Friday Roundup: The Stories of Innocence, Before and After Exoneration
07.08.11
Tavis Smiley sat down recently for
a two-part PBS invterview
with four men exonerated in Illinois after years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit.
A review by the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project is
exposing doubts
about the police investigation of a Washington D.C. murder.
A Florida State Attorney
recused himself
after four new suspects were revealed in a case for which William Dillon was wrongfully convicted.
NPR reported this week
on reforms in Dallas to make eyewitness identification procedures more reliable.
A Florida Today editorial
calls on the state legislature to address reforms in eyewitness identification procedures.
A DNA mix-up caused by human error
that led to a wrongful conviction of a Las Vegas man has prompted police to reanalyze more than 200 cases handled by a forensic scientist.
Two Canadian men who say they falsely confessed to a murder are
seeking to overturn their convictions
in Washington state with the help of the Idaho Innocence Project, an Innocence Network member.
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