Along with the known causes of wrongful conviction of mistaken eyewitness identification, jailhouse informants, and faulty scientific evidence, Florida’s Innocence Commission has added a new leading cause: lack of adequate funding. In its 171-page final report, the 23-member commission said…
Five different independent groups have called on Michigan to reform its system for paying lawyers to represent poor defendants. Each time the state has done nothing. Finally, that may be changing due to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties…
In an article written for the San Jose Mercury News, retired judge LaDoris Cordell writes about her experience with wrongful conviction. Bobby Herrera was 17 years old when he appeared in Cordell’s courtroom charged with murder. Faced with a possible…
A New York appeals court called for a hearing into whether death threats against David Lou’s defense attorney during his 1992 murder trial caused Lou to receive ineffective assistance of counsel. Lou was convicted in 1992 of the shooting death…