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NY Times, Texas Prosecutor Faces Charges in Wrongful Conviction
Twenty-five years after he was placed in prison for a crime he did not commit, actions by the prosecutor raise questions about wrongdoing and a prosecutor’s culpability.
Chicago Sun Times:False Confessions not a thing of the past
Josh Tepfer with the Center on Wrongful Convictions on why Chicago is the false confession capital of the world.
Washington Post Reports Tainted Forensic Evidence Kept From Defendants
Washington Post on DOJ Report on failures in its forensic analysis of evidence in criminal cases. How many innocent people are in prison convicted with tainted forensic testing by FBI?
Time Magazine, Why Men Confess
Adam Cohen points to Central Park jogger case and West Memphis 3 to explain false confessions
New York Law Journal Interview with Jeffrey Deskovic
Jeffrey Deskovic discusses his wrongful conviction and his freedom with the New York Law Journal.
Predicting and Preventing Wrongful Convictions
National Institute of Justice Why are innocent people wrongfully convicted in certain cases yet acquitted in others? Could policy interventions prevent future erroneous convictions? NIJ-funded researchers at American University studied 460 violent felonies that occurred between 1980 and 2012 to find the answers.
NY 1 News Families of Wrongfully Convicted at City Hall
Over 50 family members of those wrongfully convicted and in New York State prisons gathered on the steps of NYC City Hall.
Dateline on Barry Beach: Montana False Confession
Jesse Friedman, Victim of Sex Abuse Hysteria Prosecution, Seeks Exoneration
Jesse Friedman was forced to plead guilty facing life without parole in an infamous sex abuse hysteria case.