Central Park Jogger

Our Justice System Needs to Protect Children's Human Rights

Bernardine Dohrn | Posted 10.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Center-on-Wrongful-Convictions-of-Youth, Central Park Jogger, Human Rights, Chicago News, False Confessions, Criminal Justice, Northwestern University, Exoneration, Steve Drizin, Juvenile Justice, Anthony Caravella, Chicago News

Routine police interrogation methods have elicited an outrageously high proportion of false confessions -- coerced confessions given by innocent suspects, especially children, who quickly recant.

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Why Young People Falsely Confess to Police

Steve Drizin | Posted 10.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Exoneration, Thaddeus Jimenez, West Memphis Three, Center-on-Wrongful-Convictions-of-Youth, Central Park Jogger, Lacresha Murray, Bernardine Dohrn, False Confessions, Juvenile Justice, Steve Drizin, Marty Tankleff, Ryan Harris, Criminal Justice, Northwestern University, Chicago News

I've seen police lie to children in all manner of ways, telling one child that his dead sister's blood was found in his bedroom and a different boy that his father had awakened from a coma and told police the boy was his assailant.

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Trial and Error: Houston, We've Got a Problem

Lynne Glasner | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Exoneration, Trisha Meili, Texas-Executions, Jeffrey-Deskovic, Criminal Justice System, Crime, Manhattan District Attorney, Richard Aborn, Wrongful Conviction, Death Penalty, Central-Park-Jogger, Politics News

As Morgenthau steps down as DA, one of the three primary contestants stands out. Richard Aborn has a track record of working for reform.

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New York's Worst Criminals: Tell Us Who Deserves The Title (POLL, PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | David Vines (with research from Mercer Cook) | Posted 08.21.2009 | New York

Read More: David Berkowitz, New York Criminals, Central Park Jogger, Matias Reyes, Crime, Slidepoll, Criminals, Slideshow, New York News, New York, New York News

Throughout the history of the Big Apple, you could say that there have been a few bad apples. From Bill the Butcher in the mid-19th century, to Matia...

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Ken Burns Illuminates Jogger Case

Glyn Vincent | Posted 08.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Robert Morgenthau, Central-Park-Jogger, Ken Burns, New York, Central Park, New York News

Ken Burns is set to produce documentary on the five young men wrongly convicted in the rape of the Central Park jogger.

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