You may think we’re a free people, living in a free country, but the government can kill you even if you’re innocent. Our legal system, generally speaking, allows government officials to arbitrarily take your life. Our political leaders can embroil our country in a war, enact conscriptio[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Innocence Projects’
June 23rd, 2024 - 2:25 pm § in Law and Courts
Texas criminal justice screwed up again
I’ve never been to Texas, so I only have impressions of the place, mostly unfavorable. There’s the politics, of course, and a criminal justice system that’s downright frightening. Texas is the state most likely to execute an innocent person. There have been close calls, and at leas[...]
June 8th, 2022 - 4:45 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
GOP opposed this judicial nominee because she helped free innocent people
Nina Morrison, a lawyer who “spent the last 20 years being the senior litigation counsel at the New York-based Innocence Project, an organization focused on exonerating wrongly convicted people through DNA testing,” was confirmed to a federal judgeship by a 53-46 vote on Wednesday, June [...]
October 18th, 2014 - 12:36 pm § in Misc.
Another Black Youth, Coerced Confession, And Wrongful Imprisonment
David McCallum, 45, was exonerated last week after spending 28 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. McCallum was just 16 when police coerced him and a friend (who died in prison in 2001) into signing cop-written confessions filled with falsehoods and inconsistencies. The charges [...]