All Articles tagged evidence of innocence

• Justice Commentaries
  September 27, 2020 EDT
  POSTCONVICTION INNOCENCE REVIEW IN THE AGE OF PROGRESSIVE PROSECUTION
  Elizabeth Webster

  This article contains semi-structured interviews with twenty prosecutors (nine working in conviction integrity units) who have proactively assisted with an exoneration.

• 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.

• 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.