By The Editors
The New Jersey Supreme Court this week ordered sweeping changes in the way eyewitness identification is used and evaluated in the state’s criminal courts.

By Lee A. Daniels
More and more, it’s become apparent that America has a double-sided criminal justice system

By The Editors
In a powerful opinion piece in the American Constitution Society blog this week, Sherrilynn Ifill, a law professor at the University of Maryland and a former staff attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., offers a tale of two cases considered by the Supreme Court this month and examines a gripping question: Why did one draw voluminous media coverage, while the other—involving an African-American man who, though innocent, was convicted of murder and nearly executed—was virtually ignored?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.