Tag Archive for ‘innocence’
30 Years for a Rape He Never Committed
Rape, genuine rape, in which the right perpetrator has been charged, tried and convicted, belongs at the top of society’s most heinous crimes. It’s hardly an accident that judges and juries have a tendency to rush to judgment once they are convinced that the correct person is on trial. The problems arise when the evidence [...]
Why we like the Innocence Project
This is not a perfect organization. Not too many are. But the enduring — founded in 1992 — strength of the Innocence Project is its absolute refusal to write off people or cases as lost causes. And circumstantial evidence, malicious media reporting and horrendous police work, not to mention inadequate legal representation, can make some of these cases look pretty hopeless.