Wrongful Convictions Archives | Page 4 of 4

Grid
List

Was Oscar Cervantes Wrongfully Convicted of Being the Shooter in 2002 Halloween Homicide?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 25, 2016
| (5) Comments

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

| (5) Comments

Read more
Letter: Ajay’s Innocence

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 19, 2016
| (7) Comments

Letter: Ajay’s Innocence

by Teresa Geimer About six years ago, in Yolo County, Ajay Dev was sentenced to 378 years in prison for a ...

by Teresa Geimer About six years ago, in Yolo County, Ajay Dev was sentenced to 378 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. The only evidence against him was a pretext call that his accuser was ...

August 19, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (7) Comments

Read more
Ajay Dev Wrongfully Convicted

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 18, 2016
| (3) Comments

Ajay Dev Wrongfully Convicted

By Bill Pursell One American has been wrongfully imprisoned for 2,608 days, and the injustice that is his ...

By Bill Pursell One American has been wrongfully imprisoned for 2,608 days, and the injustice that is his is far too common today. The national conversation and insight exposing the putrescent America ...

August 18, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (3) Comments

Read more
Sunday Commentary: The Presumption of Guilt?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 20, 2015
| (7) Comments

Sunday Commentary: The Presumption of Guilt?

Back in October, two tragedies occurred related to the drive-by shooting of a 13-year-old. First, a young ...

Back in October, two tragedies occurred related to the drive-by shooting of a 13-year-old. First, a young girl was critically injured when a bullet pierced her home and struck her in the head as she w ...

December 20, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (7) Comments

Read more
Sunday Commentary: How We Can Prevent Wrongful Convictions

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 15, 2015
| (7) Comments

Sunday Commentary: How We Can Prevent Wrongful Convictions

This was the speech I gave last night at the Vanguard Court Watch Event: Preventing Wrongful Convictions. ...

This was the speech I gave last night at the Vanguard Court Watch Event: Preventing Wrongful Convictions. This has been an interesting year for the Vanguard Court Watch. When we started the program ba ...

November 15, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (7) Comments

Read more
Ending Wrongful Convictions

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 26, 2015
| (2) Comments

Ending Wrongful Convictions

by Lorenzo Johnson The record number of exonerations of innocent prisoners last year shows that something ...

by Lorenzo Johnson The record number of exonerations of innocent prisoners last year shows that something is very wrong with our judicial system. If the saying "the proof is in the numbers" is true, t ...

October 26, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (2) Comments

Read more
Governor Signs Bill To Properly Compensate Exonerated Individuals

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 13, 2015
| (4) Comments

Governor Signs Bill To Properly Compensate Exonerated Individuals

In November of 2011, Maurice Caldwell spoke before the first Vanguard Court Watch justice event on Wrongf ...

In November of 2011, Maurice Caldwell spoke before the first Vanguard Court Watch justice event on Wrongful Convictions. Just over six months previously, the then 43-year-old Maurice Caldwell walked o ...

October 13, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (4) Comments

Read more
Eye on the Courts: Is There a Place in the Legal System for Justice and Mercy?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 12, 2015
| (15) Comments

Eye on the Courts: Is There a Place in the Legal System for Justice and Mercy?

Last night 60 Minutes had a segment on Glenn Ford, who spent nearly 30 years on death row, in solitary co ...

Last night 60 Minutes had a segment on Glenn Ford, who spent nearly 30 years on death row, in solitary confinement, in Louisiana's notorious Angola prison – until new evidence revealed he did not comm ...

October 12, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (15) Comments

Read more
The Bane of Prosecutorial Misconduct and What One Man Has Done To Change It

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 01, 2015
| (2) Comments

The Bane of Prosecutorial Misconduct and What One Man Has Done To Change It

Last year when the Vanguard held its annual program for its Court Watch program, it invited Scott Sanders ...

Last year when the Vanguard held its annual program for its Court Watch program, it invited Scott Sanders – an Orange County Deputy Public Defender embroiled in a controversy that would absolutely exp ...

October 01, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (2) Comments

Read more
New Witnesses Might Be Key to Glossip’s Death Penalty Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 25, 2015
| (6) Comments

New Witnesses Might Be Key to Glossip’s Death Penalty Case

A week and a half ago we wrote of an unusual coalition arguing in support of Richard Glossip, convicted a ...

A week and a half ago we wrote of an unusual coalition arguing in support of Richard Glossip, convicted and sentenced to death for arranging the 1997 murder of the owner of a run-down motel he was man ...

September 25, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (6) Comments

Read more
Unusual Coalition Warns Oklahoma Governor About Impending Execution of An Innocent Person

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 14, 2015
| (13) Comments

Unusual Coalition Warns Oklahoma Governor About Impending Execution of An Innocent Person

By most accounts, it is a highly unusual coalition of people who wrote a letter this week to Oklahoma Gov ...

By most accounts, it is a highly unusual coalition of people who wrote a letter this week to Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin asking her to stay the execution of Richard Glossip so that concerns about gu ...

September 14, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (13) Comments

Read more
My View: Life Sentence For Aurora Theater Gunman Shows the Death Penalty Is Dead

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 08, 2015
| (40) Comments

My View: Life Sentence For Aurora Theater Gunman Shows the Death Penalty Is Dead

In June, US Supreme Court Justices sparred over the side issue of whether the death penalty ought to be u ...

In June, US Supreme Court Justices sparred over the side issue of whether the death penalty ought to be unconstitutional in a case that was really about the use of execution drugs. But outside of that ...

August 08, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (40) Comments

Read more
Is DNA Evidence Less Than Bulletproof?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 25, 2015
| (5) Comments

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
| by David Greenwald

| (5) Comments

Read more
Justice Matters: Plea Bargains Are Ubiquitous. But Are They Un-American?

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 23, 2015
| (14) Comments

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
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (14) Comments

Read more
Commentary: Patz Mistrial is Proof Positive For Why Wrongful Convictions Still Happen

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 12, 2015
| (7) Comments

Commentary: Patz Mistrial is Proof Positive For Why Wrongful Convictions Still Happen

Etan Patz was six years old when he disappeared on May 25, 1979, in New York. I, too, was six years old i ...

Etan Patz was six years old when he disappeared on May 25, 1979, in New York. I, too, was six years old in May of 1979. The case would have a profound impact not only on the community but on the way p ...

May 12, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (7) Comments

Read more
Eye on the Courts: Problems of Race, Mental Illness Underlie Wrongful Convictions, Death Penalty

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 05, 2015
| (26) Comments

Eye on the Courts: Problems of Race, Mental Illness Underlie Wrongful Convictions, Death Penalty

The protests and police shootings in Ferguson and Staten Island have focused on the disproportionate blac ...

The protests and police shootings in Ferguson and Staten Island have focused on the disproportionate black and minority component within the legal system. So it should be little surprise that blacks a ...

January 05, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (26) Comments

Read more
Sunday Commentary: Why Government Surveillance is a Threat to All

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 04, 2015
| (27) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Why Government Surveillance is a Threat to All

One of my biggest disappointments with the current administration has been their lack of resolve in curbi ...

One of my biggest disappointments with the current administration has been their lack of resolve in curbing the intrusion of the federal government into the private lives of citizens. In fact, not onl ...

January 04, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (27) Comments

Read more
Different Perspective: How Ferguson Demonstrates the Pitfalls of Eyewitness Identification

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 16, 2014
| (28) Comments

Different Perspective: How Ferguson Demonstrates the Pitfalls of Eyewitness Identification

Professor Ronald Rotunda at Chapman University, Fowler School of Law, writes this week in Justia’s Legal ...

Professor Ronald Rotunda at Chapman University, Fowler School of Law, writes this week in Justia’s Legal Analysis “Verdict” that the Ferguson confrontation between Michael Brown and Officer Darren Wil ...

December 16, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (28) Comments

Read more
Eye on the Courts: Will Yolo Convictions Integrity Unit Go Far Enough?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 13, 2014
| (13) Comments

Eye on the Courts: Will Yolo Convictions Integrity Unit Go Far Enough?

In 2011, Maurice Caldwell came to speak at the Vanguard’s first Dinner and Awards Ceremony. He had just b ...

In 2011, Maurice Caldwell came to speak at the Vanguard’s first Dinner and Awards Ceremony. He had just been released from prison after serving nearly 20 years for a crime he did not commit. Not only ...

October 13, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (13) Comments

Read more
Yolo DA Creates Conviction Integrity Unit

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 08, 2014
| (14) Comments

Yolo DA Creates Conviction Integrity Unit

Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced on Tuesday that his office has created “a Conviction ...

Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced on Tuesday that his office has created “a Conviction Integrity Unit to review all post conviction assertions of innocence.” In the press release, th ...

October 08, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (14) Comments

Read more

1 2 34

Newsletter Sign-Up

Monthly Subscriber Sign-Up