False Confessions

https://innocenceproject.org/lack-of-police-accountability-contributes-to-wrongful-conviction/?fbclid=IwAR3jiLUn8b9xRCvx2Wfy_nYBqYL1n3eEKUbXdk9AnBcZHMApUf7BP0vaqKA

3 Ways Lack of Police Accountability Contributes to Wrongful Convictions The current system offers more protections for guilty police officers than innocent citizens.

https://www.bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-i-was-imprisoned-murder-unjustly-its-time-fix-system?fbclid=IwAR06JUHuPqU54B0EGLws015xN4ab0JYw2aV-8YQiCfoFU9bWPodisOqsTGY

Opinion | I was imprisoned for murder unjustly. It’s time to fix the system | Bridge Michigan A bill now in the Michigan Legislature would make it easier for defendants to see police misconduct records.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ny-murder-convictions-vacated-24-years/2021/03/05/d4b2ef16-7db7-11eb-85cd-9b7fa90c8873_story.html

Judge frees men imprisoned for 24 years, saying prosecutors withheld evidence The 1996 slaying of a New York police officer and another man was pursued aggressively, with then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani vowing that justice would be served swiftly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/exonerated-five-false-confessions.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Opinion | We Are the ‘Exonerated 5.’ What Happened to Us Isn’t Past, It’s Present. Deceptive interrogations and false confessions are all too common. New York can stop them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/09/16/more-than-half-all-wrongful-criminal-convictions-caused-by-government-misconduct-study-finds/

More than half of all wrongful criminal convictions are caused by government misconduct, study finds Many factors contribute to wrongful convictions of people, including withholding evidence or false identifications, but science and innocence advocates are making progress, the study says.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/11/25/arrested-teens-three-men-are-expected-be-exonerated-after-years-behind-bars-wrongful-murder-conviction/

Arrested as teens, three men are set to be exonerated after 36 years behind bars for wrongful murder conviction After receiving a handwritten plea from one of the men, Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's office took only six months to determine that city police and prosecutors covered up evidence pointing to another gunman.

https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2019/11/14/now-we-see-you-the-reid-technique-and-when-they-see-us/

Now We See You: The Reid Technique and ‘When They See Us’ | New York Law Journal Reid never has acknowledged an uncomfortable truth that this lawsuit may expose if Duvernay and Netflix win: that is, that the Reid Technique, whether used correctly or incorrectly, can cause incalculable harm to innocent people and to justice itself.

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/11/12/man-exonerated-armed-robberies-da/?fbclid=IwAR1eryk8DFF-Y8WBgzJ5UDxXj6FdfuZEC1ane3S6eW7znmP8Jq7wV2L14kg #.XcyivcdQPeQ.facebook

New Evidence Exonerates Man 11 Years After Wrongful Conviction For Armed Robberies In Boyle Heights Martinez Jr. was wrongfully convicted in 2008 for a series of armed robberies in Boyle Heights.

https://www.ebony.com/news/man-convicted-mother-murder-exonerated-20-years/

Man Convicted in Mother’s Murder Exonerated After 20 Years in Prison Huwe Burton was pardoned in Bronx Supreme Court for the stabbing murder of his mother in 1989 after serving 20 years in jail.

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/577639/send-me-home/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_term=2019-09-09T23%3A04%3A29&fbclid=IwAR219oXpnjsB8TQhcG8olQRbIktc4CyXFqMykQPOtXSXkmaGMvZ9VU5J7p4

He Served the Longest Sentence of Any Innocent U.S. Inmate A man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 40 years shares how he maintained his identity.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article233995717.html?fbclid=IwAR3xGSnXtiLXlLpFJqbVLwwOI_H4dl59KTSJpcenoHQvjQYCOZV50QxmBGc

Man in prison for 1996 double murder in Kansas City is innocent, judge rules A court has ordered Ricky Kidd, convicted in 1996 of a double homicide in Kansas City, to be released or retried within 30 days. A judge in Dekalb County said in an order that evidence of Ricky Kidd’s innocence is “clear and convincing.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/01/he-was-just-freed-after-years-murder-someone-else-confessed-years-ago/?utm_term=.3a0746b26dda

He was just freed after 21 years — for a murder someone else confessed to 17 years ago The case was flawed from the start.