The Federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled in the two cases from Massachusetts in a single opinion unanimously holding that DOMA is unconstitutional. This is the first appellate decision to so hold. What does this mean…
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The Federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled in the two cases from Massachusetts in a single opinion unanimously holding that DOMA is unconstitutional. This is the first appellate decision to so hold. What does this mean…
Brian Banks, who was on his way to a big future in football before he was wrongfully convicted of rape in 2002, is getting a second shot at his dream. Banks, 26, was exonerated last week and so far, four…
Today’s decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on the Defense of Marriage Act – Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Gill v. OPM – found it unconstitutional to deny…
Retired federal judge and NCIP Justice Award recipient H. Lee Sarokin opines on why defendants, like recently exonerated Brian Banks, would plead guilty when they are innocent. Sarokin blames what he calls the “Ins of Court – intimidation by the…
In 2002, Brian Banks, a 17 year old high school football star with a promising future, was convicted of a kidnap-rape by a fellow female classmate. With still no DNA evidence and a recantation by the alleged victim, the charges…
This morning in Washington, Secretary of State Clinton released the State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011. The Reports can be read country-by-country, region-by-region, and issue-by-issue across countries. There are also appendices, one listing major international human…
Michael Crowe and a friend were declared factually innocent on Tuesday in the 1998 murder of Crowe’s sister. Michael Crowe was 14 when he was arrested and charged of the stabbing death of his sister Stephanie, at the family home in…
The Center for Science, Technology, and Society, The Food an Agribusiness Institute, and the High Tech Law Institute is proud to host Richard Jefferson, CEO of Cambia. Dr. Jefferson has been named by Scientific American to the List of the…
NCIP exoneree Franky Carrillo was interviewed by Al Sharpton yesterday on Politics Nation. View the video on our Facebook page! http://on.fb.me/MHvTbA www.ncip.scu.edu
A new study conducted by the University of Michigan Law School and the Center for Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Law School reports that more than 2,000 people have been wrongly convicted since 1989. The new archive lists 873 exonerated defendants…