Jack Bowen is guest blogging this week at sportsfeelgoodstories.com. You can read his blog post for the week here.
Jack Bowen is guest blogging this week at sportsfeelgoodstories.com. You can read his blog post for the week here.
The violent, accidental collision early in the World Cup championship game was disturbing to watch. Christoph Kramer of Germany collided with an Argentine player, Kramer’s head snapped back upon contact, and he slumped to the ground. We see the collision…
NCIP exoneree Maurice Caldwell spoke with Santa Clara Law students, interns, and volunteers today about his wrongful conviction story and his current efforts to spread awareness about the infractions in our justice system that ultimately lead to wrongful convictions. Along…
The State Bar of Texas has decided it will try former Burleson County District Attorney Charles Sebesta before an administrative judge to determine whether Sebesta will receive punitive action for his role in wrongfully sentencing exoneree Anthony Graves to death…
On September 11, the Santa Clara University Institute of Sports Law and Ethics (ISLE) will present a symposium that will focus in part on match-fixing. Internationally acclaimed journalist Declan Hill will be the featured speaker for that portion of the…
Michael Morton, who spent 25 years behind bars in Texas for the wrongful murder conviction of his wife, will release his memoir, “Getting Life: An Innocence Man’s 25-Year Journey From Prison to Peace” on Tuesday. In 1986, Morton’s wife Christine…
Trending in the world of #WorldCup2014 more than almost any other topic is the moral condemnation of players feigning injury in order to deceive the referee thus garnering a free kick, aka, “flopping.” Americans seem disgusted by it. Even our…
The recent death of Tony Gwynn, by all accounts one of the classiest men in baseball and also a long-time user of smokeless tobacco, put the issue of smokeless tobacco use in the major leagues squarely on the radar of…
Nearly 200 people attended the Northern California Innocence Project’s (NCIP) Eyewitness Identification Best Practices Symposium at the University of San Francisco (USF) on May 21, 2014. The symposium, sponsored by a Flom Incubator Grant from the Skadden Fellowship Foundation, brought…
Perhaps like many of you, I was watching yesterday’s Uruguay vs. Italy World Cup match when, with just a few minutes to go in a 0-0 game that Uruguay needed to win in order to advance, I was shocked to…