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Academic Articles

Ohio Catholic Conference paper on wrongful convictions
2006 - The Wrongful Conviction of Peter Rose - Susan Rutberg - Golden Gate University Law Review
January 2003, Barry Scheck and Sarah L Tofte - “Gideon's Promise and the Innocent Defendant” [Gideon v Wainright]

An Innocence Commission / Ingegrity Unit

10 June 2008 Lufkin Daily News reported “Justice demands integrity unit [in Texas]"
14 May 2008 - FinalCall.com - Wrongfully convicted call for justice for the innocent
18 May 2008 - Star-Telegram - Top Texas jurists support idea of Innocence Commission

Media Articles

17 November 2008 - CBS 11 News - 14 Years Later, Wrongly Convicted Man Released [Antrone Johnson]
4 September 2008 - Washington Post - Wrongful convictions hard to get off records
17 September 2008 - New York Times - Convictions Reinstated in Mob Case
5 August 2008 - Caller-Times / AP - Man pleads not guilty in frozen body death
5 August 2008 - New York Times - After Years in Prison, Now a Break [Kareem Bellamy]
5 August 2008 - Southeast Missourian - Johsua Kezer wins day in court
29 July 2008 NBC reported“Prosecutors, Defense Object To Governor's Budget Cuts [Illinois]
27 July 2008 - SeattlePI - Samuel Snow – wrongly convicted Fort Lawton veteran – dies
17 July 2008 - Irish Times - Protections in legal system not 'charter for criminals'” [Walter Swift case]
12 July 2008 - Irish Independent - No ill feelings after 26 years, says wrongly convicted man" [Walter Swift]
11 July 2008 - The Australian - DNA test clears JonBenet Ramsey's family
10 July 2008 - Miami New Times - Hialeah Man Wrongly Convicted of Murder
10 June 2008 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Lewis Sinclair, 93, gave voice to poor, accused, those facing discrimination
June 2008 - The Star Herald - Convicted murderer [Jeff Boppre ] alleges misconduct
13 May 2008 - PRWEB - Haynes and Boone Pro Bono Team Obtains Freedom For Two Wrongly Convicted Murder Defendants
28 April 2008 - Washington Post - Exonerated Ex-Inmates Struggle to Shed Stigma
25 March 2008 - The Guardian - Supreme court rules US courts are independent of Hague
10 March 2008 - Reuters - Guantanamo trials called tainted by coercion
6 March 2008 - Washington Post - The Dark Market Of 'Murderabilia'
29 February 2008 - United Press International - Woman wrongly convicted of murder freed
27 February 2008 - NWI Times - Running for those who cannot
27 January 2008 - Cleveland.com - Drug informant's lies lead to questions about the criminal justice system
25 February 2008 - Los Angeles Times - California treats exonerated people even worse than rightly convicted felons
25 January 2008 - The Boston Globe - City spends heavily to fight suit by wrongfully convicted man [Shawn Drumgold]
8 January 2008 - Perth Now - Cuckolded husband to get $860,000
3 January 2008 - Newsday - Suffolk DA drops Martin Tankleff murder case
4 December 2007 - Huffington Post - Dixie Chick Starts Defense Fund For Convicted Killers
28 October 2007 - The Guardian - Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted 25 years ago now appealing
23 October 2007 - WRAL.com - Wrongly Convicted Man Being Sued for Child Support
22 Sep 2007 - NineMSN - Louisiana judge won't release black teen [Mychal Bell]
18 September 2007 - NewsDay.com - OJ Simpson Book Gets Second Printing
20 September 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Louisiana “Saga of the nooses, the beating and a major small town race flare-up
18 August 2007 - Houston Chronicle - After 9 years, inmate granted Perry pardon
31 July 2007 - NineMSN - Dead babies found in US home: police
12 July 2007 - Houston Chronicle - Anthony Graves' defense suffers setback
6 July 2007 - Oklahoma Examiner - Governor pardons man wrongly convicted [on fibre evidence] in 1984 assault
6 July 2007 - Dallas Morning News - DA opposes new trial for man [Benjamin Spencer] claiming wrongful conviction
3 July 2007 - La Crosse Tribune - Evan Zimmerman wrongly accused of murder fails to get 'storybook' ending
June 2007 - USA Judges regularly convict innocent - study
27 June 2007 Los Angeles - 3 wrongful convictions Bills advance
24 May 2007 - Avalanche-Journal - Texas: “Inmate's claims may posthumously clear man of Lubbock rape”
11 May 2007 - GO Today - Former reporter’s new novel examines Ted Kuhl murder case
7 May 2007 - Associated Press - Maryland Puts Teeth in Bill to Regulate Crime Labs
7 May 2007 - St Petersburg Times - Alan Crotzer denied compensation
6 May 2007 - Clarion Ledger - No restitution for wrongly jailed Cedric Willis
3 May 2007 - Live Science - Mystery Deaths Plague Coroners
3 May 2007 - Houston Chronicle - Board urges innocence pardon for Gilbert Amezquita
11 April 2007 - Chicago, $8m settlement for wrongful convictions

USA Cases

2005 - Yates (Texas) - mother kills children - error in expert evidence
2004 - Camm v State of Indiana - Court of Appeals - Evidence relating to previous adulterous conduct is inadmissible in a trial for spousal murder
2002 - Davis v Wallace and the State of West Virginia
This case contains references to other cases and scholarly articles supporting the extension of liability to expert witnesses for negligence in preparation of their court reports and evidence
1999 - LLMD of Michigan Inc v Jackson-Cross Co
The doctrine of "witness immunity" does not extend to immunize the negligent preparation of an expert where privately retained
1997 - Dr Huhta v Medical Board, Pennsylvania
"We conclude that judicial immunity is not applicable to administrative disciplinary proceedings before the [professional conduct] Board"
1997 - Deatherage v State of Washington Examining Board of Psychology
Supreme Court of the State of Washington - no immunity from professional conduct board
1963 - Fahy v Connecticut - erroneously admitted evidence not "harmless error"

Happenings in Montana

Montanans for justice Involves the case of Barry A Beach and a convicton based upon alleged false confessions
To make inquiries or to express a view about the case of Barry Beach, you can write to Governor Schweitzer
http://governor.mt.gov/contact/commentform.asp  or his mailing address: Governor Brian D Schweitzer, PO Box 200801, Helena, MT 59620-0801, Canada

Or write to the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole
http://www.mt.gov/BOPP/feedback.asp or the mailing address: 300 Maryland Ave, Deer Lodge, MT 59722, Canada

General Links

Centurion Ministries USA: working for the convicted innocent

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