Historically, the wrongfully convicted have been largely ignored in the United States, but over the past decade the landscape has been slowly shifting. New exonerations regularly flood our news feeds, making the topic difficult to ignore. A week rarely goes by without hearing the news that another victim of wrongful conviction has been set free, […]
Amanda Knox Case and The Norfolk Four Highlight Irreparable Damage Caused By Wrongful Convictions
The Norfolk Four Michelle Moore-Bosko was raped and murdered in 1997 in Norfolk, Virginia. Michelle was the wife of William Bosko of the United States Navy. Five men were convicted of the crime. Four of these men, Joseph J. Dick Jr., Derek Tice, Danial Williams, and Eric C. Wilson, were wrongly convicted. Dick, Williams, and […]
Toddler’s Road to Recovery Provides Hope After Suffering From Shaken Baby Syndrome
When Erica Hammel of St. Clair Shores, Michigan, received a call from her ex-husband the morning of November, 1, 2013, to let her know that their 1 year-old-son had been taken to the Children’s Hospital of Michigan at the Detroit Medical Center because he was breathing kind of funny, she did not know what to […]
Disbar Nevada Judge Valorie Vega
DISBAR NEVADA JUDGE VALORIE VEGA Judge Valorie Vega must be removed from office and disbarred. These actions must be taken in response to Judge Vega’a unjust, appalling, and egregious actions in the case of Ms. Kirstin Blaise Lobato, a young women unjustly convicted of and imprisoned for the murder of […]
After Seventeen Years David Thorne Continues To Wait For Justice
David Thorne was convicted on January 25, 2000, and sentenced to life without parole in Ohio, for allegedly hiring an acquaintance to kill his son’s mother Yvonne Layne in 1999. The problem is that evidence clearly shows that David Thorne is an innocent man. The appeals system in the United States operates at an incredibly slow […]
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Helped Keith Cooper To Seek His Exoneration
By Hans Sherrer October 7, 2016 Indiana Governor Mike Pence successfully goaded Keith Cooper’s lawyers to file a post-conviction petition on October 3, 2016, that seeks to overturn his 1997 robbery conviction. On September 20, 2016 Pence informed Cooper that he couldn’t consider his pardon request until he exhausted his legal options to overturn his […]
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