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Man Accused of Grisly Murder Proven Innocent by DNA Evidence

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|Date: February 14, 2020
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Man Accused of Grisly Murder Proven Innocent by DNA Evidence

By Maxwell C. Myrhum After nearly 15 years, an El Dorado man wrongly convicted of a murder decades ago ha ...

By Maxwell C. Myrhum After nearly 15 years, an El Dorado man wrongly convicted of a murder decades ago has been released from prison with the help of the Innocence Project. Ricky Davis was released fr ...

February 14, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 39 – Tirpak Spends 25 Years Wrongly Imprisoned, Freed by SB 1437

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 05, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 39 – Tirpak Spends 25 Years Wrongly Imprisoned, Freed by SB 1437

Early in 2019, Michael Tirpak became the third person released from prison under SB 1437. He had served t ...

Early in 2019, Michael Tirpak became the third person released from prison under SB 1437. He had served time in prison since 1996 following his conviction on first-degree murder. Prosecutors said he w ...

February 05, 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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Five Jurists Said Donnie Lance Deserved a New Sentence, Georgia Executed Him Anyway

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|Date: February 02, 2020
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Five Jurists Said Donnie Lance Deserved a New Sentence, Georgia Executed Him Anyway

Three Supreme Court justices and others said competent counsel could have saved his life. By Kyle C. Barr ...

Three Supreme Court justices and others said competent counsel could have saved his life. By Kyle C. Barry When jurors in Walton County, Georgia, decided that Donnie Cleveland Lance should die for the ...

February 02, 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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Judge Rejects DA’s Attempt to Deny 1437 Hearing, Asks for Briefing on Prima Facie Showing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 24, 2020
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Judge Rejects DA’s Attempt to Deny 1437 Hearing, Asks for Briefing on Prima Facie Showing

Judge Paul Richardson rejected a request from Deputy DA Ryan Couzens to rule that the SB 1437 petitions f ...

Judge Paul Richardson rejected a request from Deputy DA Ryan Couzens to rule that the SB 1437 petitions for James Olague and Ernesto Arellano do not qualify for relief under the new felony murder law ...

January 24, 2020
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Taxpayers Face Escalating Liability as Wrongly Convicted Inmate Sues CDCR for Facilitating Hate Crime

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 22, 2020
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Taxpayers Face Escalating Liability as Wrongly Convicted Inmate Sues CDCR for Facilitating Hate Crime

The Vanguard has learned that a pre-dawn 911 call from R.J. Donovan Prison led to an ambulance transporti ...

The Vanguard has learned that a pre-dawn 911 call from R.J. Donovan Prison led to an ambulance transporting a high-profile prisoner to Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center (San Diego). Last Friday (Januar ...

January 22, 2020
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Justice Denied in Ronnie Long Case

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: January 10, 2020
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Justice Denied in Ronnie Long Case

US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals States DNA Evidence Withheld for 30 Years Has “Minimal” Probative Value B ...

US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals States DNA Evidence Withheld for 30 Years Has “Minimal” Probative Value By Danielle Silva The United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals released an opinion upholdin ...

January 10, 2020
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Felipe Rodriguez Exonerated of All Charges in 1987 Queens Murder Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 31, 2019
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Felipe Rodriguez Exonerated of All Charges in 1987 Queens Murder Case

(From Press Release – Innocence Project) - (New York – December 30, 2019) Today, the Hon. Joseph Zayas of ...

(From Press Release – Innocence Project) - (New York – December 30, 2019) Today, the Hon. Joseph Zayas of Queens County Supreme Court granted a motion to vacate the 1990 conviction of Innocence Projec ...

December 31, 2019
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 21 – Dusty Turner Wrongly Convicted in a Bad Virginia System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 11, 2019
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 21 – Dusty Turner Wrongly Convicted in a Bad Virginia System

In 1986, Dusty Turner was convicted of 1st degree murder and abduction and sentenced to 82 years in priso ...

In 1986, Dusty Turner was convicted of 1st degree murder and abduction and sentenced to 82 years in prison in Virginia - a state lagging behind in criminal justice reform and which has no parole. A fo ...

December 11, 2019
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Yolo County 1437 Case Put Off until January, Yolo DA Continues to Challenge Felony Murder Reform

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 21, 2019
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Yolo County 1437 Case Put Off until January, Yolo DA Continues to Challenge Felony Murder Reform

While the Fourth Appellate District of California has ruled that SB 1437 is constitutional, the Yolo Coun ...

While the Fourth Appellate District of California has ruled that SB 1437 is constitutional, the Yolo County District Attorney is continuing to fight it. Two cases before the Fourth District out of Sa ...

November 21, 2019
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Has Granted Rodney Reed an Indefinite Stay of Execution

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|Date: November 16, 2019
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Has Granted Rodney Reed an Indefinite Stay of Execution

(From Press Release – Innocence Project) On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously vo ...

(From Press Release – Innocence Project) On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously voted in favor of a 120-day reprieve of Rodney Reed’s execution. Now, the decision lies with Gove ...

November 16, 2019
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Couzens Ambushes Ajay Dev Team with a Transcript Trap

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 29, 2019
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Couzens Ambushes Ajay Dev Team with a Transcript Trap

Monday’s evidentiary hearing of the ten-year-old Ajay Dev case began with more of the same from Deputy DA ...

Monday’s evidentiary hearing of the ten-year-old Ajay Dev case began with more of the same from Deputy DA Ryan Couzens. He began the proceedings complaining that his copies of the discovered notes fr ...

October 29, 2019
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Find Out Whether Lamar Johnson Is Innocent of Murder

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|Date: October 25, 2019
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Find Out Whether Lamar Johnson Is Innocent of Murder

A trial court’s rejection of the findings by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s Conviction Integrity Unit is ...

A trial court’s rejection of the findings by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s Conviction Integrity Unit is the latest example of the powers that be standing in the way of justice. By Somil Trivedi and A ...

October 25, 2019
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My View: DA Plays Hardball in Efforts to Free Ajay Dev

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 05, 2019
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My View: DA Plays Hardball in Efforts to Free Ajay Dev

We are two weeks out from another evidentiary hearing for Ajay Dev, but perhaps the most telling part of ...

We are two weeks out from another evidentiary hearing for Ajay Dev, but perhaps the most telling part of the last one that occurred on September 12 is that DA Ryan Couzens was going to play hardball a ...

October 05, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 15: Ajay Dev Speaks from Prison for First Time

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 02, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 15: Ajay Dev Speaks from Prison for First Time

In 2009, Ajay Dev was wrongly convicted of 76 counts of raping his adopted daughter and sentenced to 378 ...

In 2009, Ajay Dev was wrongly convicted of 76 counts of raping his adopted daughter and sentenced to 378 years. Now, a decade later, he is having his Habeas Corpus hearing in Yolo County, attempting t ...

October 02, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Deputy DA’s Request for All of Dev’s Previous Attorney Files Denied

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: October 01, 2019
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Deputy DA’s Request for All of Dev’s Previous Attorney Files Denied

By Danielle Silva In light of Ajay Dev filing an Ineffective Assistance of Counsel claim, the prosecution ...

By Danielle Silva In light of Ajay Dev filing an Ineffective Assistance of Counsel claim, the prosecution’s request for all of Dev’s previous attorney’s trial transcripts was denied. Since 2009, Ajay ...

October 01, 2019
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My View: Ajay Dev Meets the Notorious Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Ryan J. Couzens

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 14, 2019
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My View: Ajay Dev Meets the Notorious Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Ryan J. Couzens

It is really too bad that they don’t allow cameras into courtrooms – I think the public needs to see Depu ...

It is really too bad that they don’t allow cameras into courtrooms – I think the public needs to see Deputy DA Ryan Couzens in action in order to have a proper perspective on him. He was Jeff Reisig’ ...

September 14, 2019
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New Evidence Leads to 1991 Trinity County Murder to Be Overturned

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 30, 2019
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New Evidence Leads to 1991 Trinity County Murder to Be Overturned

Last week, a man wrongfully convicted of murder in a case that occurred in Trinity County, but was tried ...

Last week, a man wrongfully convicted of murder in a case that occurred in Trinity County, but was tried by a special prosecutor in Solano County, was exonerated based on newly discovered evidence, in ...

August 30, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Trump Justice Dept. Holds Keys to Release of Terror Suspect Whose Conviction Was Overturned

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|Date: August 03, 2019
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Trump Justice Dept. Holds Keys to Release of Terror Suspect Whose Conviction Was Overturned

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – President Donald Trump – no friend of Musli ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – President Donald Trump – no friend of Muslims with his policy to ban them from the U.S. – may hold the keys to the release of Hamid Hayat, ...

August 03, 2019
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