Friday Roundup: False Confessions and Flawed Forensics
05.20.11
Two New Orleans men who were wrongfully convicted in 1976
will finally receive compensation
.
District Attorneys in North Carolina don’t want
false confession cases
reviewed by the state’s Innocence Commission.
Another lawsuit is being filed against former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge by a man who claims he falsely confessed to murder after being
tortured
by Burge.
A former Wisconsin policeman maintains his innocence in
fatal arson case
as expert questions flawed forensics.
A Kansas City judge ordered post-conviction DNA testing on evidence from a 1987 sodomy case that hinged on
hairs found in the victim’s underwear
resembling that of the accused.
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