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Mar 15, 2021 · Faulty Forensics and Wrongful Convictions, by Matthew Clarke; Seventh Circuit Affirms Vacatur of Death Sentence Based on Newly Discovered Evidence of Defendant’s Intellectual Disability, by Douglas Ankney; Machinery of Death: When the Government Acts as Judge, Jury and Executioner, by John W. Whitehead
Dec 13, 2023 · The history of a monumental forensic tool and the ethical debate sparked by wrongful convictions based on trace DNA evidence. Tiny Matters December 13, 2023. A warning to listeners — this episode contains sensitive material surrounding homicide and assault.
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Oct 1, 2014 · DNA exonerations represent only a fraction of all wrongful convictions. Confessions have proved false in other ways as well—as when it turns out that the confessed crime was never committed; when new evidence shows it was physically impossible for the confessor to have committed the crime; when the real perpetrator is captured; and when other non-DNA evidence establishes the confessor’s ...
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Jul 23, 2019 · Prosecutors in St. Louis said in an explosive set of charges that an innocent St. Louis man was wrongly convicted of murder in 1995 after police fabricated trial evidence and prosecutors hid information from defense attorneys. by Emily Hoerner July 23, 2019.
For example, a witness’s testimony that he saw the defendant shoot the victim would be direct evidence of the actus reus of murder. By contrast, a different witness’s testimony that she saw the defendant fleeing the crime scene shortly after she heard gunshots would be circumstantial evidence.
Dec 8, 2023 · Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk was convicted of seven murders of patients in 2004, based on ostensible statistical evidence. While convincing to a jury, it also appalled statistical experts , who ...
Nov 15, 2021 · This became integral in one particular case of wrongful conviction based on faulty toolmark analysis. Patrick Pursley spent 23 years in in Illinois prison for a 1993 murder before being acquitted at a new trial in 2019. [10] The only physical evidence matching Pursely to the crime was a firearm found in his possession.
