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8 May 2008, 8:00 pm
Last week and for the 18th time in approximately seven years, an innocent man cleared by DNA testing reportedly has been released from prison by one Texas county. [read post]
30 Apr 2008, 11:39 pm
I spent yesterday afternoon with Jeff Blackburn of the Innocence Project of Texas, who was in Austin to visit with legislators and media about James Lee Woodard, an innocent man who spent 27 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 10:05 am by Tim Zubizarreta
Nonetheless, the court granted the motion to dismiss on the pleadings under the Ohio “innocent construction rule” which says that if a statement is subject to more than one meaning and at least one of the meanings is innocent, the statement should be construed to be innocent. [read post]
23 Dec 2008, 8:08 pm
James is actually pretty good at the "innocence" theme, or at any rate its close cousin, "innocence corrupted. [read post]
8 May 2008, 10:36 am
There were reps from the criminal defense lawyers and the prosecutors lobby, the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, the Innocence Project of Texas, the Governor's office, two judges from the Court of Criminal Appeals, several members of the House of Representatives, a police union rep, and several DAs and police chiefs, mostly from larger cities.I was particularly impressed with commentary from James Lee Woodard, a writ writer who spent his entire 27 years wrongfully… [read post]
5 Feb 2011, 6:42 am
When Weld District Judge James Hartmann asked Broderick if wanted to enter a plea to the remaining seven felony [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 1:01 pm by Joshua Baron
James Bain has spent 35 years in prison after being convicted of some horrible crimes: rape, kidnapping, and breaking and entering. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 12:51 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
But Texas did a good thing passing that law, and the statute (as well as the compensation package) remains the best in the country.Folks like Michael Morton, Anthony Graves, the late James Woodard, Christopher Scott, and many others, were able to regain what's left of till-then lost lives and even participate as spokesmen for the innocence movement which helped free them thanks to the security and independence Texas' compensation package gave them. [read post]
3 Nov 2006, 3:53 pm
The entire of the latest Golden Gate Law Review is devoted to the causes of innocence and wrongful conviction, including snitches, fingerprints and custodial confessions. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 6:30 am by JB
 Tanya Katerí Hernández, James Baldwin and Latino Racial Innocence. [read post]
12 Sep 2007, 9:05 pm
James Tillman served 18 years in a Connecticut prison for a rape he didn't commit. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 3:00 pm
On Friday, a Louisiana judge authorized compensation for four men who had been wrongfully convicted by the state, including Innocence Project client Henry James who was proven innocent through DNA testing in October. [read post]
22 Aug 2019, 8:06 am by Alicia Maule
Swearingen’s attorneys — Philip Hilder and James Rytting of Hilder & Associates and Bryce Benjet of the Innocence Project — highlighted the fact that critical evidence used to convict him has been recanted and revised by the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Laboratory (DPS) in the past month. [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Doing so may provide finality and some semblance of closure to families of murder victims.We execute the innocent because the Supreme Court tells us that nothing in our Constitution forbids it.It is long past time to acknowledge that as long as we continue to sentence people to death, we will keep executing innocent people.Texas did so when it executed Cantu by lethal injection for murdering his cousin and his cousin’s fiancée, James Mosqueda and Amy Kitchen,… [read post]