The week in review
10.03.08
A roundup of stories we didn’t get to on the Innocence Blog this week.
Charges were dropped this week
against Arthur Johnson, a Mississippi man who spent 16 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit. Johnson was represented by attorneys at the Innocence Project New Orleans. More on his case next week.
Claude McCollum was released in 2007 after serving more than a year in Michigan prison for a murder he didn’t commit. He was released when evidence of his innocence began to surface,
but it wasn’t until this week that he heard an apology from prosecutors
. "I truly am deeply sorry," County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III said Sunday to McCollum during a talk at a local church attended by McCollum and about 30 others.
And New York exoneree Jeffrey Deskovic
protested outside the taping of a new reality
show featuring Jeanine Pirro, the district attorney who refused to grant DNA testing in Deskovic’s case while he was in prison. He was exonerated in 2006 when DNA proved his innocence of the 1989 murder for which he had been wrongfully convicted.
In addition to exonerating Arthur Johnson, Innocence Project New Orleans
issued a report
detailing cases in which New Orleans prosecutors failed to disclose critical evidence to defense attorneys, and calling on candidates for the office to improve evidence sharing practices in the future.
And an editorial in the Tuscaloosa News
praised the Alabama Supreme Court
for denying the state Attorney General’s request to set a new execution date for Tommy Arthur.
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