All Articles tagged exoneration

• Justice Commentaries
  September 27, 2020 EDT
  OBSTACLES AND BARRIERS AFTER EXONERATION
  Lily GoldbergNicole GuillenNicole HernandezLora M. Levett

  This article reviews existing obstacles exonerees may face in the areas of compensation, mental health, and reentry issues and suggest solutions for exonerated individuals in these areas.

• 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
  May 28, 2019 EDT
  IS IT RATIONAL OR NOT?: WHEN INNOCENTS PLEAD GUILTY IN CHILD SEX ABUSE CASES
  Esa Bella Zakirova

  This article defines child sexual abuse and plea bargaining and examines its frequency in wrongful conviction cases for child sex abuse; discusses the rationality behind plea bargaining; and offers recommendations.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 28, 2019 EDT
  AN ANALYSIS OF ISSUES AT PRE-TRIAL PROCEEDINGS LEADING TO WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS IN “NO CRIME” CASES: THERE WAS NO CRIME, BUT THEY DID THE TIME
  Irina Zakirova

  This paper defines the no crime phenomenon and further explains how an accident, suicide, or a fabricated crime can be wrongly determined to be a crime before adjudication.

• 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.

• 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
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  DEATH, BUT IS IT MURDER? THE ROLE OF STEREOTYPES AND CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS IN THE WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS OF WOMEN
  Andrea L. LewisSara L. Sommervold

  This article promotes further study of the wrongful convictions of women and make policy recommendations to reduce those wrongful convictions.

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  GENDERING AND RACING WRONGFUL CONVICTION: INTERSECTIONALITY, “NORMAL CRIMES,” AND WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES OF MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
  Elizabeth WebsterJody Miller

  This article considers how gendered and raced biases play fundamental roles in creating the crime and suspect typifications that take hold and shape the practices of criminal justice system actors.

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  DEATH, BUT IS IT MURDER? THE ROLE OF STEREOTYPES AND CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS IN THE WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS OF WOMEN
  Andrea L. LewisSara L. Sommervold

  This article promotes further study of the wrongful convictions of women and make policy recommendations to reduce those wrongful convictions.

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  GENDERING AND RACING WRONGFUL CONVICTION: INTERSECTIONALITY, “NORMAL CRIMES,” AND WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES OF MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
  Elizabeth WebsterJody Miller

  This article considers how gendered and raced biases play fundamental roles in creating the crime and suspect typifications that take hold and shape the practices of criminal justice system actors.

• Justice Commentaries
  October 16, 2014 EDT
  SUSTAINABILITY OF INNOCENCE REFORM
  Marvin ZalmanJulia Carrano

  This article examines the innocence movement from a broad policy approach in order to assess the prospect of effecting meaningful criminal justice reforms.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 05, 2012 EDT
  THE EXPUNGEMENT MYTH
  Amy ShlosbergEvan ManderyValerie West

  This article stems from a study of the post

• Justice Commentaries
  May 05, 2012 EDT
  WITHOUT LEGAL OBLIGATION: COMPENSATING THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED IN AUSTRALIA
  Rachel Dioso-Villa

  This article provides suggestions for a comprehensive statute that addresses monetary and non-monetary consequences of wrongful conviction.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 05, 2012 EDT
  PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF WRONGFUL CONVICTION: SUPPORT FOR COMPENSATION AND APOLOGIES
  Kimberly A. ClowIsabella M. BlandisiRose RicciardelliRegina A. Schuller

  To investigate public perception of compensation, face-to-face interviews were conducted with fifteen community members. Findings suggest that all interviewees believed that individuals who have been wrongly convicted should receive compensation.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 05, 2012 EDT
  WHEN JUSTICE FAILS: COLLATERAL DAMAGE
  Ronald Keine

  This essay recounts the author's personal experience with wrongful conviction.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 05, 2012 EDT
  MY THREE DECADES WITH DARRYL HUNT
  Mark Rabil

  This personal reflection recounts the story of Darryl Hunt, a wrongfully convicted murderer.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 05, 2012 EDT
  THE CASEY ANTHONY TRIAL AND WRONGFUL EXONERATIONS: HOW TRIAL BY MEDIA‖CASES DIMINISH PUBLIC CONFIDENCE INTHE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
  Nicholas A. Battaglia

  This article argues that the phenomenon of a wrongful exoneration is birthed primarily through a trial by media.

• Justice Commentaries
  March 04, 2011 EDT
  DEFINING INNOCENCE
  Keith A. Findley

  This essay argues that innocence does indeed mean factual innocence and that the best we can do is rely on the legal standards that define guilt and presume innocence.

• Justice Commentaries
  March 04, 2011 EDT
  AN INVESTIGATION OF TOP-DOWN VS. BOTTOM-UP PROCESSING IN POST-APPELLATE REVIEW OF A CRIMINAL CASE
  Andrew M. SmithBrian L. CutlerKeith A. Findley

  This experiment examined the extent to which the knowledge that a case has passed pre-screening by an innocence project influences case reviewer judgment through top-down case processing.

• Justice Commentaries
  March 04, 2011 EDT
  AN INTEGRATED JUSTICE MODEL OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
  Marvin Zalman

  This article offers an interdisciplinary model of the innocence movement—the Integrated Justice Model—which complements the innocence paradigm that emerged from and has shaped the innocence movement.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2010 EDT
  WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS:UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING CRIMINAL INJUSTICE
  Jonathan Lippman

  Judge Lippman's symposium remarks.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2010 EDT
  FALSE CONFESSIONS
  Saul M. Kassin

  Professor Kassin's symposium remarks.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2010 EDT
  PROTECTING THE INNOCENT IN NEW YORK: MOVING BEYOND CHANGING ONLY THEIR NAMES
  James R. AckerCatherine L. Bonventre

  This article focuses on the findings and recommendations of the Final Report of the New York State Bar Association‘s Task Force on Wrongful Convictions.