Friday Roundup: Police Misconduct, Recording Interrogations and a New Latin American Innocence Project
10.15.10
A Virginia man convicted of rape in 1997 is
hoping to have his conviction overturned
based on a detective’s history of police misconduct.
An editorial in the Hartford Courant
argues that electronic recording of interrogations should be mandatory
.
Florida prosecutors are trying to delay a murder trial to
prevent eyewitness testimony
because they believe eyewitness identification hasn’t reached the scientific level required to be admitted in court.
The National Institute of Justice
gave more than $1 million
to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to study handwriting characteristics and bloodstain patterns, two forms of fairly subjective evidence,
according to the 2009 National Academy of Sciences report
.
California Western School of Law is launching
Inocente!
, the first Latin American Innocence Project, focused on the release of the wrongfully convicted and reforming laws that lead to wrongful conviction.
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