@cjpjustproj.bsky.socialLouisiana owes compensation to the wrongfully convicted. AG Liz Murrill keeps fighting it anyway, even with DNA evidence. Journalist Richard Webster explains why on our latest episode. 🎧
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#WrongfulConviction #Louisiana
@bobmueller.bsky.socialOn December 19, she and her attorney met with a Fargo detective for the first time.
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#Innocence #WrongfulConviction #AiMisidentification
@horrifyinghumanity.comHow should the system respond to such a loss?
@innocenceproject.bsky.socialAfter 21 years of #wrongfulconviction, Sheila Denton has been exonerated! Last week, a Georgia judge signed off on the state’s decision to not retry her for a 2004 murder she did not commit. She had spent 15 years in prison before her release in April 2020.
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@murderunscripted.bsky.socialOn Sept. 15, 1990, 3-year-old Courtney Smith was abducted and murdered in Mississippi.
Levon Brooks was wrongfully convicted and spent roughly 16 years in prison before another man confessed.
Should bite-mark evidence ever be used in court?
#CourtneySmith #WrongfulConviction #TrueCrimeHistory
@itchy-cpi.bsky.socialRead more here: emeraldbook.org/news/aug-262...
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#Racialinjustice #wrongfulconviction #ProsecutorialMisconduct #discriminatorypolicing
@itchy-cpi.bsky.socialRead more about what Canada's model of what error correction looks like here: www.legalreader.com/canada-just-...
#WrongfulConviction #Canada #ErrorCorrection #convictionintegrity
@theoldguardian.bsky.socialGuy Paul Morin lost a decade to a murder he didn't commit. The real killer was in the file the whole time. He died in 2015, never charged. No trial ever happened.
@horrifyinghumanity.comHow does a confession like that happen?
