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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Innocence Projects’
June 8th, 2022 - 4:45 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
GOP opposed this judicial nominee because she helped free innocent people
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 [...]