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Search results for "Innocence Project" ...
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Fire Mark: Did prosecutors wrongfully convict a 17-year-old of triple homicide in the 1995 blaze that killed three firefighters?
The Innocence Institute of Point Park University looked into the conviction of Greg Brown who was charged with arson in a fire that lead to the death of three firefighters. Through their reporting efforts, the Innocence Institute the fire was not started by Brown - it was cause by a natural gas leak, not arson. And that some of the main witnesses had been paid as much as $10,000 to testify.
Tags: wrongful conviction; arson; crime; Innocence Project; FOIA; ATF; Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
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I Didn't Do That Murder; New Light On Old Case
Based on questions reporter Christine Young raised in her reporting of a 1987 murder conviction, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, in a rare decision, is re-investigating the murder case of Michaelanne Hall, a prostitute brutally murdered in 1989. The man convicted for the crime, Lebrew Jones, was a mentally retarded security guard and his conviction rested on a nonsensical statement he gave to police. Now 51, Jones is awaiting DNA test results from the fingernail clippings of the murder victim. Also, a potentially viable suspect has emerged as a result of Young's work.
Tags: wrongful conviction; Manhattan medical examiner's office; prostitution; runaways; murder; DNA testing; Innocence Project; developmentally disabled
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Wrong Face, Wrong Time
Judy tells the story of an Indian-born man from Columbia, Missouri who was jailed for four months because the FBI thought he was a national security threat with ties to Al-Qaeda. Judy shows that, in fact, the FBI's assertions were drawn from a single mis-checked box on a social security form and were entirely unfounded.
Tags: homeland security; jail; prison; innocence project; FBI; terrorism
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Attack at the Silk Plant Forest
This series of stories showed that the wrong man could be in prison, and serving 29 years for assault. It also points at certain flaws in the criminal justice system. It talks about the wrongful conviction of Kalvin Smith for assaulting a pregnant woman working as a cashier. As these reporters find out, time and again law enforcers pursue their own theories of what happened and ignore more obvious inconsistencies.
Tags: wrongful conviction; innocence project; Jill Marker; Kalvin Smith; Kenneth LAmoureux; Don Williams; Edna Hoisington; Aaron Marker; assault; criminal justice system
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Deadly Decisions
"Deadly Decisions" examines how capital juries unlawfully sentence people to death --including people who are innocent -- as a result of racial bias or misunderstandings of the law. In two cases, documented in this report, defendants in Virginia were executed because judges refused to clarify juror's questions about parole.
Tags: bias jurors; capital cases; racial profiling; wrong sentencing; RADIO; CD; transcript; database mapping project