by Bert | May 11, 2018 | Texas
It has been a lively week in Tarrant County. Two high-profile criminal cases are back in the news, and both demonstrate the influence that false claims and Brady can play when the State is intent on winning convictions. A trial court on Tuesday recommended to the...
by Bert | Jan 16, 2018 | Texas
After years of fighting for a new trial, Dennis Lee Allen and Stanley Mozee were finally vindicated by Texas’s highest criminal court last week. For the final years of that journey, they had an unlikely companion helping them seek relief: the Dallas County District...
by Bert | Feb 23, 2017 | Louisiana
Earlier this month, the Times-Picayune published a remarkable guest column by Emily Maw, the director of the Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO). Responding to Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s angry public complaints about city officials slashing...
by Bert | May 6, 2016 | Research
Last week, the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School published a report titled “Conviction Review Units: A National Perspective.” The report focuses on the emerging trend in which district attorney offices...
by OpenFile | Oct 27, 2014 | Oregon, The Open File Blog
Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill has announced a plan to have one of his longest serving prosecutors take on a new role in the office: to review defendants’ claims of innocence and prevent future wrongful convictions. Numerous conviction...
