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13 Jun 2008, 4:33 am
Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck said in a speech last night that West Virginia - and dozens of other states - were ready for bipartisan criminal justice reforms to prevent future wrongful convictions. [read post]
23 May 2008, 2:36 pm
Here's an excerpt:Following is a statement from Barry Scheck, Co-Director of the Innocence Project, on a state court ruling late today that Michael Blair's capital murder conviction should be overturned. [read post]
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]
8 May 2008, 8:26 am
Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis is spearheading the Summit, and Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck will attend. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 12:01 pm
Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis is spearheading the Summit, and Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck will attend. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 11:28 am
Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis is spearheading the Summit, and Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck will attend. [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]
16 Apr 2008, 3:02 am
He has lost nearly his entire adult life to a wrongful conviction that could have - and should have - been prevented," said Barry Scheck, Co-Director of the Innocence Project, which is affiliated with Cardozo School of Law. [read post]
22 Sep 2007, 10:26 am
"It is haunting to consider that the state may have executed an innocent man, but DNA testing should be conducted to get to the truth," said Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 12:47 pm
We are asking for an emergency order from the court that will mandate testing and prevent officials from destroying this evidence in the meantime," said Barry Scheck, Co-Director of the Innocence Project, which is affiliated with Cardozo School of Law. [read post]
16 May 2007, 10:27 am
Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, the Manhattan legal clinic that revived the case, said: “It’s a miracle that Byron is here with us, because if ever there was a case where there was a risk of executing an innocent man, it was this case. [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]
11 May 2007, 1:26 pm
“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]
9 Apr 2007, 1:13 pm
It would be the third exoneration since District Attorney Craig Watkins took office on Jan. 1 pledging to free anyone wrongfully convicted.Watkins, the state's first black district attorney, took over an office with a history of racial discrimination, including a staff manual for prosecutors that described how to keep minorities off juries.Giles is scheduled to appear Tuesday at the state Capitol in Austin with Barry Scheck, the co-director of the… [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 8:35 pm
During the event, the exonerated men will stage adramatic signing of their own "Declaration of Innocence" across the street fromIndependence Hall.Scheck, co-director of The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. [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]
4 Apr 2007, 11:36 pm
With Scheck and Jim Dwyer, Neufeld co-authored Actual Innocence.In 2000, Herman worked together with rape survivors representing the Rainbow Sisters Project to help pass two laws regarding DNA evidence in California. [read post]
3 Apr 2007, 6:43 am
Barry Scheck, co-director of the New York-based Innocence Project, said the number of death verdicts nationwide dropped dramatically in recent years. [read post]
4 Feb 2007, 10:24 pm
Innocence Project co-director Barry Scheck explains in this letter (pdf) why the bill is so critical to justice. [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 1:40 pm
He was convicted of aggravated rape in 1981 and sentenced to 50 years in prison based on a sexual assault victim's identification of him.National leaders of the DNA exoneration movement are traveling to Dallas for the hearing and say they will demand that the county immediately investigate why the string of wrongful convictions occurred and ask area police departments to change their investigative techniques.Lawyer Barry Scheck, co-director of the… [read post]
