“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy Part Two – Myths one to twenty Myth 1 – The Confession that was not a confession There never was a confession, though this is not what the […]
Junk Science? —Legal Experts Slam Reliability of Much Forensic Evidence in Criminal Trials
Certain types of forensic evidence used by prosecutors and police investigators in criminal trials may not be as reliable as we would like. In a recent Washington Post commentary, a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the dean of the UCLA School of Law sounded an alarm about […]
Jodi Arias – verdict likely to be overturned
It is looking increasingly likely that the Jodi Arias penalty retrial will end with a hung jury, the same as the first trial. Monica Lindstrom writes: “It’s possible the jury could still reach a unanimous decision, although I think it’s unlikely. If they were deadlocked before the instruction I doubt that instruction did little to […]
Italy’s Persecution of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito Recalls the Dreyfus Affair
Introduction and Premise On March 25, 2015, the case against Seattle native Amanda Knox and her one time Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, will be heard by the Italian Supreme Court in what may be the pair’s final attempt to set right a miscarriage of justice reminiscent of the infamous Dreyfus Affair of the nineteenth century. […]
The Nevada Supreme Court Again Hears Arguments in the Case of Kirstin Lobato
(Carson City, Nevada) – Last month attorneys for Kirstin Blaise Lobato presented oral arguments before the Nevada Supreme Court in the appeal of her 2006 conviction for the 2001 killing of a homeless man in Las Vegas. Lobato has now spent over 12 years in prison for a crime that virtually all close observers of […]
Death Row Exoneree Kirk Bloodsworth Joins Fight To Free Kirstin Lobato
Death row exoneree Kirk Bloodsworth made a stop in Las Vegas this past weekend to show his support for Kirstin Blaise Lobato. Bloodsworth strongly supports a petition asking Las Vegas District Attorney Steven B. Wolfson to stop blocking DNA testing in the Kirstin Lobato case. Lobato was wrongfully convicted in 2006 for the murder […]
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