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Innocence

Willingham Prosecutor's Lack of Doubt Too Extreme

Amy Bach | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Amy Bach, New Yorker, David Grann, Texas, Cameron Todd Willingham, Chicago Tribune, Indigent Defendants, Innocence Project, Innocence, Prosecutors, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Corsicana, Politics News
Amy Bach

As the Willingham case demonstrates, there's a certain kind of behavioral reaction by people who work in courts -- prosecutors especially -- that defends the system over all contrary evidence.

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When It Comes to Claims of Actual Innocence, Courts Need to Consider Recantations

John Maki | Posted 09.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Exoneration, Johnnie Lee Savory, Capital Punishment, Death Row, Cook County Criminal Justice System, Criminal Justice, Recantations, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Thaddeus Jimenez, Innocence, Troy Davis, Antonin Scalia, Illinois Death Penalty, Chicago News
John Maki

You might think that judges would be willing to review convictions based on testimony that was later recanted, but in fact courts frequently ignore recantations.

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Obama Administration and DNA

Rob Warden | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gregory G. Garre, Supreme Court, District Attorney v. Osborne, Dna, Innocence, Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, Politics News
Rob Warden

Will the Obama Administration stick with the Bush Administration's opposition to DNA testing that could set a man free?

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Truthfulness, Justice and the American Way

Paula Gordon | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Interrogations, Troy Davis, Guilt, Judges, Justice, Evidence, Innocence, Civil Rights, Juries, Paul Ekman, Testimony, Politics News
Paula Gordon

While the fate of the nation hangs in the balance, so does that of Troy Anthony Davis. He personifies the continuing threat to justice (and to life) of our de facto judicial system.

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