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Posts Tagged ‘ exoneration ’

If Time Is Money, What Is Justice Worth?

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By Lee A. Daniels
What is the meaning and the scale of justice for this special group of Americans – the guilty until proven innocent?



Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Shame of America’s Criminal Justice System

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By Lee A. Daniels
Michael Anthony Green was released from the custody of the state of Texas last Friday – 27 years after being wrongly convicted for the rape of a woman that brought him a sentence of 75 years in prison.



Freddie Peacock’s Long Journey to Exoneration

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By Maggie Taylor
Freddie Peacock was arrested in July 1976 and later convicted of attacking and raping a woman. Twenty-eight years after his parole in 1982, Peacock became the 250th person nationwide to be exonerated by DNA evidence.



Warriors for Justice: The Innocence Project Fights for Exoneration

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By TaRessa Stovall
This independent national litigation and public policy organization was established at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York City, to free the wrongfully convicted and reform the criminal justice system.



Life After Wrongful Conviction

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By Olympia Duhart
At the age of 48, Alan J. Crotzer has spent more than half of his life behind bars: 24 years, six months, 13 days and four hours, to be precise.

And he was innocent of every single charge leveled against him.