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Manhattan DA Candidates Promise Conviction Integrity Units – but There Are Doubts

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|Date: May 20, 2021
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Manhattan DA Candidates Promise Conviction Integrity Units – but There Are Doubts

By Ankita Joshi MANHATTAN, NY - Dan Quart, district attorney candidate in Manhattan, has promised to buil ...

By Ankita Joshi MANHATTAN, NY - Dan Quart, district attorney candidate in Manhattan, has promised to build a robust conviction integrity unit that “roots out injustice and exonerates wrongfully convic ...

May 20, 2021
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Looking Back: A Man Wrongfully Incarcerated Becomes a Prison Reformer

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|Date: May 17, 2021
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Looking Back: A Man Wrongfully Incarcerated Becomes a Prison Reformer

After spending 16 years wrongfully incarcerated, Jeffrey Deskovic could have re-entered society bitter an ...

After spending 16 years wrongfully incarcerated, Jeffrey Deskovic could have re-entered society bitter and downtrodden. Instead, he began to exhaustively work to help others in his situation. "Looking ...

May 17, 2021
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Looking Back: Christmas in Jail Is Worse than You Can Imagine. Now Imagine If You’ve Been Wrongfully Convicted

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|Date: May 09, 2021
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Looking Back: Christmas in Jail Is Worse than You Can Imagine. Now Imagine If You’ve Been Wrongfully Convicted

I spent 16 holidays behind bars for a crime I didn’t commit. How many other innocent men must have years ...

I spent 16 holidays behind bars for a crime I didn’t commit. How many other innocent men must have years stolen by a corrupt system? By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of article ...

May 09, 2021
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Looking Back: Careers in the Innocence Movement

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|Date: May 02, 2021
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Looking Back: Careers in the Innocence Movement

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 ...

May 02, 2021
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Defendant Lectured by Judge, Faces Possible Sentence to State Prison after Violating Multiple Probation Terms over 5 Years

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|Date: April 27, 2021
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Defendant Lectured by Judge, Faces Possible Sentence to State Prison after Violating Multiple Probation Terms over 5 Years

By Roselyn Poommai SACRAMENTO, CA - After dodging accumulated probation jail terms for the past five year ...

By Roselyn Poommai SACRAMENTO, CA - After dodging accumulated probation jail terms for the past five years and disappearing on his probation officer, defendant Patrick Batad was seriously lectured in ...

April 27, 2021
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Looking Back: A Cop’s Cop – Profile of Jim Trainum

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|Date: April 25, 2021
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Looking Back: A Cop’s Cop – Profile of Jim Trainum

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 25, 2021
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Innocence Project Details Connections between Wrongful Convictions and Police Accountability

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|Date: April 23, 2021
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Innocence Project Details Connections between Wrongful Convictions and Police Accountability

By Michael Wheeler NEW YORK, NY – Since the Ferguson shooting in 2014, activists have made the point agai ...

By Michael Wheeler NEW YORK, NY – Since the Ferguson shooting in 2014, activists have made the point again and again: the American criminal justice system is broken. How to fix it, however, remains a ...

April 23, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 102 – George Ryan and Ending the Illinois Death Penalty

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|Date: April 19, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 102 – George Ryan and Ending the Illinois Death Penalty

George Ryan was a Republican Governor of Illinois. He started his career as an advocate for the death pen ...

George Ryan was a Republican Governor of Illinois. He started his career as an advocate for the death penalty. But during his time as Governor, between cases of wrongful convictions and a torture scan ...

April 19, 2021
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Looking Back: A Glimpse into the Suffering of Families of the Wrongfully Convicted

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|Date: April 18, 2021
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Looking Back: A Glimpse into the Suffering of Families of the Wrongfully Convicted

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 18, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 101: Duke Wrongful Convictions Clinic – Case of Junior Chandler

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|Date: April 12, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 101: Duke Wrongful Convictions Clinic – Case of Junior Chandler

It was the 80s, and child sex cases and ritual cult cases were the paranoia. As the petitioners put it, a ...

It was the 80s, and child sex cases and ritual cult cases were the paranoia. As the petitioners put it, at "the time in which the allegations arose - what has been deemed a period of 'near hysteria' a ...

April 12, 2021
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Looking Back: Life’s Lessons from Exonerees

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|Date: April 11, 2021
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Looking Back: Life’s Lessons from Exonerees

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 11, 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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Looking Back: Exposing The Death Penalty, Part 2

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|Date: March 28, 2021
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Looking Back: Exposing The Death Penalty, Part 2

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 ...

March 28, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 98: County County Prosecutor Kim Foxx

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|Date: March 22, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 98: County County Prosecutor Kim Foxx

Kim Foxx is trying to reform one of the most notorious counties in the Country - see what she is doing ab ...

Kim Foxx is trying to reform one of the most notorious counties in the Country - see what she is doing about issues like wrongful convictions, police shootings and bail reform. Kim Foxx took over in t ...

March 22, 2021
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Looking Back: Exposing The Death Penalty, Part 1

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|Date: March 21, 2021
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Looking Back: Exposing The Death Penalty, Part 1

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 ...

March 21, 2021
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Gascón Lays Out Record for First 100 Days of Reform as LA District Attorney, Projecting Hundreds of Millions in Savings

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|Date: March 18, 2021
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Gascón Lays Out Record for First 100 Days of Reform as LA District Attorney, Projecting Hundreds of Millions in Savings

By David M. Greenwald Marking 100 days in office, Los Angeles DA George Gascón took the opportunity to h ...

By David M. Greenwald Marking 100 days in office, Los Angeles DA George Gascón took the opportunity to highlight what he considers to be a tremendous record of accomplishment for reforms enacted sinc ...

March 18, 2021
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Key State Legislative Committee Approves Measure to End Bad Convictions from Faulty Expert Witness Testimony

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|Date: March 16, 2021
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Key State Legislative Committee Approves Measure to End Bad Convictions from Faulty Expert Witness Testimony

SACRAMENTO, CA – Legislation to end wrongful convictions because of faulty expert witness testimony passe ...

SACRAMENTO, CA – Legislation to end wrongful convictions because of faulty expert witness testimony passed a key California State Senate committee Tuesday on a unanimous bipartisan vote, according to ...

March 16, 2021
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Looking Back: Advice to the Wrongfully Convicted

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|Date: March 14, 2021
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Looking Back: Advice to the Wrongfully Convicted

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 ...

March 14, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast 96: Justin Brooks and Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: March 08, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast 96: Justin Brooks and Wrongful Convictions

Justin Brooks has headed the California Innocence Project since 1999. Over that time, the US has learned ...

Justin Brooks has headed the California Innocence Project since 1999. Over that time, the US has learned a lot about wrongful convictions and while it remains exceedingly difficult to free people wron ...

March 08, 2021
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Looking Back: Doing Hard Time – Part Two

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|Date: February 28, 2021
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Looking Back: Doing Hard Time – Part Two

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 ...

February 28, 2021
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