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Looking Back: NY Must Pass Legislation to Protects Youths from Invasive Police Interrogations

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|Date: February 12, 2023
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Looking Back: NY Must Pass Legislation to Protects Youths from Invasive Police Interrogations

By Jeffrey Deskovic This article was originally published this past week by the Queens Daily Eagle Coerce ...

By Jeffrey Deskovic This article was originally published this past week by the Queens Daily Eagle Coerced, false confessions have caused wrongful convictions in 29 percent of the DNA-proven wrongful ...

February 12, 2023
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 173: Simon Cole, Director of National Registry of Exonerations

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|Date: November 07, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 173: Simon Cole, Director of National Registry of Exonerations

https://youtu.be/oo9MJb3lFQg The advent of DNA testing has transformed the criminal legal system since 19 ...

https://youtu.be/oo9MJb3lFQg The advent of DNA testing has transformed the criminal legal system since 1989. For the first time, DNA testing provided absolute proof that people were convicted of crim ...

November 07, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Children Deserve Protections that Too Many Aren’t Getting in the US Justice System

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|Date: March 10, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Children Deserve Protections that Too Many Aren’t Getting in the US Justice System

During interrogation police have used shackling, lies, threats and coercion to get false confessions – ta ...

During interrogation police have used shackling, lies, threats and coercion to get false confessions – tactics that fly in face of international norms. By Miriam Aroni Krinsky and Norman L. Reimer Las ...

March 10, 2022
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Commentary: We Talk about Qualified Immunity, How about Police Accountability for False Confessions and False Testimony?

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|Date: June 02, 2021
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Commentary: We Talk about Qualified Immunity, How about Police Accountability for False Confessions and False Testimony?

By David M. Greenwald A recent focus in police reform has zeroed in on qualified immunity. This is an im ...

By David M. Greenwald A recent focus in police reform has zeroed in on qualified immunity. This is an important focus because qualified immunity helps to protect not only law enforcement officers, bu ...

June 02, 2021
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Looking Back: Exposing the Death Penalty, Part 3

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|Date: April 04, 2021
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Looking Back: Exposing the Death Penalty, Part 3

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

By Jeffrey Deskovic "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 ...

April 04, 2021
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EXONERATIONS: Part V – Fabricated Evidence: Forensic Deception, Planted Evidence and Forged Confessions

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|Date: September 25, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part V – Fabricated Evidence: Forensic Deception, Planted Evidence and Forged Confessions

By Kelsea Valerio (This is the fifth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonera ...

By Kelsea Valerio (This is the fifth 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) ...

September 25, 2020
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Looking Back: The Reid Technique – Strong Risk of False Confessions and Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: August 09, 2020
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Looking Back: The Reid Technique – Strong Risk of False Confessions and 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 ...

August 09, 2020
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Prosecutor at Fault for ‘Intentionally’ Deceiving Jurors, Who Sentenced an Innocent Man to Death

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|Date: January 26, 2020
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Prosecutor at Fault for ‘Intentionally’ Deceiving Jurors, Who Sentenced an Innocent Man to Death

By Linh Nguyen New evidence shows that prosecutor Robert Heyman “intentionally deceived the jurors” at a ...

By Linh Nguyen New evidence shows that prosecutor Robert Heyman “intentionally deceived the jurors” at a murder trial in Pinellas County, Florida. James Dailey was sentenced to death after being found ...

January 26, 2020
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Learning From the Past: Work in the 40s and 50s Should Have Taught about Wrongful Convictions

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 13, 2019
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Learning From the Past: Work in the 40s and 50s Should Have Taught about Wrongful Convictions

In my reading, I happened upon the book, The Court of Last Resort, written by lawyer-turned-author Erle S ...

In my reading, I happened upon the book, The Court of Last Resort, written by lawyer-turned-author Erle Stanley Gardner – most notable as being author of the Perry Mason series. From the late 40s unti ...

December 13, 2019
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Lester Holt Talks about Why People Falsely Confess to Crimes

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 08, 2019
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Lester Holt Talks about Why People Falsely Confess to Crimes

When a motion to suppress came forward in the Daniel Marsh case about five years ago, I was alarmed to di ...

When a motion to suppress came forward in the Daniel Marsh case about five years ago, I was alarmed to discovered that they took the young man, barely 16, interrogated him for about five to seven hour ...

September 08, 2019
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Controversial Interrogation Method to End?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 19, 2017
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Controversial Interrogation Method to End?

Confessions have been a big source of concern for a number of years, as the growing body of research show ...

Confessions have been a big source of concern for a number of years, as the growing body of research shows that false confessions are one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions – and, in case a ...

March 19, 2017
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Sunday Commentary II: Can We Elevate Our Level of Discourse by Cleaning Up Our Verbiage?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 23, 2015
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Sunday Commentary II: Can We Elevate Our Level of Discourse by Cleaning Up Our Verbiage?

Twice this week I have been taken aback by the casual use of invective pejorative phrases in our everyday ...

Twice this week I have been taken aback by the casual use of invective pejorative phrases in our everyday political discourse. As we head into another election year in the political cycle, it seems li ...

August 23, 2015
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Judge Kozinski: “When prosecutors misbehave, don’t keep it a secret”

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|Date: July 07, 2015
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Judge Kozinski: “When prosecutors misbehave, don’t keep it a secret”

This part two of Judge Alex Kozinski’s article on legal system reform and prosecutorial misconduct. Back ...

This part two of Judge Alex Kozinski’s article on legal system reform and prosecutorial misconduct. Back in February, he, along with two others judges, expressed frustration and anger that California ...

July 07, 2015
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Judge Kozinski Believes It Is Time to Rein in Prosecutors – Part 1

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 06, 2015
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Judge Kozinski Believes It Is Time to Rein in Prosecutors – Part 1

Judge Alex Kozinski is probably not the most likely reformer – he was appointed to the Ninth Circuit of A ...

Judge Alex Kozinski is probably not the most likely reformer – he was appointed to the Ninth Circuit of Appeals in 1985, at the age of 35, by President Ronald Reagan. Back in February, he, along with ...

July 06, 2015
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Justice Matters: Plea Bargains Are Ubiquitous. But Are They Un-American?

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|Date: June 23, 2015
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Justice Matters: Plea Bargains Are Ubiquitous. But Are They Un-American?

By Jeff Adachi Imagine you’re arrested for a crime you didn’t commit. You can’t afford bail. While you pa ...

By Jeff Adachi Imagine you’re arrested for a crime you didn’t commit. You can’t afford bail. While you panic in your jail cell, your children are at home alone and your boss wants to know why you can’ ...

June 23, 2015
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Commentary: Victim’s Son Responds to Billingsley Polemic and Restores Our Faith

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 03, 2014
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Commentary: Victim’s Son Responds to Billingsley Polemic and Restores Our Faith

We were stunned and appalled when Lloyd Billingsley, a journalist and would-be author of a book on Daniel ...

We were stunned and appalled when Lloyd Billingsley, a journalist and would-be author of a book on Daniel Marsh, wrote an overly-sensational column that likened Daniel Marsh to a “superpredator” and s ...

October 03, 2014
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Vanguard Analysis: Profiting from the Marsh Tragedy?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 30, 2014
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Vanguard Analysis: Profiting from the Marsh Tragedy?

The verdict in the guilt phase was hardly issued on Friday when an individual, Lloyd Billingsley, a journ ...

The verdict in the guilt phase was hardly issued on Friday when an individual, Lloyd Billingsley, a journalist by trade, rendered a very stark analysis of the case. Drawing upon forensic psychologist ...

September 30, 2014
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My View: Marsh and Juvenile Brain Development

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 28, 2014
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My View: Marsh and Juvenile Brain Development

This week a Yolo County jury took a couple of hours to convict Daniel Marsh of the April 2013 double homi ...

This week a Yolo County jury took a couple of hours to convict Daniel Marsh of the April 2013 double homicide of Oliver Northup and Claudia Maupin. This was not a close call, as the very brief deliber ...

September 28, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Marsh Trial Begins Today, What Will We Learn?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 25, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Marsh Trial Begins Today, What Will We Learn?

It has been nearly a year and a half since young Daniel Marsh stunned the community by committing a bruta ...

It has been nearly a year and a half since young Daniel Marsh stunned the community by committing a brutal double-homicide. Jury selection will begin today in a case that features a plea of not guilty ...

August 25, 2014
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