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When a Prosecutor Learns He Has Likely Convicted an Innocent

Joel Cohen | Posted 09.30.2012 | New York

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Innocent, Prosecutor, American Bar Association, Innocense Project, Aba, Exculpatory, Ethics, New York News

It is hard to imagine anything more Kafkaesque than a true innocent sitting in jail day after day, while a cynical prosecutor hides the knowledge of his innocence and the keys to the man's freedom in a lockbox in her office.

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Innocent Man Turned Killer While On 'Alcatraz'

Posted 05.12.2012 | TV

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Clarence Montgomery, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Tv Replay, Fox, Innocent, Reality-Free, Alcatraz, TV News

The only innocent man on "Alcatraz" (Mon., 9 p.m. ET on Fox) returned to the present day, but he wasn't the same Clarence Montgomery that went in. Tha...

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Pardoning Criminals -- Appropriate Mercy or Perverting Justice?

Bennett L. Gershman | Posted 03.19.2012 | Crime

Read More: Murder, Presidential Pardons, Innocent, Clemency, Death Row, Nixon-Pardon, Crime News

In a day when so many miscarriages of justice have been exposed, particularly by way of indisputable proof of actual innocence, the guidelines for pardons should be far more stringent.

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Sometimes the Other Person Has a Point

Andrea Lyon | Posted 01.29.2012 | Crime

Read More: Political Discord, Dna, Criminal Justice, Innocent, Innocence, Prosecutors, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Prosecution, Armchair Detective, Crime News

It is hard to admit a mistake, but for heaven's sake, there has to be a better way to evaluate a case than fighting simply to save the conviction.

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Coming To A TV Near You: Mystery Night

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 11.21.2011 | Books

Read More: Carol Higgins Clark, Crime Novels, Movie Mystery Night, Video, Tnt, Sandra Brown, Scott Turow, Mary Higgins Clark, Mystery Novels, Marcia Gay Harding, Innocent, Presumed Innocent, Richard North Patterson, Lisa Gardner, April SMith, Books News

Fans of the nation's top mystery novelists received a treat Thursday when TNT invited them to a Manhattan sneak preview of the filmic adaptation of Sc...

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Rick Perry Executed an Innocent Man/ Save Troy Davis!

Katie Halper | Posted 11.15.2011 | Crime

Read More: Texas Death Penalty, Cameron Todd Willingham, MoveOn.Org, Texas Death Row, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Troy Davis Execution, Amnesty International, Ncadp, Innocent, Naacp, Rick Perry, Troy Davis, change.org, Crime News

Rick Perry's record number of executions drew applause at last week's GOP debate. Among the 234 -- make that 235 as of today -- killed under Perry was Cameron Todd Willingham, who received the death penalty for killing his three daughters by arson.

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Men Controversially Convicted Of Killing Boy Scouts Might Be Released

AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 10.19.2011 | Crime

Read More: Arkansas, West Memphis Three, Plea Deal, Damien Echols, Video, Jonesboro, Arkansas Crime, Boy Scouts, West Memphis Three Plea Deal, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley, Innocent, Crime News

UPDATE: After serving 17 years behind bars for the brutal murder of three children in eastern Arkansas, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason...

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Exonerated Man Sues Scandal-Plagued North Carolina Crime Lab

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 08.30.2011 | Crime

Read More: Murder, False Accusations, Death Row, Exonerated Prisoners, North Carolina Crime Lab, North Carolina Crime, Death Penalty, Innocent, North Carolina, Crime News

NEW YORK -- North Carolina's criminal justice system remains beset by scandal almost a year after an independent audit revealed that state crime lab t...

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PHOTOS: 15 Cool Book Covers That Didn't Make The Cut

nytimes.com | Posted 07.16.2011 | Books

Read More: Michael Chabon, The Social Animal, Madame Bovary, David Brooks, Eating Animals, Zadie Smith, Scott Turow, Cool Book Covers, Manhood for Amateurs, Innocent, James Gleick, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Sedaris, The Information, Books News

For authors, choosing a book cover is the fraught moment their very private creation starts putting on its game face and getting ready to enter the ma...

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IMF Head's Wife On Sexual Assault Charges: 'I Do Not Doubt His Innocence Will Be Established'

Reuters | Posted 07.15.2011 | World

(Reuters) - IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's wife Anne Sinclair said on Sunday she had no doubt he would be proved innocent of sexual assault char...

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Erie Pizza Bomber Case: Who Killed Brian Wells?

Trey Borzillieri | Posted 08.11.2011 | Entertainment

A quiet and solitary man spent an entire lifetime avoiding the spotlight... only to blow-up on TV. Was he a victim? According to the FBI he was a cons...

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Conviction: Sister's Long Struggle Against Injustice

Pat Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Exoneration, Minnie Driver, Death Row Exoneration, Hilary Swank, Exonerated, Justice Fellowship, Innocent, Innocence Project, Sam Rockwell, Entertainment News

There is already a great deal of Oscar buzz about Swank's portrayal of Betty Anne Waters' eighteen year struggle against the injustice suffered by her brother. But such instances of injustice need to be a larger part of the real-life public discussion as well.

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Justice, Albeit Delayed

Andrea Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Jon Burge Torture, Death Penalty, Criminal Justice, Jon Burge, Innocent, Politics News

On June 28, 2010 a jury convicted Jon Burge. Commander Jon Burge tortured criminal suspects with impunity for years and years on Chicago's South Side.

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A Chat with Scott Turow About Innocent

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Sequel, Innocent, Scott Turow, Kindle County, Sydney Pollack, Presumed Innocent, Books News

It's not exactly like asking where you were when you heard JFK was shot, but for many of us, the publication of Presumed Innocent in 1987 was An Event.

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Innocent, Rick Riordan, Book Review, Book Reviews, Pop Art, Scott Turow, Innocent Scott Turow, Books, E.O. Wilson, Jane Smiley, Books News

Were you so busy enjoying the sunshine this weekend that you missed the big book reviews? Catch up with the highlights below! "Innocent," Scott Turow...

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Scott Turow's Literary Empire: 'Presumed Innocent' Hero Rusty Sabich Returns

The Los Angeles Times | Scott Martelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Innocent, Rusty Sabich, Legal Thrillers, John Grisham, Scott Turow, Books, Presumed Innocent, Bestsellers, Books News

Literary empires have to start somewhere, and Scott Turow's began 23 years ago with the creation of an unusually trusting prosecutor named Rusty Sabic...

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Judge Orders Convicted Killer Colin Thatcher To Give Up Book Profits

Saskatchewan News Network and The StarPhoenix | Barb Pacholik and James Wood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Colin Thatcher, Canadian Killer, Convicted Murderer, Canadian Author, Killer's Book, Convicted Killer, Book Profits, Innocent, Canada, Books News

REGINA -- Calling it "a good day for victims of crime," Saskatchewan's justice minister applauded a court decision ordering killer-turned-author Colin...

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Hiram Monserrate Verdict: Guilty Of Lesser Charge In Girlfriend Attack, Acquitted Of Felony (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate was found not guilty on two counts of felony assault in his slash-and-gash case today. The Queens Democrat wa...

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