http://www.thedefendersonline.com A civil rights blog promoting informed discourse on issues of race, justice, equality and democracy. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:21:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/08/17/if-time-is-money-what-is-justice-worth/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/08/17/if-time-is-money-what-is-justice-worth/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:23:05 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=14603 Lee A. Daniels What is the meaning and the scale of justice for this special group of Americans – the guilty until proven innocent?]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/08/17/if-time-is-money-what-is-justice-worth/feed/ 0 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/08/04/guilty-until-proven-innocent-the-shame-of-america%e2%80%99s-criminal-justice-system/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/08/04/guilty-until-proven-innocent-the-shame-of-america%e2%80%99s-criminal-justice-system/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:42:07 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=14400 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.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/08/04/guilty-until-proven-innocent-the-shame-of-america%e2%80%99s-criminal-justice-system/feed/ 1 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/02/12/freddie-peacock%e2%80%99s-long-journey-to-exoneration/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/02/12/freddie-peacock%e2%80%99s-long-journey-to-exoneration/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:34:13 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=12330 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.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/02/12/freddie-peacock%e2%80%99s-long-journey-to-exoneration/feed/ 0 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/08/25/warriors-for-justice-the-innocence-project-fights-for-exoneration/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/08/25/warriors-for-justice-the-innocence-project-fights-for-exoneration/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:36:15 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=10084 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.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/08/25/warriors-for-justice-the-innocence-project-fights-for-exoneration/feed/ 0 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/08/13/life-after-wrongful-conviction/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/08/13/life-after-wrongful-conviction/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:41:38 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=9856 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.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/08/13/life-after-wrongful-conviction/feed/ 0