- Slate: How junk science and anti-lesbian prejudice got four women sent to prison for more than a decade
- Tulsa World: National exoneration registry tracks wrongfully convicted inmates
- Wrongful Convictions Blog: Misbehaving prosecutors almost always get off scot-free
- The New Yorker: The Interview: Do police interrogation techniques produce false confessions?
- Huffpost: Confession contamination in Cook County: Demonizing youth in false confession narratives
- The Innocence Blog: Demystifying false confessions
- CNN: Exonerated: Cases by the numbers
- CNN: 'An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story,' premieres as CNN FILMS broadcast on Thursday, Dec. 5
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Innocence news and notes
Here are a number of recent innocence-related stories that merit Grits readers attention. The Michael Morton documentary described in the final bullet airs tonight:
"Unreal Dream" is broadcasting SUNDAY!
ReplyDeleteYeah, it was scheduled for Thursday but they preempted it to cover Nelson Mandela's death.
ReplyDeleteThe "texting judge," Elizabeth Coker, is running for Polk County District Attorney just six weeks after signing a resignation agreement with the Judicial Conduct Commission. Her agreement became effective on December 6. She announced her new campaign yesterday on Polkcountytoday.com. How in the hell does this corrupt woman still have a law license?
ReplyDeleteThe Innocence Project fonder, Barry Scheck, the original NY City hug-a-thug liberal.
ReplyDelete"To Scheck" entered the legal vocabulary and came to mean to bully a witness, or to act self-righteous or melodramatic.
By comparison Al Sharption looks dignified.