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New Jersey Supreme Court Orders Sweeping Changes to Use of Eyewitness Identification

The Editors — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:16:32 +0000

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.

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: 267 and Counting

The Editors — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:21:39 +0000

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

Sherrilynn Ifill: Why We Ignored the Supreme Court’s Review of Connick v. Thompson

The Editors — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:12:53 +0000

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?

If Time Is Money, What Is Justice Worth?

The Editors — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:23:05 +0000

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

The Editors — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:42:07 +0000

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

The Editors — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:34:13 +0000

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

The Editors — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:36:15 +0000

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

The Editors — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:41:38 +0000

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.