Innocence Project

FBI Review: Exaggerated Evidence in 27 Death Penalty Cases

August 15, 2013

The Department of Justice and the FBI are raising questions about forensic evidence used to get convictions. Twenty-seven death penalty convictions have been flagged so far as part of a federal review. The review was triggered last year by a Washington Post report and asserts that FBI hair examiners had used faulty forensics that may […]

John Grisham on ‘The Litigators,’ Writing and Criminal Justice

August 14, 2013

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

August 14, 2013Conflict & Justice

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