored by the California Innocence Coalition, a group made ...

September 20, 2018
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California Innocence Bill Awaits Governor’s Signature

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 11, 2018
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California Innocence Bill Awaits Governor’s Signature

The Innocence Project this week pointed out that “far too may innocent people have been wrongly convicted ...

The Innocence Project this week pointed out that “far too may innocent people have been wrongly convicted as a result of prosecutorial misconduct.” They cite data from a survey that looked at five di ...

September 11, 2018
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Bill Designed to Keep Innocent People out of Jail and Prevent Wrongful Convictions

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 21, 2018
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Bill Designed to Keep Innocent People out of Jail and Prevent Wrongful Convictions

Since 1989, experts estimate that nearly 200 people have been wrongly convicted in California. According ...

Since 1989, experts estimate that nearly 200 people have been wrongly convicted in California. According to the Innocence Project, mistaken eyewitness identification played a role in over 70 percent ...

July 21, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: This Is What a Wrongful Conviction Looks Like

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 11, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: This Is What a Wrongful Conviction Looks Like

In the summer of 2009, the Vanguard still only a few years old, I got a call from a family to come out an ...

In the summer of 2009, the Vanguard still only a few years old, I got a call from a family to come out and meet with them at their home in Carmichael. Little did I realize at the time that this was o ...

February 11, 2018
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Was Oscar Cervantes Wrongfully Convicted of Being the Shooter in 2002 Halloween Homicide?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 25, 2016
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Was Oscar Cervantes Wrongfully Convicted of Being the Shooter in 2002 Halloween Homicide?

In 2006, Oscar Cervantes was convicted and sentenced to life without parole for shooting Robert Stepper a ...

In 2006, Oscar Cervantes was convicted and sentenced to life without parole for shooting Robert Stepper and Eric Folsom in 2002 in the so-called Halloween Homicide Case. However, on Saturday, at the ...

September 25, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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