Mark Godsey discusses a case in the Ohio Innocence Project space at the UC College of Law. Photo/Lisa Ventre. After witnessing enough disturbing trends to fill a book, he sat down and wrote one. “Blind Injustice” is expected to hit shelves in September 2017.
http://magazine.uc.edu/issues/0317/blind-injustice.html
Story highlights. Los Angeles (CNN)On a sunny Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles Andrew Leander Wilson did something that seemed unbelievable to him; he walked outside on the sidewalk with only his family guarding him. I've been inside for 32 years, three months and 14 days. It's been that long, Wilson told CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/us/wrongfully-convicted-man-free-after-32-years/index.html
For the non-profit legal organization, see Innocence Project. The Innocence Project is a television drama series created by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast on BBC One on November 9, 2006. The series follows the work of Professor Jon Ford (Lloyd Owen), who sets up The Innocence Project, peopled entirely by a hand-picked group of law students.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innocence_Project
The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. Watch the video. Help our cause.
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Daniel Bolstad. Seneca Malone was convicted of first degree intentional homicide in 2008. The conviction was based almost entirely on the statement of one person who said he witnessed the shooting. In 2010, the Wisconsin Innocence Project began investigating Mr. Malone's case. The law students and supervising attorney discovered that trial counsel was ineffective in his representation of Mr. Malone.
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Loyola's innocence project says none of that evidence was handed over to Wilson's defense attorney. Wilson has paid a heavy price. Half his life has been spent in prison. He's missed 32 years of Christmas dinners, graduations, even the birth of his granddaughter, but he says he is not bitter.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/us/wrongfully-convicted-man-free-after-32-years/index.html
The second annual Bearcats Dash & Bash 18.19K and 5k races, co-sponsored by the UC Department of Athletics and the Ohio Innocence Project, is Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, at UC. Last year’s event set a Cincinnati record for the first year of a race with more than 1,800 participants.
http://magazine.uc.edu/issues/0317/blind-injustice.html
A physical transformation occurred before Ricky’s eyes, as Vernon’s burden began to dissipate.”. The burden of knowing innocent men and women are sitting in prison is something Godsey has become all too familiar with over the last 14 years since starting the Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) at UC in 2003.
http://magazine.uc.edu/issues/0317/blind-injustice.html
The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal organization that is committed to exonerating wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing and to reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_Project
Our Mission. The Innocence Project of Florida (IPF) is an IRS-certified 501(c)(3), non-profit organization founded in January 2003 to help innocent prisoners in Florida obtain their freedom and rebuild their lives. Our mission is to:
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what decade did the innocence project begin
The innocence project begins in 1992. The Innocence Project began in 1992.