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Webinar on recantation evidence and its uses for innocence claims.
This month Cara Wieneke reviews The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice by Dr. Benjamin Gilmer.
This month Lara Bazelon reviews Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison by Daniel S. Medwed.
This month Maneka Sinha reviews When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule by Thomas L. Dybdahl.
The system took 43 years to correct the errors that stole much of Kevin Strickland’s life. The government never meaningfully challenged the evidence of his innocence, yet it fought and delayed his release at every turn. This is the story of Kevin Strickland’s exoneration and the people who brought him home.
This month Jennifer Sellitti reviews Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes That Never Happened by Jessica S. Henry.
Brief of National, State, and Local Civil Rights, Racial Justice, and Criminal Defense Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner.
Brief of National, State, and Local Civil Rights, Racial Justice, and Criminal Defense Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner (on petition for a writ of certiorari).
No Longer the Gold Standard: Probabilistic Genotyping is Changing the Nature of DNA Evidence in Criminal Trials, 24 Berkeley J. Crim. L. 110 (2019). By Bess Stiffelman. Academic journal article in Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law. Defense perspective on DNA and Probabilistic Genotyping. Argument that it is inconsistent with the presumption of innocence
This is a brief response to the critique of Bess Stiffelman's previous article, No Longer the Gold Standard: Probabilistic Genotyping is Changing the Nature of DNA Evidence in Criminal Trials, 24 Berkeley J. Crim. L. 110 (2019). The critique of her article was published earlier this year in this journal. I address both criticisms and misunderstandings of her arguments in an effort to frame the concerns of the criminal defense community about the impact of probabilistic genotyping on the deliberative process.
An article by The New York Review of Books on the subject of innocent people pleading guilty when prosecuted.
A PowerPoint presentation outlining the details of post-conviction relief in plea cases.
A PowerPoint presentation on post conviction storytelling and instances of proper utilization within a legal case.
Brief of the Innocence Project and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner.
