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After Seven Years, Dev Appeal to Be Heard Wednesday

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 14, 2016
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After Seven Years, Dev Appeal to Be Heard Wednesday

(From Press Release) - 378 Years Gone in the Blink of an Eye! That is what hundreds of people are hoping ...

(From Press Release) - 378 Years Gone in the Blink of an Eye! That is what hundreds of people are hoping to witness. For seven years, Advocates for Ajay have marched, demonstrated, petitioned, writte ...

October 14, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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

Posted by David Greenwald
|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
| by David Greenwald

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The Battle for Justice: Ajay Dev’s Appeal

Posted by ResJudicata
|Date: August 20, 2016
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The Battle for Justice: Ajay Dev’s Appeal

The scurrilous, unconscionable conviction of Ajay Dev stands as monument to the overt politicalization to ...

The scurrilous, unconscionable conviction of Ajay Dev stands as monument to the overt politicalization toward the canons of judicial ethics, sponsored on behalf of the morally indictable and impeachab ...

August 20, 2016
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Letter: Look at the Evidence in Ajay Dev Case

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 17, 2016
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Letter: Look at the Evidence in Ajay Dev Case

by Patty Pursell Seven years ago, Ajay Dev was wrongfully convicted in Yolo County and sentenced to 378 y ...

by Patty Pursell Seven years ago, Ajay Dev was wrongfully convicted in Yolo County and sentenced to 378 years for a crime that many know he did not commit. There have been hundreds of people that hav ...

August 17, 2016
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Letter: Ajay Dev Appeal

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 16, 2016
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Letter: Ajay Dev Appeal

By Tom Williams In the past few years, cases such as Brendan Dassey (Making a Murderer) and Adnan Syed (S ...

By Tom Williams In the past few years, cases such as Brendan Dassey (Making a Murderer) and Adnan Syed (Serial) have gone from the courtroom to become pop culture phenomena with millions of Americans ...

August 16, 2016
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Withheld Evidence by Prosecutors Leads to 30 Years on Death Row

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 04, 2016
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Withheld Evidence by Prosecutors Leads to 30 Years on Death Row

By Anna Arceneaux The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office intentionally withheld critical evidence in ...

By Anna Arceneaux The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office intentionally withheld critical evidence in 1986 when it prosecuted 18-year-old Terry Williams and won a death sentence. Earlier this mont ...

July 04, 2016
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Exonoree Blasts Trump for 1989 Ad

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 21, 2015
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Exonoree Blasts Trump for 1989 Ad

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 ...

August 21, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: Prosecutor Apologizes For Sending the Wrong Man to Death Row

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 23, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: Prosecutor Apologizes For Sending the Wrong Man to Death Row

At the outset, I recommend the readers read the full account of Attorney A.M. "Marty" Stroud III, of Shre ...

At the outset, I recommend the readers read the full account of Attorney A.M. "Marty" Stroud III, of Shreveport, who was the lead prosecutor in the December 1984 first-degree murder trial of Glenn For ...

March 23, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Report: Conviction Integrity Units Form Vital Link For Reform Efforts

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 12, 2014
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Report: Conviction Integrity Units Form Vital Link For Reform Efforts

In October of this year, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that his office has created ...

In October of this year, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that his office has created “a Conviction Integrity Unit to review all post conviction assertions of innocence.” In the pre ...

December 12, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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The Innocence of Ajay Dev

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 18, 2014
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The Innocence of Ajay Dev

By Patty Pursell (Editor’s note: This was the speech delivered by Patty Pursell in accepting the Vanguard ...

By Patty Pursell (Editor’s note: This was the speech delivered by Patty Pursell in accepting the Vanguard Justice Award for her work on behalf of Ajay Dev) I cannot thank David Greenwald enough for st ...

November 18, 2014
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Commentary: Are there Innocent People on Death Row?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 06, 2014
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Commentary: Are there Innocent People on Death Row?

“A North Carolina death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence on Tuesday was once held up by Supreme Cour ...

“A North Carolina death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence on Tuesday was once held up by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as an example of someone who deserved to die,” reported the Huffington ...

September 06, 2014
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New Evidence of Prosecutorial Misconduct Resulted in Likely Wrongful Execution Willingham

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 30, 2014
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New Evidence of Prosecutorial Misconduct Resulted in Likely Wrongful Execution Willingham

By the Innocence Project The newly formed criminal justice journalism group, The Marshall Project, broke ...

By the Innocence Project The newly formed criminal justice journalism group, The Marshall Project, broke a story in the Washington Post earlier this month revealing new allegations of prosecutorial mi ...

August 30, 2014
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Letter from Ajay Dev on Fifth Anniversary of Wrongful Conviction

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 08, 2014
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Letter from Ajay Dev on Fifth Anniversary of Wrongful Conviction

by Ajay Dev As I write to you it has been exactly 5 years ago to the day since I was sentenced to 378 yea ...

by Ajay Dev As I write to you it has been exactly 5 years ago to the day since I was sentenced to 378 years for a heinous crime I did not commit. I am still imprisoned in spite of my actual innocence ...

August 08, 2014
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