A Detroit man serving time for eight murders may own up to four more in an effort to
clear a teenager whose confession was given to satisfy police
Florida exoneree Alan Crotzer describes the
effects of being wrongfully convicted
.
A Maryland Gazette editorial reminds jurors to
consider the perils of false confessions
and the statistics of juveniles signing confessions to end the interrogation process.
A California man who was wrongfully convicted of murder
filed a lawsuit against San Francisco
for building a case around the testimony of a witness who was compensated.
The Atlantic reports on a death row case ”
even weaker than the one against Troy Davis
.”
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