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8 May 2008, 11:18 am
  News 8 Austin, Time-Warner cable's local Austin news channel is also here. (1:50 pm) The exonerees have finished, and Senator Ellis is about to recognize Barry Scheck, co-founder of the New York-based Innocence Project, to speak. (2:01 pm)  Among other best practices, he just mentioned the Tarrant County District Attorney's office open-file policy and the need for better discovery in Texas. (2:11 pm)Craig Watkins will be… [read post]
24 Jul 2010, 10:16 am by Steve Hall
"I must protest that," said Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project in New York, which filed the original commission complaint about the Willingham case. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 8:05 am by Steve Hall
Scheck, co-founder and co-director of the Innocence Project, which is based in New York and is assisting the Green legal team. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 8:21 am by Steve Hall
The charges could lead to the state bar taking disciplinary action against Anderson, or Harle himself possibly urging state and federal prosecutors to investigate, said Barry Scheck, the Innocence Project's co-founder. [read post]
18 Apr 2008, 9:30 pm
"Our challenge as a nation is not to make it easier to execute people, or make more people eligible for the death penalty, but to do everything possible to make our criminal justice system more fair and accurate," says Barry Scheck, co-director of The Innocence Project, which seeks to free innocent people from prison. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 7:38 am
" In 15% of cases involving a wrongful conviction overturned by DNA evidence, an informant or jailhouse snitch testified against the defendant, said Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, which seeks to free the wrongfully convicted. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 7:39 am by Steve Hall
"This is a DNA test that could prove someone was wrongly executed," said Barry Scheck, the co-director of the Innocence Project, a New York-based legal center that helped ensure the preservation of the strand of hair.Jones, a career criminal and paroled murderer, always insisted he was innocent. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 7:33 am by Steve Hall
Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, had been scheduled to take the helm today to call witnesses to testify about Cameron Todd Willingham and Claude Jones, two men convicted of capital murder and executed. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 1:25 pm by Steve Hall
Simpson's "dream team" of lawyers — a credential he acknowledged that he doesn't usually highlight — Scheck is now a law professor and co-director of the Innocence Project, which uses post-conviction DNA evidence to help exonerate the wrongly accused. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 6:16 am
Eric Ferrero, communication director for the Innocence Project, said it is a time to pause. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 8:01 am by Steve Hall
” The new study shows that “we have the tools to reduce eyewitness error, to protect the innocent and help law enforcement apprehend the guilty,” said Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, a sponsor of the report along with the American Judicature Society and the Police Foundation. [read post]
7 Oct 2009, 7:50 am
Re-creating the wheel in the investigation is unnecessary, and the delay is impeding justice for others serving time under questionable arson convictions, said Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, which has used DNA evidence to free dozens of Texas inmates and has enlisted experts to study the Willingham case. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 8:39 am by Steve Hall
" Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project and one of the team of lawyers representing Willingham's surviving relatives, asked Lentini if there was any way to explain Maldonado's steadfastness. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 7:52 am
” Ellis will hold a press conference with Innocence Project co-Director Barry Scheck immediately following the hearing to "address outstanding issues. [read post]
12 May 2011, 9:41 am by Steve Hall
Woodford speaks with unique authority and first-hand experience about the risks of executing the innocent and the failure of the death penalty in California to bring resolution to many victims or deter crime," said Barry Scheck, Co-Director of the Innocence Project and Professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York City. [read post]
13 May 2007, 3:04 am
Gilchrist was the lead forensic analyst in 23 cases that ended in death sentences (11 of the defendants in those cases have been executed)"This is by far one of the worst cases of law enforcement misconduct in the history of the American criminal justice system," said Barry Scheck , Co-Director of the Innocence Project, which is affiliated with Cardozo School of Law. [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 7:41 am
Today's Houston Chronicle carries the OpEd, "Willingham case could improve forensic analysis," written by State Senator Rodney Ellis and Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck. [read post]
17 Sep 2017, 6:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I couldn't ask for a smarter, more able co-host than Mandy Marzullo from the Texas Defender Service. [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 9:29 am
Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project that has helped free dozens of Texans through the use of DNA evidence, likened the governor's move to Richard Nixon's "Saturday night massacre," when he fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the Watergate scandal.Willingham was executed in 2004 for causing the death of his three small children in a 1991 Corsicana house fire, but numerous experts now say… [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 3:30 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
He and fellow defense lawyer Peter Neufeld co-founded The Innocence Project in 1992. [read post]