All Articles tagged actual innocence

• Justice Commentaries
  December 17, 2016 EDT
  IF HINDSIGHT IS 20/20, OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM SHOULD NOT BE BLIND TO NEW EVIDENCE OF INNOCENCE: A SURVEY OF POST-CONVICTION NEW EVIDENCE STATUTES AND A PROPOSED MODEL
  Justin BrooksAlexander SimpsonPaige Kaneb

  This article surveys the new evidence standard in post-conviction from around the country and explores the practical and legal ramifications of these standards.

• Justice Commentaries
  December 17, 2016 EDT
  INNOCENCE PROJECT: DNA EXONERATIONS, 1989-2014: REVIEW OF DATA AND FINDINGS FROM THE FIRST 25 YEARS
  Emily WestVanessa Meterko

  This report offers a first-time comprehensive review of data collected by the Innocence Project on DNA exonerations.

• Justice Commentaries
  December 08, 2016 EDT
  RECANTATIONS AND THE PERJURY SWORD
  Russell D. Covey

  This essay sets forth the argument for reforming our approach to recantation evidence.

• General
  June 10, 2016 EDT
  THE PATH TO EXONERATION
  Jon B. GouldRichard A. Leo

  The first systematic empirical study of how the American criminal justice system discovers and responds to factual error based on actual innocence.

• Justice Commentaries
  June 11, 2013 EDT
  A SURVEY OF FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS‘ APPROACHES TO A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE: IS THERE A NEED FOR A STATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT IN NEW YORK IN THE AFTERMATH OF CPL § 440.10(G-1)?
  John M. Leventhal

  This article considers whether there is still a need for a freestanding state constitutional claim of actual innocence in light of a recent amendment to the New York State Criminal...